The speaker was Ms. Kimberly Schenck
She has taught in dual language for 6 years, five years in the preschool and children’s ministry, started my teaching journey at Lee in the third grade. She teaches out of the box and loves to see children grow into their potential. The opportunity to acquire a second language is very powerful!
She has taught in dual language for 6 years, five years in the preschool and children’s ministry, started my teaching journey at Lee in the third grade. She teaches out of the box and loves to see children grow into their potential. The opportunity to acquire a second language is very powerful!
- Participation- all native Spanish speakers are automatically in the program, English speakers are put into a lottery and chosen this way.
- Younger siblings can be grandfathered into the program.
- The only way to be taken from the program is to have some sort of learning disability that doesn’t fit in the model.
- Wilson uses the Gomez & Gomez model in teaching dual language.
- Students work in partner groups of Spanish speaker and English speaker.
- Everything is taught to the top 25% and the rest trickles down through cooperation of partners.
- There are word walls in both languages (blue for English and red for Spanish)
- Journal time is very important.
- Students write in either language depending on the language of the day, LAD.
- Journaling helps students put what they know and learn into words.
- If they are able to write it and talk about it they know it.