Jul 16, 2025  
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

FLL 625 - Teaching Spanish Within the Elementary and Middle School Settings, Curriculum Development through the Arts

3 credits
Prerequisites: Must be a MAT student
Designed for Spanish teachers K-8. Teachers are presented with arts-based strategies to teach interactive use of Spanish at the elementary and middle school levels. Topics include the classroom use of Hispanic stories, songs and music, rhymes and poetry, and arts and crafts to facilitate Spanish language development. The program models using arts-based instruction in the classroom and issues related to implementations of programs are also discussed. Students are provided with the opportunity to use inquiry skills in the development of both theoretical and applied content. For the Master of Arts in Teaching program, appropriate 400 level Foreign Language and Literature courses may be offered at the 500 level.