Timothy Mckay

Every single day we use our phones to mostly play Kahoot to review Spanish lessons, which gets old very fast. We also do graded worksheets such as cross word puzzles and word searches, which are easy to do and an easy grade if you finish and turn them in on time. Quizzes and tests are usually multiple choice, fill in the blank, or matching. Yes there may be no homework for this class, but you definitely need to study outside of class to succeed on the tests. The downside to this class is that we rarely speak Spanish, but do written work instead. I believe that it is crucial for students to not only be able to read and write in Spanish, but to also be able to converse as well because at the end of the day, speaking the language is more important in the real world when trying to communicate to other Spanish speakers. In addition, class gets boring because we do the same thing everyday and there is a lack of variation in the activities that we do to memorize Spanish. Before, I had an amazing Spanish teacher who would include various interactive class games to review Spanish in groups or as a class and have us practice speaking, which made students look forward to going to Spanish because it was fun and different than any other subject. By the end of the year we were able to speak fluent in Spanish 1! However, Spanish with McKay truly let me down.