Career & Self Development
The first artifact that I chose is a presentation I made with a variety of text sets that I would use in my future classroom to teach about the Spanish speaking countries. This lesson is intended for Native Spanish Speakers II class, the ages range from 16-18 since it will be taught at a high school. I selected six different text sets for the lesson. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to recognize the location of the Spanish speaking countries on the map and their forms of greetings. This will ensure that students communicate appropriately with others. Students will also understand how one communicates, depending on who they are speaking to and the environment that they are in.
This project allowed me to gain skills of building a student’s knowledge through a variety of different text sets and how to allow students to think at a deeper level. It also allowed me to gain knowledge on how to make an engaging lesson by using a variety of text sets and making lessons personal to the students with role, audience, format, and topic (RAFT.) Using this strategy will allow my students to think critically while interpreting different texts and see different perspectives. Having experienced this is essential as a future teacher because it will provide me with a visual for the teaching process and improve the quality of the lesson. It will also allow me to have a clear understanding of goals of instruction, time management, clarifying learning objectives, and knowing the strategies that I will use to achieve the learning goals. While working on this project, I learned that it is essential to have a variety of different text sets for students because it will allow them to be more engaged rather than having them read articles all the time.
Through this, I learned that my goal as a teacher is to create culturally and linguistically diverse students in my classroom by providing them with different text sets so they are able to see different points of view. In my future career as a Spanish teacher, I will ensure that my students are able to build their background knowledge on a given topic through videos, podcasts, images, and written text.