Hola, y bienvenido a mi Aula!
My name is David Graef, and I recently have been hired as a Spanish Teacher. This coming year will be my first year teaching, and I'm very excited for this opportunity. I love learning languages, and Spanish is one of my favorites.
Here's just a little bit about me! I studied Spanish for two years in high school and fell in love with learning that language. My aptitude for learning Spanish stuck out to me, but I didn't think much of it; I just enjoyed learning it a lot. When I graduated, I moved to Romania right away as a missionary with my family. Within three months I was speaking fluently, and it took me a year to grasp understanding the language; I was kind of backwards from most people's learning experience. When I picked up Romanian so easily, which was something that my friends were telling me they had never seen done so easily before, I realized that God had given me a special talent for learning languages. Over the course of the next 4 years of my college career, I had the opportunity to brush up on my Spanish, pick up Portuguese, study Hungarian, Koine Greek, and French.
After I graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a B.A in Applied Linguistics and a minor in Foreign Languages, I moved to Oahu, HI to be near the side of the family that was in the United States still. Eventually I landed a job as a barista with Starbucks. I already drank coffee, but I didn't have a passion for it until I learned a lot from that job. When the Hanalani posted an opening for Spanish Teacher, I switched careers and took it as a blessing that God was providing a career that uses my degree. I learned that the barista can leave the coffee shop, but the barista in me and my love for coffee will never leave me.
This is where I am now, where God has me and I am content to do my best here. I feel blessed that God has given me this opportunity. Not everybody gets to use their degree in a career that they love.
This being my first year teaching ever, my goal for this blog is to use it as a way to reflect on how I am doing, as well as an opportunity to give and receive input. I intend for most of my posts to be just my reflection notes that I will be taking throughout the year. In order for my notes to make sense, it's important to note that the school I work at is College prep school that is attempting to incorporate Gold Standard PBL as a means of learning. I'm very excited for that, as I think that PBL is a perfect environment for language learning.
I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy teaching and processing our classroom experience!
David Graef
My name is David Graef, and I recently have been hired as a Spanish Teacher. This coming year will be my first year teaching, and I'm very excited for this opportunity. I love learning languages, and Spanish is one of my favorites.
Here's just a little bit about me! I studied Spanish for two years in high school and fell in love with learning that language. My aptitude for learning Spanish stuck out to me, but I didn't think much of it; I just enjoyed learning it a lot. When I graduated, I moved to Romania right away as a missionary with my family. Within three months I was speaking fluently, and it took me a year to grasp understanding the language; I was kind of backwards from most people's learning experience. When I picked up Romanian so easily, which was something that my friends were telling me they had never seen done so easily before, I realized that God had given me a special talent for learning languages. Over the course of the next 4 years of my college career, I had the opportunity to brush up on my Spanish, pick up Portuguese, study Hungarian, Koine Greek, and French.
After I graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a B.A in Applied Linguistics and a minor in Foreign Languages, I moved to Oahu, HI to be near the side of the family that was in the United States still. Eventually I landed a job as a barista with Starbucks. I already drank coffee, but I didn't have a passion for it until I learned a lot from that job. When the Hanalani posted an opening for Spanish Teacher, I switched careers and took it as a blessing that God was providing a career that uses my degree. I learned that the barista can leave the coffee shop, but the barista in me and my love for coffee will never leave me.
This is where I am now, where God has me and I am content to do my best here. I feel blessed that God has given me this opportunity. Not everybody gets to use their degree in a career that they love.
This being my first year teaching ever, my goal for this blog is to use it as a way to reflect on how I am doing, as well as an opportunity to give and receive input. I intend for most of my posts to be just my reflection notes that I will be taking throughout the year. In order for my notes to make sense, it's important to note that the school I work at is College prep school that is attempting to incorporate Gold Standard PBL as a means of learning. I'm very excited for that, as I think that PBL is a perfect environment for language learning.
I hope you enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy teaching and processing our classroom experience!
David Graef
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