Videos of classroom instruction

Here you can see video of my classroom instruction. Please take note of classroom management techniques including: rejoinders, redirection, proximity, and positive reinforcement, to name a few. Also note L2 acquisition techniques including: modified speech patterns, repetition, recasting, and leveled questioning, to name a few.

Reading Strategy - Corrida de los dados (Running of the dice)

This is an example of the many different strategies to turn a simple reading into a fun, engaging game for students with a little bit of competition. For this particular activity, students are put into groups of two to three at similar skill levels. Students are provided a cloze reading with or without a word bank. In this particular example they were provided a summary of a their class novel, but it can also be a reading they are not familiar with, depending and the level of difficulty you want for the activity. All students have a copy of the reading but their is only one die and one writing utensil. One student is reading and filling in the answers of the cloze activity while another student is rolling the die, trying to get a six. Once they do, they take the pencil and begin filling in the reading while the third student rolls the die. The first student in the group to correctly fill in all answers wins.