Spanish for Teachers: Help your LEP Students succeed!
Spanish for Educators provides some basic, yet specific Spanish skills to help you manage your classroom and give clear direction to your limited English students, you can help make their transition into an English speaking classroom much more achievable.
Year after year we have more Spanish only students in our schools working hard to fit in with their classmates and succeed in school. The goal of our Spanish for Educators classes is to help educators communicate effectively in Spanish with students and parents who are not yet fluent in English. Whether you choose to provide Spanish for Educators training during your School District’s Summer Teacher Trainings, on teacher workshop days, Summer Spanish Immersion programs in Costa Rica, or at another convenient time in the year, we will customize these Spanish for Educators classes to fit the unique needs of your school.
Spanish Classes for Teachers
Weekly Spanish lessons for Teachers
Spanish immersion trips for Teachers
Spanish immersion for Teachers in Central and South America
2-weeks total trip length
2-6 weeks in length; you choose the weeks between June 29 and August 10, 2019
2-3 weeks in length
*All programs in Nicaragua are currently paused pending resolutions to political unrest. Contact Us if you would like to discuss.
Group Spanish Classes for Teachers:
Like all of Common Ground International’s Spanish classes, these class are dynamic, conversational, and provide you with practical Spanish skills to help you manage typical classroom situations.
The Beginning I & Beginning 2 Spanish for Teachers courses help you:
- Communicate classroom rules and behavior expectations
- Express curriculum objectives to students and their parents
- Learn Spanish vocabulary for the classroom (classroom objects, etc.).
- Explain student schedules, classroom subjects and times
- Report incidents to parents
- Make phone calls home
- Discuss evaluations and assessments with parents
- Negotiate Parent-Teacher conferences
- Learn Latino cultural norms and its views on education
to bring Spanish for Teachers courses to your school!
Online Spanish Classes for Teachers
Choose between pre-packaged online courses that you take on your own time and own schedule or 1:1 online courses with our instructors in Costa Rica
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Maestro Miércoles – Stem-changing Verbs in Spanish
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Maestro Miércoles – Irregular Verbs in The Present Tense in Spanish
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Maestro Miércoles – How To Use The Gender and Articles in Spanish
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Spanish for Educators: School Schedules and Subjects in Spanish
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Culture and Education: Daily Routines at School in Costa Rica
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Culture and Education: Private vs Public Education in Costa Rica
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Culture and Education: Educational System in Costa Rica
Interview in Spanish with Emily (special ed teacher) and doña Sandra about the educational system in Costa Rica This is the first of several interviews Emily had with doña Sandra about Latino culture, perspectives and practices in education in Costa Rica. This video is 100% in Spanish with Spanish subtitles for improved…
Maestro Miércoles – 15 Prepositions of Place in Spanish
This Maestro Miércoles lesson focuses on learning 15 Prepositions of Place in Spanish: Preposiciones de lugar. The objective of this Spanish lesson is for educators to learn how to explain to students where to put classroom objects and direct students about where things go in the classroom. How many times do you get asked…
Spanish for Educators: Basic Vocabulary to Kick off the School Year
This Maestro Miércoles lesson focuses on learning basic vocabulary in Spanish to start having dialogues with your Latino students and/or parents & guardians. Su reto profesional: start using these survival phrases in Spanish with your Latino students and/or parents & tutors during this new school year. ¡No tema empezar a hablar en español! Here…
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