Hasta Luego

Photo courtesy of U.S. CIA

I leave for Mexico in just over a week!  I'm excited to meet my host family and begin student teaching there.  If you'd like to learn a little more about where I'm going and what I'm doing, I thought I'd give you a couple interesting links.  I've also included a map above so that you can see where Morelia is. 

Morelia is a beautiful Colonial city in Mexico.  If you would like to see photos of the city, click here.  Then click on the map of the city.  A larger version will show up, and if you scroll over the maroon circles, you'll see some incredible photos.  The architecture of Morelia's buildings is gorgeous.

Varmond School, a bilingual school where I'll be student teaching uses the AMCO curriculum. I think they have an interesting curriculum approach, since the textbooks are updated monthly.  This allows the company to include the most current information, unlike most U.S. textbooks, which update every year or so but are often only updated in schools every several years.  If you'd like to learn more about the AMCO curriculum that I'll be using, click here.  If you go the instructional guides, "Metodo 2" are the guides used in the English classes, which I will be teaching.  These were invaluable for me when I did some preliminary instructional planning.  Since Varmond's workbooks include the entire curriculum that the teachers need to cover for the month, most of my instructional plans for now are ideas for short activities and games that I can integrate into part of my lessons. 

That's all I have for now.  Thanks for checking my blog.  I'll miss all of you in the States!  Take care and keep in touch!