How Strong Is Your Academic Spanish?
The Velázquez Academic Spanish Language Academy (VASLA) equips educators with essential knowledge of Spanish structure, spelling, and accents to improve literacy instruction. Courses offer practical strategies, explore regional language variations, and build skills that impact teaching immediately. Ideal for teachers who teach in Spanish for Dual Language programs and are looking to improve their understanding of the Spanish language.
Available in Virtual or Face-To-Face:
Introduction to Academic Spanish Language in the Classroom (Item #: PB-ASLA-01) or as a self-paced online course (Item # PB-ASLA-00)
Academic Spanish Language in the K-2 Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-02Academic Spanish Language in the 3-5 Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-03Academic Spanish Language in the Elementary Math Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-04
Strengthen Teachers' Spanish Language Skills
- La importancia de la ortografía (The Importance of Ortography)
- Historia de la lengua española (History of the Spanish Language)
- La fonología del español (Spanish Phonology)
- Las reglas de acentuación (Rules for Accented Words)
- Los signos de puntuación (Punctuation Marks)
- Los fonemas que regularmente causan confusión (onfusing Phonemes)
- El uso de las mayúsculas (The Use of Capital Letters)
- Las palabras que con frecuencia nos causan dudas (Confusing Words and Spellings)
- Ejercicios de práctica (Practice)
- Conexiones interlingüísticas para los programas de Dos Idiomas/Doble Inmersión (Making Cross-linguistic Connections for Dual Language Programs)
Introduction to Academic Spanish Language in the Classroom
(Item #: PB-ASLA-01) or as a self-paced online course (Item # PB-ASLA-00)
Academic Spanish Language in the K-2 Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-02Academic Spanish Language in the 3-5 Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-03Academic Spanish Language in the Elementary Math Classroom
Item #: PL-ASLA-04
All trainings are offered entirely in Spanish
Contact us for more information about available dates for your district/charter or campus. We have different delivery modalities for this 2-day institute.
Duration: 1 day
Delivery methods: Virtual, face-to-face, or hybrid
The Academic Spanish Language Academy for Educators is designed for all educators who teach Spanish language and literacy, and is appropriate for dual language, bilingual, and world language educators. This course might be for you if you:
- Teach Spanish in a dual language program, as a foreign language, and/or to native speakers of Spanish; or
- Speak Spanish and would like to learn more about why Spanish is the way it is and how it is used in various contexts today
- Work with Spanish-speaking students in any context.