Spanish for Educators

Help your LEP Students succeed!

Year after year we have more Spanish only students in our schools working hard to fit in with their classmates and succeed in school. With some basic, yet specific Spanish skills to help you manage your classroom and give clear direction to your limited English students, you can help make their transition into an English speaking classroom much more achievable.

The goal of Common Ground International’s Spanish for Educators courses is to help educators communicate effectively in Spanish with students and parents who are not yet fluent in English. Whether you choose to provide Spanish training during your School District’s Summer Teacher Trainings, on teacher workshop days, or at another convenient time during the year, Common Ground International will customize these Spanish courses to fit the unique needs of your school. Like all of Common Ground International’s Spanish courses, these class are dynamic, conversational, and provide you with practical Spanish skills to help you manage typical classroom situations.

The Beginning I Spanish for Educators course helps you:

• Communicate classroom rules and behavior expectations
• Express curriculum objectives to students and their parents
• Learn Spanish vocabulary for the classroom (classroom objects, etc.).
• Explain student schedules, classroom subjects and times
• Learn Latino cultural norms and its views on education

The Beginning II Spanish for Educators course helps you:

• Report incidents to parents
• Make phone calls home
• Discuss evaluations and assessments with parents
• Negotiate Parent-Teacher conferences
• Learn Latino cultural norms and its views on education

2-4 Hour teacher workshop topics:
Most of these in-service/teacher workshop topics are best to implement as additional review and training (or refresher courses) after completing the Beginning I or Beginning II level courses together.

• Behavior expectations
• Classroom objects & other vocabulary for the classroom.
• Classroom rules and expectations
• Discussing evaluations and assessments with parents
• Explaining student schedules, classroom subjects and times
• Expressing curriculum objectives to students and their parents
• Latino cultural norms and its views on education
• Making phone calls home
• Parent / teacher conferences
• Reporting incidents to parents

Call today for more information and to schedule courses or workshops for your staff 1(888) 879-2575.