CB West Spotlight
October 20, 2017
English-Spanish Language Exchange
On Monday, October 16, Sra. Suárez invited Mrs. Simpson’s Newcomer English class to participate in a language exchange. The English Learning students have been using Canvas periodically in their class, so they helped the Spanish 1 students to access Canvas so that they could see how to use their interactive textbook and workbook. Canvas is the district’s new Learning Management System (LMS). It is a way to organize unit content and assignments for easy on-line access in school and from home. The Spanish department adopted a new textbook series that employs an online textbook and workbook that students will access via Canvas from home to do homework, and from school to do other activities in class. After learning how to complete a homework assignment on Canvas, all of the students interviewed each other in Spanish and English. They learned each other’s names, where they were from and about their families. Both classes are already begging to go back and spend more time with their new friends. They plan on having more language exchanges in the future with hopes of getting together every couple of weeks.
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