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Virtual Communities Of Practice For Non-Native K-12 Spanish Educators As Professional Development, Javier Gerardo Gómez May 2016

Virtual Communities Of Practice For Non-Native K-12 Spanish Educators As Professional Development, Javier Gerardo Gómez

Dissertations

Many world language and culture educators are non-native speakers of the language they teach. Although the current face-to-face professional development sessions do a good job in helping educators acquire technology tools to implement in their world language classrooms, professional development lacks in target language enrichment and providing ongoing collaboration among world language educators who are geographically dispersed. Additionally, the cost of attending state-wide, regional, and national world language professional development is very expensive and thus many world language educators cannot take part in these trainings. Consequently, many world language educators do not have the professional training they need to improve …


Experimental Units For The Beginning Teacher Of Spanish In The Intermediate Grades Of Stanislaus County Schools, Betty Ann Fowler Jan 1964

Experimental Units For The Beginning Teacher Of Spanish In The Intermediate Grades Of Stanislaus County Schools, Betty Ann Fowler

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The increasing emphasis on foreign language learning in the elementary school is the reason for the study to develop experimental units for the beginning teacher of Spanish in the intermediate grades of Stanislaus County schools.