Spanish Classroom

Starting off the year with 3 different Spanish teachers has been an extreme task for the Freshman as well as the upperclassman this year. Freshman students have struggled with understanding as well as speaking the language because of the adjustment through each teacher. Students in first year Spanish classes excitedly walked into their Spanish classes eager to learn the new language. With only a couple of weeks into school there was already an issue with the first teacher. Freshman were frustrated with their test grades because their hard work did not pay off. Following the first teacher came two more, and students again weren’t able to perform well. The new Spanish teacher Dr. Roldan, has been pushing students to speak the language in class
I’m starting to finally understand Spanish and I’m able to even speak it better now!” Although Dr. Roldan came in the middle of the year Freshman as well as the Softmores have been waiting for their test grades to go up and now that Dr. Roldan is their new teacher they can guarantee they will complete this semester with satisfying grades. At first students were hesitant with Dr. Roldan but with in the first week they were already participating and enthusiastically speaking Spanish. Thanks to Dr. Roldan students aren’t afraid they won’t move on to second year Spanish. Even though students are still a little overwhelmed with the fact that they have had three teachers, Dr. Roldan is providing them with a lot of exercises to enforce their vocabulary. Jeremy Ascher ‘19, of the first year Spanish class says “I think Dr. Roldan is doing a great job considering she came in the middle of the year and I really like the way she is teaching.” Dr. Roldan will unquestionably help students in all grades excel with their Spanish vocabulary and their speaking. Students passionately are learning to get the grades they deserve, and thanks to our new Spanish teacher students goals will be