What Steven Lopez likes about choice and student lead activities is that it allows his students to bring their interests, hobbies, abilities and passions into the classroom and the community. Steven walks us through what he does and shares examples of several units. (See the show notes) While giving choice to students can seem overwhelming, Steven makes it manageable and, bonus points, more interesting to grade.

Bio

I have been teaching Spanish in New York for 14 years. I grew up in NYC and studied at University at Albany (BA in Spanish, MS in Secondary Education) and Middlebury College (MA in Spanish). I have traveled and lived through Spain and Latin America and can also can communicate in Brazilian Portuguese and French (both at the intermediate level). I try to live a very healthy and active lifestyle and have also worked as a fitness instructor for over 11 years. In my free time I often go to the theater and wonderful museums in NYC

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Show Runner: Jennifer Germanaud

Mentions:

National Boards https://www.nbpts.org/

Choice Boards Example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NCaG0j2PDaJXtP_u7uDkuTA3FXrtq4qxsHnoM53dNFY/edit

Rubric for the choice boards https://docs.google.com/document/d/14YWLFaZXnc9smSvlvpoa-W-BeDoZHDctWqWVvbYNsAc/edit

José Martí Cuban nationalist , poet, philosopher essayist, journalist

Ana Belén Montes documentary choices https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VbuuXUo9qYQfBbW0nBdWXuYxRabQX6M2dWluaC4yXWQ/edit

Una maestra en botas, duolingo podcast Episode 51 https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-51-una-maestra-en-botas-a-teacher-in-army-boots

El Chacal and Hasta siempre Comandate (songs with Lyrics and comprehension activities) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nuK_LeaCv15uS5GjqMBCrmN66DgBzAIsQkLTanKsUMA/edit

La Jungle painting by Wifredo Lam

Sensemayà by Nicolàs Guillén

The Cuba Libre Story (Netflix)

Casa Dividida by Chris Mercer

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith

Podcast: Charlas Hispanas https://charlashispanas.com/

Blooms Taxonomy of Verbs in Spanish https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NCaG0j2PDaJXtP_u7uDkuTA3FXrtq4qxsHnoM53dNFY/edit

Steven Lopez Student Survey https://docs.google.com/document/d/12aAkFgKA-nLR-No55sgy9T9hvxv2k_ONPAa10bwCJ1s/edit?usp=sharing