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| Title | Ideas for Recruiting Foreign Language Students |
| Body | A recent request on the AATG listserv for ideas for recruiting students to take foreign language classes generated the following suggestions. These came from German teachers but could be modified for any language. ----- Rob Williams has a couple skits he used. They were simple, humorous skits that even the non-German students could figure out the meaning of. I think they were aimed more at elementary aged kids, but might work at the middle school, too. They are on the following page. http://sps.k12.mo.us/khs/german/germany/teacher/dtrecruit.htm Zahn, B. Re: [AATG-L] urgent request for help. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (29 Jan. 2005). ----- With my students, we did the following. They worked in groups of 3, each group going into a different classroom. 1. We made a large poster for each group labeled "German Words You Already Know." It had plenty of cognates. We set this in the chalk tray at the board and taped the top to keep it upright. (Tip - bring your own tape and scissors.) 2. We cut colored construction paper into large rectangles. On the blue one, we wrote BLAU with a black marker (only on one side). On the red one we wrote ROT, etc. We did the primary colors. The students taught a mini-lesson. Student 1 held up the color card with the word showing, student 2 taught the lesson - simply having the students repeat the words. After doing this several times, S1 flipped the cards over so the words were not showing and S2 asked, "Who knows what color this is?. S2 gave lots of praise for the right answers and, if it was a wrong answer, I told them to say, "Oh, you're thinking of a different color. We'll get to that one, but who knows what this color is?" 3. We made a poster: "Your Name is German !" and put on it the German last names of students in our school - Schneider, Nebel, Kolb, etc. We propped this one up on the chalk tray, too, just like no. 1 above. 4. S2 taught the students to count from 1 to 5 and used hand gestures, starting with the thumb. Then S3 asked a question, "What number comes after the number I say?" and had volunteers give the answer. 5. Ahead of time, I made up a VERY SIMPLE word search using the colors we had taught. S3 gave this to the students at the end of our presentation along with a mini-Hershey bar, explaining that Hershey was a German-American. While she was doing that S1 pointed out the two posters at the board and what was on them. We rehearsed in class ahead of time on two different days, each group of 3 getting up and presenting to the rest of us. Our presentation was about 15 minutes long. Haring, C. Re: [AATG-L] urgent request for help. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (29 Jan. 2005). |
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