Spanish Teaching Philosophy

Berta Gutierrez

My philosophy of teaching

I teach my Spanish Class in a dynamic way, I want for my students is to actively participate, rather than passively learning. I have created an active learning environment engaging the students and makig the content more enjoyable and comprehensible.

I personally based my lessons on:

a. Dialogue and discussions among the students, reinforcing life-long learning.

b. My own language learning experience as an adult, I share with my students some personal anecdotal stories of my struggles and accomplishment as a second language learner. At the same time, I include some effective learning methods and ways to study and learn a new language.

c. Implementations of a students-centered learning environment, in my classroom this step occurs within cooperative and collaborative group work. This strategy has worked for me over the years, reinforcing and developing a strong student-to- student and instructor-to-students relationships, at the same time establish an honest and sincere communications in my classroom.

d. Psychomotor and cognitive

I encourage the students to find and discuss facts about the Spanish speaking countries. In resume my goals in teaching Spanish are best achieved by creating and active and learning environment. As I mentioned before, my lessons are based on dialogue and discussion instead of long lectures and instructor directed learning.

My assignments/homework’s/classwork are more reflective and analytical rather then narrative. My desire is to connect language and cultural content concepts to student’s live experience in order to keep their interest in the subject. Students are more enthusiastic to engage in a subject if they believe the topic is important to