Imagined Classroom
Imagined Classroom: 1. PICTURES 1. Entrance: I feel it is a small, yet, powerful reminder that the students are entering a foreign language class and that they will now be immersed in and speaking German. I feel that I will establish this idea in my classroom that as soon as the students cross the threshold of the door, it will be 99% German. 2. Partner/ Group Discussions: The important thing to notice in this picture is that all of the desks have two chairs. I imagine having two students or maybe even three to four sitting in groups because when learning a foreign language, it is crucial to constantly interact and work with other students in the class. 3. Language Immersion: I feel that part of language immersion is literally to have aspects of the language on the walls of the classroom so that the children are surrounded by it. My future classroom will have walls with words and phrases very similar to this one. 4. Culture Immersion: It is n...