The Art of Teaching Spanish

With Clara Velez and Ornella Betancourt

With this course, we will bring the Waldorf pedagogical principles of a foreign language to students in a practical and artistic way. To learn and teach a foreign language is not only about vocabulary and grammar, but about creating a relationship with that language and communicating with our feeling, willing, and thinking. Through songs, games, poems, and plays, we will be able to bring the Spanish language in a joyful and creative ways to the students.

This course is intended for new and experienced teachers of Spanish who are seeking to expand their understanding of Waldorf education and enhance their repertoire in the areas of music, poetry, and role playing. This course will be taught in Spanish.

• Music and the human being
• Looking beyond rote learning
• Conversation and singing in Grades 1-8
• Pedagogical principles of second language teaching