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Mapas
Mapas
MAPAS is a program aimed at North American high school students learning Spanish at the introductory level. Its innovative design follows a project-based, content-focused approach. Its main goal is to stimulate students to build knowledge through explorative and expansive learning. The Spanish classroom becomes a space where students develop 21st-century skills, such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.
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A new Spanish program for
high school
MAPAS is a program aimed at North American high school students learning Spanish at the introductory level. Its innovative design follows a project-based, content-focused approach. Its main goal is to stimulate students to build knowledge through explorative and expansive learning. The Spanish classroom becomes a space where students develop 21st-century skills, such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.
Why MAPAS?
- A contemporary view of Hispanic cultures through engaging texts, themes, and topics. Students are motivated to act and create in Spanish.
- A pedagogical sequence in which grammar, vocabulary, and discourse work towards communication. Students are truly capable of speaking and creating in Spanish.
- Groundbreaking content and language integration. Students use the language in interdisciplinary scenarios related to their own academic experiences, which helps them develop professional skills and prepare for future careers.
- Intercultural competence, enabling critical thinking about essential questions from a multidimensional, contemporary, and inclusive perspective that is free of stereotypes.
- An approach that is open to all learners and all types of intelligences (visual, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.). In addition, its diverse and stimulating vision of cultural realities embraces all the identities and communities in the Hispanic world —and in the students' world as well.
- Options for online, hybrid, and flipped classroom modes, which optimizes class time. Students can prepare independently before the class session thus maximizing classroom communication and collaboration.
- MAPAS is the product of authentic student‑centered design. Students make decisions and create projects which are not only personally relevant but also academically, and they take a leading active role in their own learning.
Program Components
Teacher's Edition
The MAPAS Annotated Teacher's Edition contains an abundance of annotations created to complement various teaching styles, helping you save time in class preparation and course management. It also provide additional ideas on how to expand activities to facilitate even greater learning!
Workbook
The Workbook contains an abundance of activities to practice and expand the grammar and the vocabulary presented in the Student Edition. All the activities are presented as tearable print-outs.
Our digital environment
The KWL Hub offers digital content and resources for students and teachers using MAPAS.
The KWL Hub is designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences in K-12 environments with engaging content and user-friendly tools.
Below, we share the features and supplementary materials included for the program on our platform.
Technology that is affordable,
intuitive, mobile, and accessible to all!
For Students - The KWL Hub
- Digital Student’s book in HTML format, complete with videos, audio files, and narrated texts available in four different varieties of Spanish.
- Grammar video tutorials with exercises
- Pronunciation video tutorials with exercises and helpful tips
- Auto-correcting
- Interactive activities Interactive Quizzes
- Thematic maps
- Vocabulary and Frequent Word combination maps
- Grammar and verb tables
- Videos and transcripts
- Audios and transcripts
- Textos locutados (audio text narrated in four different regional variations of Spanish)
- Textos mapeados (mapped versions of texts)
- Spanish-English and English-Spanish Glossaries
For Instructors - The KWL Hub
- Digital copy of Student’s book with instructor annotations from the Teacher’s Edition (HTML format), along with videos, audio files, and narrated texts available in four different varieties of Spanish
- Grammar video tutorials with corresponding assignments
- Pronunciation video tutorials with corresponding assignments
- Auto-correcting interactive activities you can assign to your students
- Interactive Quizzes
- Ready-to-use tests
- 50 Multiple Choice Questions—one set of 50 questions for each unit Course calendars and sample lesson plans
- Rubrics
- Content creation tools
- Teacher Resources: videos, additional instructional materials, etc.
- Gradebook to evaluate and track students’ progress
- Teacher’s Edition in ‘flipbook’ format
- Student’s book in ‘flipbook’ format
Unique features
Among its many new features, we would like to draw your attention to a particular resource that sets MAPAS apart from other programs: textos mapeados and textos locutados available in different varieties of Spanish.
Textos mapeados
These texts have been transformed into “roadmaps” for students with the following three elements highlighted and color-coded:
- Frequently-used word combinations and phrases
- Common connectors and discourse markers
- Structures that contain verbs, nouns, and adjectives with prepositions
By using this feature, students can exercise the recognition, acquisition and production of a linguistic repertoire that goes beyond simple words, allowing them to communicate with greater fluency and accuracy from the very beginning.
Textos locutados
These texts are read aloud by Spanish-speakers in four different varieties of Spanish: from Colombia, Mexico, Spain, and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Cuba).
This feature allows students to listen to the text while they read along, listen after they have read the text themselves, or practice and check their own Spanish pronunciation, among many other possibilities.
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Contributors & Reviewers
Contributors
Javier Pérez Zapatero
Barnard College (NY)
Lisa Merschel
Duke University (NC)
Francisco Rosales Varo
Columbia University (NY)
Liliana Paredes
Duke University (NC)
Joan Munné
Duke University (NC)
Reviewers
SERGIO ADRADA RAFAEL
Fairfield University, Connecticut
CLARA BURGO
Loyola University Chicago, Illinois
LORENA CAMACHO GUARDADO
The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas
EMILIA CARRILLO
The Gordon School
ESTHER CASTRO-CUENCA
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
ANNA MARIA CEPEDA
Florida Internacional University, Florida
HEATHER COLBURN
Northwestern University, Illinois
JUAN PABLO COMÍNGUEZ
Columbia University, New York
JAIME CORREA
Deerfield Academy
JOSÉ M. DÍAZ
Hunter College High School
ROSALBA ESPARRAGOZA SCOTT
Davidson College
SHARON FERRER
Pembroke Pines Charter High School
ERICA FISCHER
Saint Mary's University, Halifax
ISABEL GARCÍA
Harket School
SUSANA GARCÍA PRUDENCIO
The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania
EVA GÓMEZ GARCÍA
Brown University, Rhode Island
INÉS GÓMEZ-OCHOA
Chapin School
BIANCA GONZÁLEZ
Generations Montessori
GRACIELA HELGUERO-BALCELLS
Northern Virginia Community College, Nova Southeastern University, Florida
JEAN MARI HERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ
Flint Hill School
SAMUEL M. HOWELL
The Nightingale-Bamford School
ANTONIO ILLESCAS
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
AGGIE JOHNSON
Flagler College, Florida
ESTHER LOMAS SAMPEDRO
Fordham University, New York
JOSÉ LUIS LÓPEZ
Watkins Elementary School, Washington
CLAUDIA M. LANGE
Carleton College, Minnesota
MARÍA MERCEDES FREEMAN
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
LISA MERSCHEL
Duke University, North Carolina
LUIS MORALES
Chadwick School
REYES MORÁN
Northwestern University, Illinois
KELLEY MELVIN
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri
ADRIANA MERINO
Princeton University, New Jersey
JOAN MUNNÉ
Duke University, North Carolina
SAMUEL A. NAVARRO ORTEGA
Independent Researcher
LILIANA PAREDES
Duke University, North Carolina
KRISTIN PIAZZA
Flint Hill School
ROBERTO REY AGUDO
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
EDGAR SERRANO
University of Mississippi, Mississippi
VIVIANA SILVA-GIL
St. Luke's School
ESTHER TRUZMAN
New York University, New York
ARIADNA VALLCORBA BELSA
Haleakala Waldorf High School
MARTHA VASQUEZ
San Antonio ISD
SARA VILLA
The New School, New York
MARLENYS VILLAMAR
City University of New York, New York
ANA YÁÑEZ RODRÍGUEZ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
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