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"One aspect that went well was the first activity in which students had to fill in the blanks. This activity seemed to be at the level of understanding for the students. Another activity that went well was the conjugation song; students seemed very…"

"After watching my peer’s teaching slice it can be observed that he spoke in the target language for 80% of the video only switching to english when he noticed a student's frustration or worry of not understanding. In addition, to speaking…"

"The subject of the lesson is, “El Día de los Muertos”. This lesson is a reading comprehension. For the presentation I showed a video accompanied by four questions to test their listening comprehension and introduce students to the…"

"Section B: Fiseema’s lesson was very well taught out in merging the topic of art and Pablo Picasso in the target language because students may have prior knowledge based on previous classes. By using this topic she is also providing students…"

"The subject of the lesson is, “El Día de los Muertos”. This lesson is a reading comprehension. For the presentation I showed a video accompanied by four questions to test their listening comprehension and introduce students to the…"

"I really enjoyed your reading comprehension which is a really good example of using UDL. You created one lesson plan using two methods to assist students with such needs. By providing options to text you optimize individual choice and…"

"The reason why I found this lesson to be strong and interesting is because the pictures used are familiar to those who watched “Jane the Virgen”, a very popular Spanglish soap opera. By knowing the characters and background in English…"

"The micro-teaching activity assigned was on reading comprehension. We began the activity with a 1-minute snippet of an interview between Cardi B and la Mega 97.9FM in the interview Cardi B speaks in Spanish and talks about her family as well as her…"

"Hi Evelyn, I enjoyed your lesson; it was very colorful and interactive. As VanPatten stated repetition assists with memory and when presenting a good input will cause a good output. I agree in that there should have been more of a cultural view or…"

"The topic of our lesson was speaking Spanish. In our lesson we focused more on greetings and pronunciation. I found our activities interesting and strong for our class because we provided multiple opportunities for students to practice the usage of…"