Help Publish Manuel Ramos Montes' Innovative Teaching Guide

Dear donor,

I hope this message finds you very well. My name is Manuel Ramos Montes, PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures, former Assistant Professor of Spanish, award-winning author, and lifelong learner.

I am excited to tell you about the educational campaign I’m running to cover the expenses for the publication, press release, advertising, social media promotion, distribution, and peer-reviewing of my book When Students Find Their Own Voice. A Teaching Guide to Improve Your Conversation and Composition Course. This bilingual work is mainly oriented to Spanish language professors at the college level and is the result of over a decade of experience in American classrooms.

This short, simple yet substantial guide is an innovative, fully immersive, and highly effective turnaround in conventional teaching, making the use of any textbook unnecessary and presenting a creative and life-changing model for meaningful interaction between passionate educators and dedicated students who are learning Spanish.

Rooted in my progressively successful attempts to make my Conversation and Composition classes unforgettable and unique every semester throughout many years of practice, this guide aims to contribute to a much-needed change in the current educational system, that of keeping future professionals really engaged, motivated, and inspired by their own individual learning processes and outcomes and those of their classmates.

Thanks to your greatly appreciated donation, college professors and graduate students around the country will have the chance to benefit from a carefully developed material that is designed to transform their academic challenges into an enjoyable and very stimulating dialogue that will foster self-growth and have a positive, long-term impact on their careers.

Being a professor has been one of my most valuable life experiences. Several wonderful students taught me quite a lot about the human capacity to successfully fulfil a goal when one is provided with the opportunity to be guided with freedom, attention, and respect. My way of giving back at least in part the great deal of knowledge that I received from them is this practical book, inspired by their enthusiasm and their rightful need for a renewed instruction that actually resonates and speaks to them as individuals, even beyond the academic requirements.

I had the privilege of helping a number of bright young scholars to find their own voices in Spanish by implementing this very distinctive mode of language skills acquisition that took me years to create. With your kind support, many other professors will be able to do the same for their students.

With gratitude,

Manuel Ramos Montes.