¡Hola y bienvenidos! I'm Katherine Lupton and I am a Spanish Instructor and Graduate Student at Portland State University. Before moving to Portland, Oregon, I served as an International Baccalaureate Spanish teacher at Baltimore City College High School, a public school in Baltimore, MD. Before moving to Baltimore, I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon and taught English at a public school in Madrid, Spain for two years. While in Spain, I perfected my Spanish and integrated myself into the local culture.
As a student of the public school system myself, I am an advocate for quality education in public schools and work to assure all of my students have access to opportunities to succeed. As a high school and college-level Spanish teacher, I consistently integrate the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) style foreign language teaching into my classroom instruction. While teaching in Baltimore, I involved my students with the Advocacy Project, a project I created that partnered students with community groups in Baltimore City. We worked together at volunteer events that promoted the Latino community in Baltimore, while also improving my student's Spanish proficiency. In June 2015, I took a group of students from Baltimore to Cuba, and we became the first high school group in the state of Maryland to travel to Cuba. In 2015, I represented Baltimore as one of three finalists in the national Sue Lehmann Teaching Award, and in 2017 I was named as a Semi-Finalist for the Kennedy Leadership Award for Teaching Excellence. I also currently serve as an International Baccalaureate Examiner for the IBO.
This website represents a collection of my favorite lesson plans, service learning projects, and travel stories. I hope that the website will serve as a resource for Spanish teachers around the world.
Thank you for visiting!
As a student of the public school system myself, I am an advocate for quality education in public schools and work to assure all of my students have access to opportunities to succeed. As a high school and college-level Spanish teacher, I consistently integrate the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) style foreign language teaching into my classroom instruction. While teaching in Baltimore, I involved my students with the Advocacy Project, a project I created that partnered students with community groups in Baltimore City. We worked together at volunteer events that promoted the Latino community in Baltimore, while also improving my student's Spanish proficiency. In June 2015, I took a group of students from Baltimore to Cuba, and we became the first high school group in the state of Maryland to travel to Cuba. In 2015, I represented Baltimore as one of three finalists in the national Sue Lehmann Teaching Award, and in 2017 I was named as a Semi-Finalist for the Kennedy Leadership Award for Teaching Excellence. I also currently serve as an International Baccalaureate Examiner for the IBO.
This website represents a collection of my favorite lesson plans, service learning projects, and travel stories. I hope that the website will serve as a resource for Spanish teachers around the world.
Thank you for visiting!