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Marcelo Leal

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School / Work Affiliation: BAFLP, My-eCoach, CTAP, Oak Grove High School

Website: http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12953

Skype Account: mnkleal

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: marcelo leal

About Me: My Philosophy
My philosophy is based on teaching to Multiple Intelligences. In order to become proficient of the target language students needs to be exposed to culture and language through dialogue, art, technology, music and projects. Teaching the language as well as the culture fosters the idea that learning a world language is a means of communication and cultural expression, not simply a school subject.
My Environment
My name is Marcelo Leal and I’m in my 14th year of teaching Spanish at Oak Grove High School in San Jose. At fifteen, I came to the US from El Salvador continued my education in New York City where I graduated from Hunter College in Manhattan. It was also in New York where I worked with renown educator Deborah Myer at Central Park East Secondary School in Harlem where I learned how to motivate those students whose motivation may be lacking. I moved to California with my wife in 2000 and joined the team at Oak Grove High School in East San Jose. My passion is finding ways for students to access the curriculum with technology and motivating the Latino youth and their families for a post secondary education. Working with the Migrant Education Program and Latino Parents Coalition allows me to advocate for the importance of education to students and their families. My affiliation with BAFLP (the Bay Area Foreign Language Program) has allowed me to work with hundreds of language teachers on best practices and methods of teaching a second language. I’m currently working with educators to train them on the uses of an on-line unit sharing framework (My E-coach.com) where I will be conducting upcoming workshops at Stanford University.
My Roles and Responsibilities
It is essential that my students learn Spanish through a broad range of styles, students are encouraged to relate to the target language as a means of enriching their communications skills and broadening their world perspectives.

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At 12:06am on January 1, 2009, Jack said…: Hi Marcelo!

Happy New Year! I was wondering if you, your educator contacts, or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from California!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!