🔨Student Projects

I like when students can show what they learn by using multiple online tools. In this project, students have to create an infographic using Canva. This is better than having students students create a poster. Canva is an online tool that students enjoy using and can make them feel more confident about their creative skills given how easy it is to navigate the website. This can be used for any topic or unit of instruction. It can be used as both formative or summative assessment. For instance, if you want to evaluate how much your students learned in class, have them create a 3-2-1 infographic. 

I like it when I use tools that students are familiar with. Teachers are now competing for students' attention with online platforms. One of the hidden principles of this project is that students can use the same medium that distracts them from school work to do school work. In this project, students create a time-lapse recipe video and speak Spanish-learned phrases throughout the entire video. 

According to Dewey, the curriculum must be about the student’s interests and experiences. Dewey suggested that learning is more meaningful for students when it encourages them to use their knowledge and understanding to make connections with the real world. 

This is both a project and a field trip. Students bring their understanding and Spanish-speaking skills outside of the classroom. This is one way to make learning more practical and less about learning how to do "classroom-work". 

This is the second part of a two-week project. For this part, students create a number of resources and engage with the Spanish language and Hispanic culture of an assigned country. In doing so, they learn about cultural awareness, context vocabulary, and phrases while also trying to solve a real-world problem -- providing Spanish language and cultural awareness training to a hotel staff.