Hi, all!
My name is Lanaia Walker, and I am going to Grand
Valley State University for Elementary Education and teaching Elementary
Spanish! Super specifically, I am a Core Sciences and Arts for Teaching (CSAT)
major, and a Teaching Elementary Spanish Minor.
Directly related to my degrees is my first fun fact:
I am the very first person to be going through my program in the College of
Education. This makes me a sort of guinea pig for the COE; while they figure
out the best way to send us elementary Spanish teachers through. This semester
I am in a Spanish transition bilingual kindergarten classroom at Cesar Chávez
Elementary School, and so far it is awesome! I get to teach the children everything
you would normally teach kindergartners, but for the Spanish language instead
of English.
Some things that I absolutely love, besides Spanish
and children, are reading, spending time outside being active, hanging out with
my husband, watching NCIS (season 13 starts September 22nd!), and
getting to see my family. I have seven people in my family, and soon there will
be nine of us, as we are in the process of adopting two toddlers who have been
in foster care in our home for almost two years.
As far as planning and using technology in the
classroom, throughout my time at Grand Valley I have spent a lot of time
planning and using PowerPoint presentations while teaching lessons. They are
very helpful for keeping lessons on track and interesting. I have also used a
couple different blogs, including Weebly, in many classes to organize information
and incite discussion among classmates. While tutoring in English 308, I relied
heavily on a couple different book websites, including the Children’s
Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), to help me evaluate book levels and
quality for my tutees. Finally, in our elementary health class, we were required
to find websites and online videos to help plan lessons for each unit of
health. In many of these lessons, Pinterest was an extremely useful resource.
The schools I have spent the most time are Robinson Elementary, which is a part of Grand Haven Area Public Schools, and Sibley and
Cesar Chávez Elementary, which are both part of Grand Rapids Public Schools.
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