by paulinobrener on March 6, 2012
Central States Conference
March 8 – 10, 2012,Milwaukee, WI.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
SESSION 13: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
S-1304
Room: Frontier Airlines Center 202B
¡Bailemos Juntos!
Presenters: Jeanne Psket, Arrowhead HS, Hartland, WI; Kerisa Baedke, Prairieview School, Waukee, IA; Paulino Brener, paulinobrener.com, Minneapolis, MN; Lisa Sobotka, Valley Southwoods, West Des Moines, IA
The presenters will teach dances that are danced in Concordia Language Villages’ El Lago del Bosque. The dances include line dances, traditional dances, and popular dances. We will explore dance as a vehicle to teach not only culture, but also as a natural connection to grammar and vocabulary.
Dance is a fun way to incorporate multiple intelligences in our classrooms.
So, put on your dancing shoes and let’s dance together!
Theme: Activities and Strategies
Language: Spanish
Examples: Spanish
Audience: MS/JHS, HS, College/University
by paulinobrener on November 2, 2011
On Thursday Oct 6 and Friday Oct 28 Paulino Brener presenting Bailemos Juntos for CIS (College in Schools) program.
The Bailemos Juntos presentation if part of a longer session where High School students from different town and cities in MN come to visit the University of Minnesota. These students are part of a unique program sponsored by the U of M in which the take an advance Spanish class in their High School and earn credits from U of M at the same time.
The presentation for CIS is usually about 3 hours long in the theater at Coffman Union or auditorium at Mayo Building. Bailemos Juntos is usually left to end the presentation. Students listen and learn a lot from the former part of the presentation (usually cultural topics) but they are always ready to get up and move with Bailemos Juntos. Space sometimes can be limited by we make it work. We have so much fun!
CIS is usually attended by 300 or 400 High School students.
What teachers say about “Bailemos Juntos”
April 18, 2011A nice comment we received from a teacher after visiting her school “We attended Paulino’s workshop at the Central States Conference for Foreign Language Teachers in Minnesota in 2010. We returned to our high school and submitted a grant proposal for the funding to have him come and teach our students the songs and dances [...]