subject: The Spanish Not Only Your Mother Lingua [print this page] Your first language is SpanishYour first language is Spanish. You've decided to start teaching the language. But how to start? What stairs do you follow? How to prepare to be a instructor of Spanish? Here I present a guide that tin help you to take your first stairs in this exciting profession.
A walk through me First of all I think you need to ask yourself if this occupation is for you. You may ask yourself how do I know? I think you will not find at first an absolute answer. Sure know how if you've never been? But I also think that if you look inside you sure this will guide you. Some feature you should keep in mind to be a instructor of Spanish
- You like the language, its language, its grammar
- Freehold language (speak properly, have no spelling mistakes)
- Willingness and ability to study (originally grammar)
- Sympathy
- Vocation of service (to the public)
These are I believe the briny features. You'll know yourself and you know in the first instance if this job is for you. If you are not friendly, sociable or do not have patience for people, I think not. If you have trouble expressing yourself when you try to explain to others any issue. Nor is it for you. Finally, trust your inner "I" in your intuition. hellhole give you an answer.
Education and training
First of all you tin choose to do a class of instructor training for student of Spanish as a sec language. In the case that yours is to be more selftaught I recommend the following steps.
First you start perusal the grammar of the Spanish language. Studying grammar means analyzing each of its components and understand. Understanding why use that phrase in that article and not another. What's the difference if I say "a white house or the White House." First you must study the issues, then you should start analyzing and finally begin to externalize. The latter means, explain the issues aloud, listen to yourself and see if you're right. Go perfecting your explanations or externalities. You tin do this in front of someone you trust and listen to their comments.
Study subject gradually and not all together. The issues that you must study to begin (this covers you level students): The alphabet (sound, pronunciation, letters with different behavior as the C or G), number and gender (female, male and their irregular plural) (definite and indefinite, and the difference between them - EL / THE THE / THE ONE / A UNOS / nails), the numbers, which is a which isa, order of words in a phrase, verb to be verb to be (difference between the two auxiliary verbs), in Spanish (this, that, one with its feminine and plural), in Spanish, the verb have and have,in the present indicative (with all its irregular). These are the briny issue there are some side time and time comparison the difference between too much and so and so and so.
A elucidation these issue are only to begin your journeying as a Spanish instructor they volition be sufficient to teach a pupil to start from scratch and do not know anything about the language. Then you must move forward.
It is very important now when you talk or read or hear Spanish think your grammar and you wonder to yourself because it use a specific word and not another. Analyzes your tongue now. Become aware of it.
You tin find grammar explanation anywhere. Remember to read more than one account give a wider position of the topic and the possibility of further explanation.
Finally pay attending to grammar explanation or analysis and or find the Spanish language morphology and semantics. No such explanations always be those students must pass. With them there to go into much detail or depth analyzes, the teaching of grammar should be easy and short. Enough so that the student can use it to talk. Use the native language or English for analogies. Find ways to transfer knowledge, for this you must take into account the socio-cultural context of the student. This volition help you and volition help a lot.
Delve into the grammar for you not for the student.
Search ELE material and resources
Start looking for stuff for your class. Search the web programs Spanish courses to give you an idea of ??the sequence of a course. Remember, first of all, that surely begin teaching private students and only after the groups spend. So I recommend that orients your searches to materials that can be used with this type of student. Better materials that you find on group dynamics, no discards, check first if you can modify for the particular class. If you can, keep them also in another bag for later use. I recommend you read my article on fundraising.
Another thing that tin help buy a book or 2 this volition give you more assurance when preparing materials. A good book for novice either as teacher or student is Though book is a bit old and only focus on grammar let alone teaching Spanish in taskfocused volition serve as a guide giving you many exercise and a good sequence of subject for teaching Spanish.
Our Clients - Search for students
Already in my article Where teach Spanish? I offer several tip on how and where to find our students. It is a process and not wait a week after the start calling. Little by little and with patience.
Start by going to school community center younker tourer hotel shelter senior center in all these place stick cartelitos booklet attractive offer classes. Teaches Spanish online via Skype or MSN. Post on the web at different site and classified.
When you take a bit of experience Begin to offer company state and private institution and so on Get to these place with a booklet in your program and display it in a class.
Creating a work program
Like any new project this return planning. Take your time to schedule your project deadline and brace.
For example:
20/7 begin to study the grammar
23/8 Presentation of a grammatical subject to a third
25/8 material for class Search
Add subcategories and search or study of a particular topic, advertise in this or that place, and so on
It is very important to do these program they guide us we always focus but just do not respect the deadlines.
Final Thoughts
beloved colleague and hereafter colleague this is a process that unfolds and that each individual volition take time depending on their capability the condition and fortune of where you live and so on. Do not expect after a month earn an income to pay the mortgage. It starts slowly, so I recommend you begin to enter the job alongside their current job and go while developing what they are doing now. The first phase or stage test is also for you, will see if this is for you and are good against students, if there is sufficient demand, and so on Take your time. I think a twelvemonth is a considerable time to begin to answer yourself if this is what they want and if they worth it.
I think beingness a instructor of Spanish as a foreign language is an exciting community and spread my language and my civilization is of the best things that have happened to me as an immigrant.
And remember you need to you tin e-mail me. For any doubt or question about your training or referred to the planning and scheduling of a class ailment be here to help.
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