Teaching Foreign Languages: Delivering the Message
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. In this session, you will explore the organization of effective presentational tasks that help students focus on particular audiences. You will examine methods of helping students build strategies for completing written and oral presentational tasks and explore how you might spiral tasks to make them appropriate for students at different proficiency levels. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Subjects Matter
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session addresses strategies for promoting language learning within the context of other curriculum areas, such as science and language arts. You will explore ways to effectively integrate content into language learning and choose the appropriate content according to your students' various ages and proficiency levels. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Rooted in Culture
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session focuses on how to integrate cultural concepts into your foreign language teaching or extend the cultural content in your existing lessons. You will also analyze ways to move your students from a basic understanding of cultural products and practices toward a deeper sense of cultural perspectives, both in the target culture and in their own culture. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Valuing Diversity in Learners
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session addresses how to respond to the diversity of learners in a foreign language classroom. You will reflect on student differences that can affect foreign language instruction and learning -- such as varying literacy and language skills, cultural backgrounds and experiences, and learning disabilities and approaches -- and consider strategies for helping all students progress in their learning. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Planning for Assessment
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session examines how assessment can be embedded in relevant, meaningful, and authentic performance tasks throughout the year. You will explore ways of planning and carrying out assessments that inform both you and your students about their progress. You will also look at ways to provide students with feedback that helps them track their language acquisition. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Engaging With Communities
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. It features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the workshop videos to illustrate the ideas being discussed. In this session, you will identify opportunities for students to use the target language with native or fluent speakers. In exploring such community interactions, you will examine ways to prepare the students and native speakers prior to their interactions. You will learn to monitor and assist during the interactions, and debrief the interactions to ensure a successful experience for all.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: Standards and the Five Cs
This video is an introduction to the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning. The standards define what students should know and be able to do in foreign language education. Through classroom examples and interviews with teachers, students, and experts in the field, this program begins to show how a range of teachers are using the standards to advance their students' foreign language skills and engage them in lifelong learning.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: Assessment Strategies
This course introduces assessment strategies aligned with the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning, state and district standards, and curriculum and instructional practices. Three case studies with comments from teachers, students, and experts in the field illustrate how several teachers are assessing their students' foreign language skills.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: Chicken Pox
In this course, students demonstrate their knowledge of body parts. They begin by talking about the chicken pox and reading Marc Brown's story, Arthur a la Varicelle (Arthur has the Chicken Pox). Then they sing a song about the chicken pox that names different parts of the body. Finally, students do a cut-and-paste activity, labeling a drawing of a person with words for body parts that they had practiced in the song.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: Mapping Planet Earth
In this course, students practice vocabulary for the continents and oceans. They begin by reviewing vocabulary for the solar system, then narrow their focus to planet Earth. Finally, as a class and in pairs, students practice the continents and oceans vocabulary using Total Physical Response and maps.