THIS CLASS IS NOT LIMITED TO TEACHERS; ALL ARE WELCOME

This course is designed for anyone who interacts with native Spanish speakers, whether in schools, community settings, or travel. If you’re comfortable with basic conversational Spanish—including the sound system, common expressions, present-tense conjugations, and commands—you’re ready for this next step. 

You’ll build confidence using Spanish in conversations, improve your grammar across multiple tenses, and gain insight into cultural and linguistic factors that impact communication. Activities include written practice, peer discussions, and engaging activities that will really get you speaking.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Students will accurately decode Spanish text, using correct pronunciation and accentuation.
• Students will converse with a partner in Spanish about a variety of personally relevant topics, demonstrating listening comprehension and accurately conveying meaning.
• Students will speak and write in grammatically correct sentences utilizing the present, preterite, imperfect, future and conditional tenses, in addition to temporal, locational and directional prepositions.
• Students will prepare and present a lesson in Spanish that is appropriate for teaching to a student or students’ family member.
• Students will gain an understanding of linguistic and cultural differences that will help them better accommodate and communicate with their native Spanish-speaking students and their families.