Spanish Language for Educators Level 2
About the Course
This course is for all school personnel who interact with native Spanish-speaking students and/or their families. It is also appropriate for non-educators who want to learn intermediate-level language structures and practice their skills in conversation.
This class is the sequel to Spanish for Educators, Level 1, though the prior course is not a prerequisite. It is applicable for any student with an understanding of the Spanish sound system, basic conversational expressions, and conjugations in the present tense, including commands.
Students in this class will practice using vocabulary and language structures in written assignments that they will share in safe, supported conversation with class peers. In addition to learning to communicate with students and their families in their native language, teachers will learn about linguistic and cultural factors that can affect ELD students’ academic access.
Participants in this course will be required to attend IN-PERSON classes at the Boulder Valley Education Association office.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Accurately decode Spanish text, using correct pronunciation and accentuation.
- Converse with a partner in Spanish about a variety of personally relevant topics, demonstrating listening comprehension and accurately conveying meaning.
- Speak and write in grammatically correct sentences utilizing the present, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional tenses, in addition to temporal, locational and directional prepositions.
- Prepare and present a lesson in Spanish that is appropriate for teaching to a student or students’ family member.
- Explain linguistic and cultural differences that will help them better accommodate and communicate with their native Spanish-speaking students and their families.
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