The desk
Learn. Grow. Contribute.
- Learn
- Grow
- Contribute
Three words, in that order. Students learn some French or Spanish. They grow more capable of using it. And then they contribute — because a language you keep to yourself is only half learned. Over three years the aim is not a test score but a person who can reach more of the world than they could before.
The panda in the cape is Simi, who sits on the desk and does not judge anybody's pronunciation. There are two mugs, which is the point — this is a class where a teacher and a student sit on the same side of the problem.
Four verbs hold up the rest of it.
- InquireAsk before you are told. A good question is worth more than a fast answer.
- ImagineTry the sentence you are not sure of yet.
- InterpretWork out what it means from what is in front of you.
- IntegrateCarry it into the next class, the next language, the next conversation.
In this class
What students actually do
Eduagology is the learning site for the French and Spanish classes at Homestead Middle School, in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. It was built and is maintained by the classroom teacher, Tania González, for her own students. It is not a public library, a store, or a social network — every page here is assigned by a teacher and opened by a student signed in to a school account.
Students listen for comprehension, read for understanding, and look for patterns. They meet a word before they meet the rule that explains it. They are asked why they chose an answer, not only whether it was right, and "there is not enough information" is sometimes the correct thing to say.
Work is saved as the student's own evidence. Mistakes stay in the record on purpose, because the record is meant to show how someone got better, not to pretend they were always good.
How a lesson works
Twenty-five steps, one class at a time
Every lesson follows the same path. It opens with the day's agenda and a short cultural segment, then moves through noticing, observing, remembering and discovering before students are asked to produce anything. Later steps ask them to create, repair, build, converse, look closely at the grammar, check their own learning, and reflect on what changed.
The sequence matters more than any single activity. Nobody is asked to speak on a word they have not yet had time to notice.
Courses
What is taught here
- M/J French, Beginning
- First-year French, built on the Bien Dit 1 curriculum.
- M/J Spanish, Beginning
- First-year Spanish, built on the Encuentros 1 curriculum.
- Spanish 2 and Spanish 3
- Continuing sequences for students who have completed earlier levels.
- IB MYP Language Acquisition
- French and Spanish inside the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, following MYP assessment criteria.
Other languages are in development and are not yet open to students.
Grading
How the work is counted
Work done on Eduagology counts as classwork, alongside the workbook, the notebook, and other assigned classroom learning.
- Classwork 40%
- Project 25%
- Participation 25%
- Cooperation 10%
Classwork is on time when it is finished the day it was assigned. A student who hits a real problem is expected to say so before the deadline rather than after it. Grades are posted in the district gradebook, not on this site.
For families
What your student brings
- A charged iPad
- Working headphones
- The My MYP Journey notebook
- The French or Spanish workbook
- A pencil
At the end of class students complete a short self-check called Daily Shine. They mark honestly what they did, name one piece of evidence, and name one thing to improve. It belongs to the student, not to the teacher's gradebook, and it supports recognition such as Student of the Month and IB learner-profile nominations. Honesty is part of shining — "not yet" is information, not failure.
The full syllabus goes home at the start of the year and is posted in Google Classroom. Questions about a student's progress reach Ms. González through the school office.