Teaching demonstration

Lesson Description

This video was filmed in my subterranean classroom on 02/22/2022 at the Orange County School of the Arts. This is my block 1, Spanish 3 class of 9-11th graders and they were awesome in this video! Was I awesome too? Find out by clicking on the video and see me conduct about 30 minutes of class. My objective was to reinforce some recent new vocabulary through personalized questions and answers (PQA), then use that vocab to discuss communication between the protagonist of our class text and her friends in Spain. We talk about saying offensive things and repairing relationships as a result.

Highlights of this video include:

• How I use PQA

• My rapport with students

• How I deal with unexpected student comments

• How I talk about communication and relationships

• Some of the limitations of my Spanish

• How I attempt to make it comprehensible

Welcome to my classroom! It is small but cozy and it is a shared space between myself and the Classical Voice conservatory, hence the music staff whiteboard and baby grand piano. Shown here are my free reading library, some word walls, maps and some examples of student work.