Our mission as faculty at San Jacinto College is to ensure student success, create continuous transitions, and enrich the quality of life in the communities we serve. To achieve student success, we all place the needs of students at the center of our planning, policies and academic and service programs, converting this in one of the core values and mission of San Jacinto College. Consequently, just to mention an example, the Aspen College Excellence Program has named San Jacinto College as one of the 150 best community colleges eligible to compete for the Aspen Community Excellence Award. Due to this fact, and many other reasons, I consider it a great honor to be a Spanish teacher in this educational institution. In the following paragraphs,
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To achieve this, I rely on many activities involving critical thinking and a total physical response by the student. Instead of simply reading about salsa and listening to music, my students dance the steps and sing the songs, participating in the action as they learn both the knowledge of Spanish language and the elements of the Latino culture. Through this type of active participation, students learn and form their own opinions and knowledge base. I define my approach to teaching the foreign language as rationalist, as I encourage critical thinking and desire among students to …show more content…
To me, technology is one of the most important tools an effective teacher can use in the classroom to address different learning styles, to create a productive learning environment, and to increase student motivation. I request to teach half of my semester in our language laboratory, because this is the best way to have a multimedia room for classes. At present I am teaching a computer based course (hybrid course), the website for my Spanish class is Vista HL, that enables students to participate in a very interactive Spanish class, to watch grammar and vocabulary tutorials, to complete individually their assigned task, to post videos and pictures about different class topics and collaborate with their peers in common
To achieve this, I rely on many activities involving critical thinking and a total physical response by the student. Instead of simply reading about salsa and listening to music, my students dance the steps and sing the songs, participating in the action as they learn both the knowledge of Spanish language and the elements of the Latino culture. Through this type of active participation, students learn and form their own opinions and knowledge base. I define my approach to teaching the foreign language as rationalist, as I encourage critical thinking and desire among students to …show more content…
To me, technology is one of the most important tools an effective teacher can use in the classroom to address different learning styles, to create a productive learning environment, and to increase student motivation. I request to teach half of my semester in our language laboratory, because this is the best way to have a multimedia room for classes. At present I am teaching a computer based course (hybrid course), the website for my Spanish class is Vista HL, that enables students to participate in a very interactive Spanish class, to watch grammar and vocabulary tutorials, to complete individually their assigned task, to post videos and pictures about different class topics and collaborate with their peers in common