I will be a Spanish teacher in about a year. I'm taking my education classes right now, and we always talk about teacher-efficacy (the idea that a teacher can get ALL students to learn). Here's my idea..tell me if it is good, will it work?, or is it too juvenile for the highschool level???: since 1st year Spanish is basically like kindergarten...but in Spanish, would it be a good idea to have my class (within limits) think of it as kindergarten? I don't mean that we will be coloring and having nap time, but if I tell them that it is like kindergarten..learning to read, knowing the abc's, #'s, etc I think it will trigger them to think "well kindergarten was easy, I CAN do this" I want them to know that they CAN do well in my class, but I'm affraid that if I make this analogy of kindergarten that they will take it lightly or in a childish way. Any feedback..suggestions?
2006-08-03
07:58:46
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hambone1985
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