On my own...

Happy Thursday. This week is almost over and I'm nervous/anxious/excited for next week to begin. All last semester I've been leaning heavily on books/curricula to help me with my TPRS journey. It's hard enough when you're trying to learn a brand new way of teaching while coming up with all new material. I've been so grateful to my co-workers for helping me find already made "lesson plans" so that I can focus on my delivery more than what to teach. Next week I'm going to begin and do things on my own. I'll be taking vocabulary structures from the list of 100 most commonly used Spanish verbs. I'll be taking all of the things I've learned last semester and putting it to the test next week.

The structures I'll be teaching are: hace (does, makes), sabe (knows), and llega (arrives)
I'm going to take these 3 structures and focus on only them throughout the week. I'll teach students nouns that go with these adjectives. I thought party items seemed to go well so I'll be introducing words like cake, drinks, party, gifts, etc.

I took a great idea from a fellow teacher of mine to help me remember some of the stories we come up with in class so I can use those stories and turn them into reading practice activities or even quizzes. He suggested I do a composition book and pick one student who knows what's going on to write down the story (in English) as we go.  This person will be known as the "story-writer." Like I said in my previous post, I'm trying to give jobs to my students. I want my students to feel a certain ownership over what goes on in class. With a sense of ownership I believe that students will invest a little bit more into their learning. Other jobs I have implemented so far are:
Counter - This person is in charge of keeping track how many times I say a certain word. My goal is usually between 70-100 times.
Experto - This person is the "expert." Whenever my students and I are coming up with a story, ideas are tossed around and people can't agree on one. This is when I turn to the experto who, with a sense of authority, tells us which idea we will use for our story. Then I go on and on about how wonderful/creative/smart the experto is and that his idea is genius. Once again, ownership.

I'll update next week about how my week "on my own" is going. Have a great weekend!