building community through language learning glastonbury public schools
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Building Community through Language Learning Glastonbury Public Schools. www.foreignlanguage.org. Presenters Rebecca Comenale Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School [email protected] Meghan Zingle Spanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High School [email protected] - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Building Community through Language Learning
Glastonbury Public Schools
www.foreignlanguage.org
PresentersRebecca ComenaleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected] ZingleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High [email protected]
Partner teacherPatty SilveySpanish teacher/ Hopewell [email protected]
Rita OleksakDirector Foreign Languages and ELL/Glastonbury Public [email protected]
Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities.
Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects.
Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students.
Aims of the project
Background
Understanding by DesignEssential questions
• Spanish 6-How are we transformed by our study of languages and cultures?
• Spanish 3rd grade-What do learn from our global community?
FLES program
History of book project
How we got started
Joint objective between three teachers across two grade levels (3rd and 12th grades)
“Grand plans”Successes and challenges
Activity #1
“¡Hola amigos!”
Information from "mi amigo"
Activity #2
Book recording“Books on tape”
Activity #3
Games designed around 1st-3rd grade units of study
Activity #4
Seniors wrote books through collaboration with 3rd graders
Activity #5
Ideas and suggestions
Our Funding
•District Foreign Language Budget
(Glastonbury Public Schools)
•PTSO Grant
(Parent Teacher Student Organization supporting Glastonbury High School.)
•NADSFL
(National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages)