<< ¡Bienvenidos mis estudiantes! >> are the first words students hear upon entering through the door. Inspiration and motivation fills the room. Students ready and eager to learn. Continuing their journey through learning a new language to prosper in the real world.
Students walk in hopeful and yearn to continue to learn Spanish in Marisa Eckerson’s Spanish 3-4 class. Her class emphasizes growth and self-pace. No high expectations to meet, just opportunities to grow.
Ms. Eckerson provides everyone a chance to prosper and thrive in her class. In the class students practice new vocabulary every day, learn new tenses to describe verbs, like the preterite and imperfect tense, to conjugate words to the correct form, and to learn words and phrases used in real life to connect with people around the globe with their native tongue.
In her class students mostly engage in conversations throughout the period with other students, collaborate with others on projects, watch cultural videos, study literature and stories, and watch movies in Spanish.
The whole class highlights comprehension and understanding the Spanish language, used all around the globe, to navigate with others. Learning new languages presents many new opportunities; such as job opportunities, networking opportunities, makes travel easy to connect with natives, and connecting with new people and cultures.
Being in this Spanish class is like traveling and uncovering unknown land.
Ms. Eckerson provides great and effective ways to help students retain the knowledge and new Spanish words learned. She creatively makes games and projects to help students be engaged and want to keep on learning. She hand-crafts games that students can better understand to conjugate words correctly. Hands out a new Spanish crosswords puzzle every unit to allow the mind to be challenged while having fun and learning.
“I like how she uses games to help study,” Sophomore Piper Bianco said.
While some enjoy the materials Ms. Eckerson gives to help prepare, others enjoy the way the content is taught.
Freshman Madison Hendricks said, “Mrs. Eckerson taught me a lot and really helped me improve on Spanish.”
Not only do the students like the way the content is being presented, but also what new things they encounter and learn.
Bianco said she liked learning more about “the Hispanic culture” and other cultures that are explored and the roots of the Spanish language learned throughout the school year.
These student testimonies are just a slight glimpse of what Ms. Eckerson’s Spanish 3-4 class is like, there are many more amazing things that went unsaid.
Talk to your counselors to sign up for Spanish 3-4 for the 2025-2026 school year to discover it yourself, request Ms. Eckerson to be your teacher!
