Haley+Brooks

Haley Brooks

I am a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in Exercise Science. I am now obtaining my teacher's certificate in Spanish and hope to teach high school Spanish when done. I have had terrible Spanish teachers in my past and hope to provide students with a better atmosphere in learning a language than I was afforded. I have lived in Mexico for a summer as well as traveled there during past summers to work with mission teams. This is the base of my motivation to learn the language. My experiences with Spanish speakers has shown me the importance of being to communicate in a different language, whatever that language my be. I am from Birmingham, AL, have 3 brothers and one sister, a wonderful husband, 5 1/2 month old little boy and a pit bull that I consider my daughter! I am a huge Auburn fan but am married to a Clemson fanatic. I work part time as an athletic trainer and worked as an athletic trainer at Auburn University before returning to school.

I am a little scared of technology. At times, it can be frustrating and problematic, while at others, it can be truly beneficial and time saving. I do have the desire to increase my knowledge and capabilities in the area of technology, but also do not want to competely and totally rely on it to run my classroom





Quizlet:

Username: hmbrooks Flashcard name: hrmyers-los lugares

For memorization and quizzing purposes, quizlet is a very useful tool. Aside from beginner language classes and memorization of vocabulary, quizlet can be used for verb conjugations, image use, and translation purposes. I think it would aid the teacher within a classroom of visual leaners as well as give the students an opportunity to be a part of creating a learning tool themselves. In order to find the flashcards, on the home page, click "find" and enter hrmyers-los lugares. An additional site is called flash card machine. The url is: [|www.flashcardmachine.com]. It is very similar to quizlet in that you can create your own flashcards,and find other flashcards already made. I also found flashcards that had sentences in which you could translate and flip over to see the significance of an entire frase. It would also be beneficial for visual learners.







While teaching a unit on culture, this map would be very useful to show the different dialects of Spanish spoken in South America. In addition, many students never really learn geography outside of their own continent. Spanish is spoken not only in Latin American and Europe, but in different countries in South America as well. In starting this unit, I would ask the question stated above the map. How many of these countries have Spanish as their official language just to see where students perceptions are.

The activity below, called wordbiz is also a useful interactive tool for students to test their knowledge in vocabulary, verb tenses, really anything the teacher would like to use it for. Students could go to the board and actually type these letters themselves either in just a review activity or in a competition as teams or groups. This would be a way to get students involved in the content in a fun way and push them to want to know the material in order to win a game among classmates.

This is a tic tac toe game which can be useful for almost anything within the modern language classroom. I used it to conjugate present tense verbs, but it can be used any vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses or test preparation. It can get competitive and can also be used to give extra credit on quizzes or tests for the winners of each game. It was found at [].

The activity below can be found at [|www.crickweb.co.uk] then going to key stage1 and finding Spanish. There were many interactive games on this website, but this particular one affords students the opportunity to work with colors. The activity tab allows students to drag the name to the color and it does not turn green until it is on the correct color. The dictionary tab provides the word in English and gives the translation to Spanish. This would obviously be for a Spanish I class that was being introduced to colors. This would be a fun, interactive and quick way to introduce the vocabulary of colors. 