Maria

I've started teaching private lessons when I was 17, following with doing some substitutions at private institutes. Then, while I was at university, I had two opportunities in which I worked as student assistant, that is, collaborating with the teacher of a specific chair doing some work like commanding a class, checking on the roll, etc. After graduating, I worked at an elementary school with 1st graders and at a kindergarten, teaching 4-year-old toodlers. Currently, I'm working as an online Spanish medical interpreter for a company in Tallahassee, Florida.

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we teachers were kind of forced to limit our classes to digital material, both synchronic and asynchronic classes, even dynamic activities like games were modified. In my personal case, I taught 20-30 year-old seniors, intermediate level and 6-7 kids.

I approached teaching as a holistic principle, not setting the classbook aside at all but integrating the actvities proposed in it with other resources that the technological advance can provide.

What is more, in the development of my lessons, I always tried to include tools and materials that my students will enjoy. For example, when treating with adolescents, I managed to elicit their linguisitic knowledge through songs from their favourite bands/singers or through the making of presentations, debates and the like about videogames, movies, etc. With kids, I made a great use of background songs to make up the environment.

For example, to practice vocabulary, we used to go through activities like scavenger hunts, puzzles, searching while I played a suspense song (mission impossible soundtrack for instance) to encourage them. And I can continue enlisting all the things that I did to carried out my online classes as dynamic and enjoyable for students and for me as possible.

I happen to have a good profile as regards teaching. I've started teaching private lessons when I was 17, following with doing some substitutions at private institutes.

Then, while I was at university, I had two opportunities in which I worked as student assistant, that is, collaborating with the teacher of a specific chair doing some work like commanding a class, checking on the roll, etc.

After graduating, I worked at an elementary school with 1st graders and at a kindergarten, teaching 4-year-old toodlers.

Currently, I'm working as an online Spanish medical interpreter for a company in Tallahassee, Florida. This is kind of what my experience in teaching has been since then.