Dual-Language Program

We implemented a dual-language program at Hampton Street School this year for interested students in grades K-2. Students rotate between a teacher speaking only in English and a teacher instructing only in Spanish throughout the school day. The program has been successful to date and the we intend to expand it next year. I walked into Carmen Vazquez’s second-grade class recently and saw this. It’s students receiving a social studies lesson in Spanish while using the total physical response technique. TPR is the use of hand and body gestures to help language learners better understand what they are learning. It’s really something and an expanded article on the dual-language program and TPR will be included in the district’s next edition of the Outreach. Watch your mailboxes for it sometime in early April.