Greg Stevens

Greg Stevens

Greg Stevens teaches Spanish in San Francisco, California. He is the AP Spanish teacher and a Comprehension-Based Methods coach for new foreign language teachers. His school district has officially adopted Blaine Ray's Look, I Can Talk materials district-wide and are implementing Comprehension-Based Methods one level at a time in a pilot program.

After attending one workshop in San Francisco in 2005 with Karen Rowan, Greg began using the coaching chapter in Fluency Through TPR Storytelling to coach himself one skill at a time. At the National TPRS Conference in Vermont in 2006 his remarkable talent at Comprehension-Based Methods was so evident he was hired to work for Fluency Fast on the spot.

Greg now teaches our Advanced Spanish for non-native Spanish teachers class, our highest level of Spanish. The class is intended for Spanish teachers whose proficiency in Spanish does not yet allow them to teach third, fourth or AP level classes. French teachers who are required to also teach Spanish but find their Spanish too rusty also benefit from the class. The class is taught at approximately the Spanish 4 or 5 level, using advanced structures, imperfect subjunctive, if clauses and present subjunctive in TPR Stories. Teachers acquire fluency in Spanish the same way their students do and are subsequently more confident in presenting advanced structures in their classes. This class includes extensive, high frequency vocabulary, junk reading and discussion as well as stories and is presented entirely in Spanish. Teachers also have access to free reading materials that they can check out throughout the course of the class. Class contact time is approximately 15 hours and total hours including outside work are approximately 30 hours.

Greg has also worked for Blaine Ray Workshops, Inc as a coach and presenter. Greg will present Advanced Spanish for non-native Spanish teachers in July, 2008 at the Denver Language Institute and at the NTPRS® Pre-conference.

Education:

University of California Berkeley, Graduated 1990
    BA in Classical Greek and a Minor in Spanish

Single Subject Credential, Spanish, California State University, San Francisco, 1997

Professional Experience

Spanish Teacher
    Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA, 1998 to present.
    Currently Department Chair and designated TPRS coach for Redwood High School.

Fluency Fast Language Teacher
    Advanced Spanish (TPRS) class, July 2007 Denver, Colorado
    Assisted at TPRS coaching workshop in San Francisco, August 2007

    Studied and worked for 2 years in Central and South America, 1978-1980

    Attended Blaine Ray Workshop with Karen Rowan, June 2005

    Attended National TPRS Conference, Burlington, VT, Summer 2006

References

    References are available upon request

To inquire about Spanish classes, contact Fluency Fast.

Upcoming Spanish Classes.

Greg's Spanish has been called "majesterial" by his colleagues. While participating in Jason Fritze's Sevillanas class at the Denver Language Institute, he also demonstrated his graceful moves.