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Spanish 1 Immersion for Middle School Beginners
Class Experience
US Grade 6 - 9
Beginner Level
This Spanish 1 class uses an immersive style specifically for beginners to prepare students for real-world Spanish. Check the "Teacher Expertise" section to learn about each of our teachers. Fall Semester officially begins the week of August 25th. If you join a class in July or early August, it will be ending August 24th. You can join late, but we recommend joining no later than unit 1.3. Each unit takes around 10 weeks to get through (for the 1 time per week class). Therefore, if you...
This class is taught in Spanish.
- Students will learn how to speak, listen, read and write in this beginner Spanish class. Even if you've taken Spanish 1 for Middle School with us, we recommend joining this class to start speaking and immersing yourself in Spanish.
Teacher Laura Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Languages and a Graduate Certificate in Spanish Language Education. Originally from Colombia, she has been teaching English, French, and Spanish as a second language both in the USA and her home country since 2018, across various educational levels from kindergarten to adult in private and public schools. She is very creative and passionate about languages and cultures, Laura strives to immerse students in the Spanish language while sharing her Latino cultural traditions, customs, and holidays alongside those of other Hispanic countries. Teacher Cecilia Cecilia is a native Spanish speaker. She learned Spanish and English simultaneously. Both of her parents were born in Mexico and she was born and still lives in Chicago. She has taught Spanish 1 & 2 since 2017 at the middle school level. Cecilia studied abroad in Barcelona for half a year and loved learning about the Spanish language through a different perspective. She has a Bachelor of Arts in teaching of Spanish from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is very passionate about teaching Spanish through her culture and giving students the opportunity to learn to love the Spanish language. Teacher Nikki Nikki is the founder of Skillabration. She has been teaching since 2005. She graduated with a bachelor's in Spanish and a master's in education with a focus in Spanish. In 2016 she shifted from public school teaching to teaching online full-time for more freedom and creativity in her work. She taught ESL online from 2016-2020 and shifted to teaching Spanish on Outschool in late 2020. She also taught high school Spanish from 2005-2009, and 2011-2012. She was a middle school bilingual/Spanish/English immersion teacher from 2012-2016. Nikki has had countless experiences traveling to Mexico. She did a cultural exchange for six weeks in Cuautitlan Izcalli in the State of Mexico when she was just 15 years old. She also studied abroad in San Sebastian, Spain for three months the summer before her junior year in college.
We recommend that your learner has a Gmail account because a lot of our resources are best used by making a copy of our Google Documents or Presentations. If you don't have a Gmail account, we can do a work around, but you'll have the best class experience if the learner has a Gmail. Thank you!
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Teacher expertise and credentials
6 teachers have teaching certificates
Illinois Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
South Carolina Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
Wisconsin Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
Non-US Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
Illinois Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
South Carolina Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
3 teachers have a Graduate degree
Master's Degree in Education from DePaul University
Master's Degree in Foreign Language from University of Missouri
Master's Degree in Foreign Language from University of Northern Iowa
7 teachers have a Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from Loyola University Chicago
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Sam Houston State University
Bachelor's Degree in Education from The Open University of Hong Kong
Bachelor's Degree in English from The Open University of Hong Kong
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Language from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Welcome to Skillabration where learning a foreign language is a skill and a celebration. Skillabration helps students ages 8-18 take their world language skills from zero to fuego, preparing them for success as they advance their education....
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Group Class
$15
weekly1x per week
25 min
Completed by 20 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-14
3-10 learners per class