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1. Are you a student?
 Yes No

If yes, where are you enrolled?

2. Please indicate your level of Spanish proficiency.
Reading  None Basic Proficient Fluent
Writing  None Basic Proficient Fluent

Speaking  None Basic Proficient Fluent

Language Proficiency Key:
None: No proficiency in the Spanish Language.
Basic: The ability to make oneself understood in simple, commonplace interactions.
Proficient: Advanced ability to communicate and understand complex ideas in Spanish, such as explaining simple newspaper articles or television reports. The ability to give presentations on topics in Spanish.
Fluent: Native Spanish speaker, or the ability to discuss scholarly ideas in Spanish, conduct research in Spanish, and communicate with a variety of Spanish speakers in a wide variety of situations.

3. A) For Spanish speakers: Please describe any formal, classroom education in Spanish—including courses completed, AP/IB scores, etc. if applicable. Also, please describe any experience you have with Spanish outside of the classroom (e.g. living in a Spanish-speaking community, jobs, exchange programs, etc. Please answer the question in Spanish

B) For Non-Spanish Speakers: If you are not a Spanish speaker and plan on learning Spanish while in Otavalo, please briefly describe any languages you have taken within the past two years, and the skills you possess that will help you to overcome language barriers in the classroom.

C) Please describe any experience you have with Spanish outside of the classroom (e.g.: living in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood, exchange programs, jobs, etc.)

D) If you plan on learning Spanish in Otavalo, please briefly describe what skills you have that would help you overcome language barriers in the classroom.

3. How comfortable would you be teaching the follow subjects at the seventh grade level? Math courses will include fractions, division and simple geometry. English courses will include basic nouns, pronouns and verbs. (1 = Uncomfortable, 8 = Very Comfortable)
Math 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
English 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4. Which is your preferred start date?
 June 19 July 3 July 17

What is your preferred duration of stay (3-10 weeks)?

5. Provide at least one example of your teaching experience. This can be a formal teaching experience, or simply an example of assisting a friend, or an activity in which you regularly teach others.

6. Please list three activities that are significant to you, and that demonstrate leadership and initiative.
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Hours per week

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Hours per week

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Office(s) held or honor(s) received
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Hours per week

7. Describe your most memorable teaching moment. You can write about an experience in which you were the teacher or the learner, and you can describe an experience that was either positive or negative. Use your answer to illustrate qualities that define a good teacher, or a good teaching experience.

8. You are a VEP volunteer currently teaching in Otavalo. Propose a twenty-minute activity to teach your students one of the following lessons (your choice): A) English: The present-tense conjugations of the verb "to run." B) Math: The geometry concept of area, including the formula A=LW.

9. In one of your classes, you find that the same three students answer all of the questions and dominate the classroom activity while the rest of the students sit quietly with their heads on their desks. How would you make sure that all of the student are participating in the lesson? Provide examples of actions you would take and how these actions would "bring in" the disengaged students.