Hello everyone,
I look forward to working with all of you. My name is Jose Garcia and I am currently a Spanish Teacher in district 204. I teach Spanish 3 and 4 honors at Waubonsie Valley high school and this will be my 14th year. We have been pretty lucky at WV to provide all the students with a chromebook or as the students call it "chromie".
I have used a wide array of applications, but mainly google. I would like to see what other options I may have that is not google related. I was forced to learn quickly how to create videos and other online video tools during the quarantine but feel like I just scratched the surface. I would like to see how I can develop my skills through these classes.
As a long time soccer coach for WV it would be great to incorporate some technology into my training sessions. I have seen some creative ways to train online and would be interested in how someone can accomplish this.
Finally, I enjoy technology but do miss the one on one communication with my students. Especially with a world language class where verbal communication is essential for fluency. If I can engage my students in a new and exciting way, I am all for it.
Hi Jose,
ReplyDeleteIt's nice hearing your perspective on remote instruction as a foreign language teacher. I'm an elementary ELL teacher, and most of my kids need to develop their oral language skills. I have found Flipgrids to be an effective way for my students to verbally communicate with me when we are not live together. It can't replace the back and forth of a conversation, but it is better than nothing! I'm looking forward to learning with you in this class!
Hi Jose,
ReplyDeleteI'm sure being a foreign language teacher during these times is especially challenging since you rely so much on discussion and conversing with students. Have you found any tools in particular that are helping you with this? I love that you would like to incorporate more technology tools into your coaching as well. I'm sure there are some amazing resources out there!
Hola! I'm so excited that there are several ELL teachers and Spanish teachers here. Like you I feel that in the spring we were kind of figuring what we needed to get done day by day. Now I feel we have a better sense and should be able to take advantage of the technology to make connections with our students. I agree with Persis, Flipgrid can be very fun to use. Also Adobe Spark can be fun to create short videos with narration, so you can hear them talking if they don't want to be on camera themselves. They can use pictures to narrate a story.
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Hello Jose,
ReplyDeleteIt is understandable that you would miss the in person aspect of teaching but great that you are embracing using technology and looking for more ways to leverage it for instruction in your classroom and coaching. Hopefully we can back to some/more synchronous learning. I think the knowledge gained from this experience will help improve teaching and learning going forward.
Karen
Hi Jose! Good to meet you. I teach science in district 203 and it seems we started teaching the same year. I think we are all feeling stretched to new heights (and depths) in levering technology to teach our students this year. I can imagine that it's hard to work on development of speaking skills with your students via Zoom.
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