Reflection 2 : Websites that might help.

I am doing my teacher shadowing with the World Languages teacher at Sacajawea Middle School. She is teaching a Spanish unit, and the main problem that students present is about pronunciation. But, as I am not going to teach Spanish to my future students in Chile, I looked for some websites that might help them in their process of learning the ENGLISH language and I found some.

http://voicethread.com/#home

http://voicethread.com/#q.b45155.i236192


I chose the link above(a Mini-story) because I firmly believe that when the teacher uses Listen & Answer Mini-Stories, students learn two to four times faster than students in normal English classes. In these stories, the teacher can ask a lot of easy questions while telling a story. The questions encourage students to think and respond quickly in English, without translation. This is the reason why I would use Listen & Answer Mini-Stories in all of my lesson sets.
Students' time is valuable and I want them to make maximum progress for each minute they spend with my lessons. I think that if I use listen and answer mini-stories, students will have more fluent speech, greater confidence, and better listening comprehension.