Teacher comes from Spain to teach dual-immersion kindergarten

D�ez Valcarcel, 30, came to Corvallis two months ago from Madrid, Spain, to teach music and Spanish at Lincoln for one year, through a program of the Spanish Ministry of Education. As part of Lincoln School�s Spanish-English dual-immersion program, D�ez Valcarcel will teach half of his classes in Spanish and half in English throughout the year. This week, the kindergarten class was conducted, for the most part, in Spanish. �Fuerte! Fuerte!� D�ez Valcarcel called out as the children clapped to the rhythm of another selection of classical music. A few times, when frustrated with the task of directing the kindergarteners from one activity to another, he would lapse into English.