Comments on: Spanish Teachers – Suggestions needed! http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/ Learn Spanish with Spanish podcast audio. This is real, exciting conversation from Spain. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jason Keuter http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-7069 Jason Keuter Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:26:25 +0000 http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/#comment-7069 in all seriousness, the best solution to a passive student is to ask them questions - in Spanish! - and keep doing it until you can get answers....in Spanish. Usually, any answer that indicates understanding will suffice..including one word answers. The natural progression in learning any language begins with listening comprehension, and that phase lasts a very long time. The more you address the students in the target language and the more you respond with further questions to each of their responses in the target language, the more they will learn. in all seriousness, the best solution to a passive student is to ask them questions – in Spanish! – and keep doing it until you can get answers….in Spanish. Usually, any answer that indicates understanding will suffice..including one word answers. The natural progression in learning any language begins with listening comprehension, and that phase lasts a very long time. The more you address the students in the target language and the more you respond with further questions to each of their responses in the target language, the more they will learn.

]]> By: Jason Keuter http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-4680 Jason Keuter Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:28:40 +0000 http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/#comment-4680 Actually Steve, you learned in two days what most teachers fail to learn in 20 years. That would make you a GOOD teacher, as you use words like "students" and "learn" in the same sentence. A bureaucrat passing themselves off as a teacher (and I am one) must buy into the laughable notion that it is the teacher's job to motivate a student. The best thing to do in the situation you describe is to pacify the majority and teach to the minority - or demand that schools be privatized, so that students who wish to learn can unencumbered by those who will not or can't. So all you teachers out there : wake up and smell the day old coffee. Actually Steve, you learned in two days what most teachers fail to learn in 20 years. That would make you a GOOD teacher, as you use words like “students” and “learn” in the same sentence. A bureaucrat passing themselves off as a teacher (and I am one) must buy into the laughable notion that it is the teacher’s job to motivate a student.

The best thing to do in the situation you describe is to pacify the majority and teach to the minority – or demand that schools be privatized, so that students who wish to learn can unencumbered by those who will not or can’t.

So all you teachers out there : wake up and smell the day old coffee.

]]> By: Steve http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-3138 Steve Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:53:15 +0000 http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/#comment-3138 After I graduated from college with a Spanish major I was a substitute teacher at my old high school for 2 days. It seemed like nobody was interested in learning Spanish except for the AP students. I tried to bring in some good spanish music thinking that would make it more fun but that didn't seem to work either. Maybe I'm just a bad teacher haha. After I graduated from college with a Spanish major I was a substitute teacher at my old high school for 2 days. It seemed like nobody was interested in learning Spanish except for the AP students. I tried to bring in some good spanish music thinking that would make it more fun but that didn’t seem to work either. Maybe I’m just a bad teacher haha.

]]> By: Neil http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-3080 Neil Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:42:42 +0000 http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/#comment-3080 Molly -- Thanks for letting us know about Yabla. ¡Es súper! Molly — Thanks for letting us know about Yabla. ¡Es súper!

]]> By: Molly http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/comment-page-1/#comment-3059 Molly Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:36:17 +0000 http://www.notesinspanish.com/2007/02/20/spanish-teachers-suggestions-needed/#comment-3059 Check out the website http://lomastv.yabla.com/. It has videos which are subtitled in English and Spanish. The videos deal with cultural and political topics all over the Spanish Speaking World. A notation of the Spanish level is provided with the name of the video. There are also games to test your comprehension. If you sign up as a teacher, you can track your student' progress as they complete different games. Hope this helps. Check out the website http://lomastv.yabla.com/. It has videos which are subtitled in English and Spanish. The videos deal with cultural and political topics all over the Spanish Speaking World. A notation of the Spanish level is provided with the name of the video. There are also games to test your comprehension. If you sign up as a teacher, you can track your student’ progress as they complete different games. Hope this helps.

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