Foam letters spell out Learn Spanish on a red backgroundSpanish for Educators

If your school and/or district has a large number of Spanish speaking students and families, this specially designed Spanish for Educators course from the Tennessee Language Center can help your K-12 teachers, school staff, and administrators with very little to no previous Spanish study to develop:

  • cultural understanding and
  • a basic repertoire of conversation skills to engage with Spanish speakers in their schools and local communities.

The course is 10 weeks, 2 hours once a week, ONLINE and is offered multiple times a year for schools and/or districts. Currently, we cannot offer classes to individual educators. Intensive 5-week online classes (twice a week for two hours) are also an option depending on interest.

The Spanish for Educators course will focus on specific education setting-related topics. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

  • Spell and pronounce names correctly in Spanish and understand the importance of family names in Spanish-speaking cultures and the use of one or two first/given names and two surnames
  • Talk about schedules, meeting times, and events
  • State some common school expectations, obligations, and responsibilities
  • Provide simple recommendations and instructions
  • Recommend/direct students and parents to school personnel
  • Identify personality traits, for example, when discussing students’ strengths and areas for improvement with other teachers, school staff, and/or parents
  • Use simple words/expressions of encouragement
  • Identify and express emotions/moods to help students identify their emotions/mood using Spanish for Social-Emotional Learning in the classroom and provide empathetic feedback

and much more.

Email worldlanguages@tennessee.edu or call us at 615-741-7579 for more information.