Spanish (SPAN)

SPAN 5943. Spanish Workshop for Educators. This workshop focuses on the special needs and situations confronted by principals, administrators, teachers, and researchers when dealing with Hispanic students and their parents inside the schools or around their environment. It can be useful for non-native speakers of Spanish who wish to improve their knowledge of the language. The workshop focuses on language development about fundamentals of educational organization and policy, behavior, culture, and processes. The idea of the workshop is to help administrators, educators, and researchers to improve communication and gain a better understanding of the research data they can be expected to encounter in their professional practice within any Hispanic community. It is accomplished through a wide variety of opportunities to learn administrative and orientation vocabulary with grammatical structures, used in elementary, intermediate, and advanced contexts. Functions and processes unique to teachers are developed through a very communicative approach. Useful tips and ideas on how to deal with specific topics in the Spanish classroom will be provided.