I created a power-point presentation incorporating several videos, audio and pictures so my students can learn the Spanish alphabet. I believe this method of delivery can help students to develop both the disciplined and synthesizing minds in several ways.
As I constructed the presentation, one of my goals was to encourage the students to make comparisons between the two alphabets, to see the similarities and the differences. Comparing and contrasting are two abilities associated with Analysis, the fourth step of the Bloom’s Taxonomy Pyramid. It is considered one of the “higher” levels of thinking and it is also the step directly before Synthesis. The mere introduction of a new alphabet to a student whose linguistic skills are limited to his “mother tongue” is a first step towards higher level thinking. Many students show surprise that the ABC’s are not always A, B, C, but can also be “ah, bay, say.” To further facilitate this line of thinking, in the presentation I included the question,”Is the Spanish alphabet the same as the English alphabet?”
By including a variety of video presentations my intention was to meet two goals: to fulfill the requirements established by my professor for the assignment that I was completing (which, I am sure, was included as a requirement so that I could reach my second goal) and to show my students that there are multiple ways of approaching any particular theme. This is precisely what we want them to be able to do: to understand that there is not only one way to look at the world around them. To get this point across, we could also have our students stand on their desks and get a new perspective, as John Keating, the character portrayed by Robin Williams, did in the film, “Dead Poets’ Society.”
By the end of the presentation, my aim is that my students will not only learn the Spanish alphabet and be able to compare and contrast it to the English version, but they will also be able to synthesize all the new rules and knowledge presented to them on the screen so that they can read and write Spanish words correctly, which in turn will lead to more synthesizing in their future endeavors.
As I constructed the presentation, one of my goals was to encourage the students to make comparisons between the two alphabets, to see the similarities and the differences. Comparing and contrasting are two abilities associated with Analysis, the fourth step of the Bloom’s Taxonomy Pyramid. It is considered one of the “higher” levels of thinking and it is also the step directly before Synthesis. The mere introduction of a new alphabet to a student whose linguistic skills are limited to his “mother tongue” is a first step towards higher level thinking. Many students show surprise that the ABC’s are not always A, B, C, but can also be “ah, bay, say.” To further facilitate this line of thinking, in the presentation I included the question,”Is the Spanish alphabet the same as the English alphabet?”
By including a variety of video presentations my intention was to meet two goals: to fulfill the requirements established by my professor for the assignment that I was completing (which, I am sure, was included as a requirement so that I could reach my second goal) and to show my students that there are multiple ways of approaching any particular theme. This is precisely what we want them to be able to do: to understand that there is not only one way to look at the world around them. To get this point across, we could also have our students stand on their desks and get a new perspective, as John Keating, the character portrayed by Robin Williams, did in the film, “Dead Poets’ Society.”
By the end of the presentation, my aim is that my students will not only learn the Spanish alphabet and be able to compare and contrast it to the English version, but they will also be able to synthesize all the new rules and knowledge presented to them on the screen so that they can read and write Spanish words correctly, which in turn will lead to more synthesizing in their future endeavors.
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