TAing at Del Mar

       While I have lived in Nosara, Costa Rica and attended Del Mar Academy, I have been teaching a lot. It is mostly outside of school at the Nosara Performing Arts Academy, but I have also been helping out with two fourth grade Spanish classes at Del Mar. I work with both classes for 45 minutes every Tuesday afternoon. The first class is non-spanish speakers, and the second is kids who are fluent or almost fluent in Spanish. As I am not fluent in Spanish, I can generally be more help in the first class. I help the kids with basic conjugations that they are learning, sentence structure, words and phrases, and anything else their teacher needs me to do.

       This activity demonstrates Service and Learning Outcome 1: Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth. Working with both of these classes shows my how much better my Spanish is getting, but how much room for improvement there is.