Gilma Lainez

GILMA LAINEZ

ESOL & SPANISH TEACHER

I am an experienced foreign language teacher with a Virginia teaching license to teach English as a Second Language PREK-12 and Spanish PREK-12.

I have worked as a foreign language teacher for 20 years. I taught ESL in University of El Salvador, Central America, for 13 years. In Virginia, I have worked for institutions like Northern Virginia Community College and Fairfax County Public Schools, teaching both ESOL and Spanish. I also have plenty of experience teaching blended courses using LMSs like Moodle and Blackboard. I have received training on instructional design and how to create effective online learning environments.

I have a passion for creating high-quality and engaging content for my students. I am very creative and always jump at the opportunity to be part of educational projects that involve making videos, taking photos, redesigning content, and training other teachers.

I appreciate you taking the time to look at some samples of material I have created for my classes. To best experience the use of audios and links, I suggest opening the presentations using the arrow on the right upper corner. Thank you!

Samples of materials I have created for my ESOL students.

What are these animals doing right now?

An interactive activity that asks students to explore what some animals at the zoo are doing. Answers will vary as cameras at the zoo are live. Students will answer using a grammatical structure taught previously.

Find someone who...

This is a fun listening comprehension activity that could be adapted to practice different grammatical structures or vocabulary.

Guess the name of the animal

Students try to guess the name of the animal before time is up!

What pattern do you hear?

Patterns are always a great way to practice vocabulary.

A short video showing how I would teach a virtual class to a group of elementary school ESOL students.

Samples of materials I created for my Spanish FLES class, grades K to 5th, to support virtual learning during the 2020-2021 school year. Similar activities can be used when teaching ESOL.

A video I made to explain an assignment

Video to review vocabulary

Ms Lainez FLES Caracteristicas del Oceano.pdf

Infographic

Example of Exit Ticket

Exit Ticket

FLES 5th G - Oceano 1

Presentation slides

Video to review vocabulary

Examples of assignments students can complete using Pear Deck or Google Classroom

¿Qué animal del océano eres?

I made this fun personality quiz in which students had to find out what ocean animal they were. The questions they answered helped them review previously studied vocabulary like weather, seasons, and food. I enjoy finding ways to recycle vocabulary and link it with new topics.

Assignment sample 1

In this assignment, students had to distribute the animals according to the ocean zone where they live. I created PNG images with the names in Spanish so students could easily identify them. At the end, they told the class the name of their favorite animal.

For this assignment, I recorded the names of the different ocean activities we were studying, so students could practice them as many times as needed. At the end, students had to match the audios with the pictures.

Assignment sample 2

In this assignment, students had to select their favorite ocean activities; results were shown as a poll with Pear Deck. At the end, students had to ask five classmates about their favorite ocean activity.

A video for Virtual Field Day

I had so much fun making this video for my school's Virtual Field Day in June 2020.

El camuflaje de los animales

My second graders had a blast learning about animals, colors and camouflage.

Samples of lesson plans and tasks for Spanish I and

ESL college classes

Samples of tasks.pdf

Samples of tasks

Five examples of lesson plans.pdf

Samples of lesson plans

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