I am a student in Spanish/Secondary Education. I am searching for practical, useful, real-life information (lesson plan-type materials) that I can put together in a project for my Educational Psychology and Sociology class. The information must include useful strategies, materials, techniques, ideas, etc. that I can use in the classroom with Special Education (which may include gifted and talented) students. I have found some research articles on the internet and in journals, but I need more PRACTICAL materials. If anyone can help me, then I would really appreciate it. Thank you!
Are you speaking of materials for Spanish?
You’re asking an excellent question and a very hard one. I’d say the task of teaching gifted and talented students together in a foreign class with other students who might have language-based learning disabilities would be an impossible one unless. … you were willing to break your class down into several classes.
The learning of a foreign language is a somewhat linear process. When one group of students have mastered the comprehensional, spoken and written vocabularly of the names of 10 nouns and others have not, what will you do? Will you force those who have not to move on without the foundation of those 10 nouns? Or will you tell those students who have that they must do ‘projects’ around their 10 mastered nouns until the others have mastered them as well?
I will be eager to see what materials you might garner in response to your post. I am not certain but that the dearth of practical material in regard to this can be attributed to the reality that there is none. Research articles ever abound but few of those researchers write lesson plans. They just tell the rest of us we need to.
I think you’re on to something here. Good luck with it.