building community through language learning glastonbury public schools

Building Community through Language Learning

Glastonbury Public Schools

www.foreignlanguage.org

PresentersRebecca ComenaleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High Schoolcomenaler@glastonburyus.orgMeghan ZingleSpanish Teacher/ Glastonbury High Schoolzinglem@glastonburyus.org

Partner teacherPatty SilveySpanish teacher/ Hopewell Schoolsilveyp@glastonburyus.org

Rita OleksakDirector Foreign Languages and ELL/Glastonbury Public Schoolsoleksakr@glastonburyus.org

Support literacy through increased exposure to language-rich texts and activities.

Celebrate accompanying languages and cultures by cross-age, cross-ability projects.

Promote language learning across levels by developing relationships between students.

Aims of the project

BackgroundUnderstanding by Design

Essential questions • Spanish 6-How are we transformed by our study of

languages and cultures?• Spanish 3rd grade-What do learn from our global

community?

FLES programHistory of book project

How we got startedJoint objective between three teachers across two grade levels (3rd and 12th grades)

“Grand plans”Successes and challenges

Activity #1

“¡Hola amigos!”Information from "mi amigo"

Activity #2Book recording

“Books on tape”

Activity #3Games designed around 1st-3rd grade units of study

Activity #4Seniors wrote books through collaboration with 3rd graders

Activity #5Ideas and suggestions

Our Funding •District Foreign Language Budget

(Glastonbury Public Schools)

•PTSO Grant

(Parent Teacher Student Organization supporting Glastonbury High School.)

•NADSFL

(National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages)