More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Some of the games chosen will directly increase vocabulary, but they all will accomplish that indirectly. I have a unit on families and communities and we will play the games to better learn about those institutions in the Spanish speaking world. These are also full immersion days and I teach the kids all of the vocabulary that they need to play the games.
I am trying to recreate a family night in the classroom. All foreign language teachers have heard parents say that they wish that they would have stuck with the language, but they couldn't learn in a classroom. I am trying to recreate the immersive atmosphere of living abroad as much as I can in the classroom and hopefully inspire them to do just that in the future.
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Some of the games chosen will directly increase vocabulary, but they all will accomplish that indirectly. I have a unit on families and communities and we will play the games to better learn about those institutions in the Spanish speaking world. These are also full immersion days and I teach the kids all of the vocabulary that they need to play the games.
I am trying to recreate a family night in the classroom. All foreign language teachers have heard parents say that they wish that they would have stuck with the language, but they couldn't learn in a classroom. I am trying to recreate the immersive atmosphere of living abroad as much as I can in the classroom and hopefully inspire them to do just that in the future.