[ola] Re: Teaching words/phrases for circumlocution and for staying in spanish.
- From: Herr Grobey <herr.grobey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 18:41:40 -0800
Andrew, I fight this also. I see the kids for 90 mins every other day. I
like to use the stop sign-police analogy, that some folks will always stop
at a stop sign as part of the social contract, but some won't unless
threatened with a ticket from the police. So I dock points when they
persist after polite and jovial reminders.
But count it up and they get 3-4.5 hours of Spanish in one week. Compare
that to what a child gets before 1st grade. 100% is essential. But I try
to break it up some, and most of the English occurs on transitions to
writing or other activities.
Keep the faith. I am starting to see kids adhere to the expectations
without as much pressure from me, and they are beginning to realize that
they can do it.
Tod
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Dan- That was awsome. I still have a few kids who tell me that they can't
> circumlocute and are shy about participating. This will really help them.
>
> Andrew- Last year, someone on on the listserve created a list of useful
> circumlocution starters. I made them bigger, printed them out on colorful
> cardstock, and have put them around my room. I teach different levels, so
> some are a little more advanced, but you could easily sort out the more
> advanced ones only post the simple ones for now, then add others as the
> year goes on. If I were to do it again, I would use different colors for
> easy, med and adv ones. You could also do a lesson with one, where they
> practice it first, then add it to the wall.
>
> Not all of the kids use these yet, but I have seen many kids looking
> around and using some of them when they are stuck.
>
> I have attached the document
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Call Daniel <dcall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Drew,
>>
>> I taught circumlocution strategies to my students a couple of weeks ago,
>> and it went fairly well. I put together this prezi that you’d be welcome
>> to use. It sets them up with some basic categories for circumlocution, and
>> then gives them the chance to practice, first with a script, then without.
>> Hope this helps out.
>>
>> http://prezi.com/c9sz0hgigl0e/la-circunlocucion/#<http://prezi.com/c9sz0hgigl0e/la-circunlocucion/>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Call
>>
>> Franklin Pierce High School
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *Andrew Van Wagenen
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 02, 2013 1:53 PM
>> *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [ola] Teaching words/phrases for circumlocution and for
>> staying in spanish.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> As a first year teacher and also my first year implementing OLA I'm
>> fighting an uphill battle of having the expectation that my Span 1 and Span
>> 2 classes stay in Spanish for 90 minutes. I want to give them some more
>> tools/strategies to help them stay in Spanish. Does anyone have any
>> positive ways to support kids speaking spanish or any phrases or ways of
>> teaching circumlocution so they just don't blurt out things in Spanish.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is requiring 90 minutes of Spanish from YR 1 students too much? What has
>> been other's experiences. With participation and language use being 40% of
>> their grade I feel like i'm constantly having negative interaction with
>> kids because i'm docking them points for using english in class.
>>
>>
>>
>> Responses can be sent to andrew.vanwagenen@xxxxxxxxx Thanks everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Drew
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *Andrew Van Wagenen *
>> Profesor de Español
>>
>> Department of World Languages
>>
>> Corner Canyon High School
>>
>>
>>
>> andrew.vanwagenen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> andrewvanwagenen.blogspot.com
>>
>
>
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T. Grobey
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