This document outlines strategies for 90% target language use and culturally responsive teaching in world language classrooms. It discusses building relationships through authentic communication and setting the tone for target language use from day one. Culturally responsive teaching focuses on relationships, rigor defined as proficiency, relevance through meaningful themes and essential questions, and creating real and authentic experiences. The document provides examples for how to implement these strategies in the classroom.
This document discusses using folktales to teach language and culture. It proposes exploring how to create thematic units centered around folktales that teach language concepts while reinforcing cultural understanding. The presenter aims to provide strategies for novice teachers and learners to stay in the target language. Neuroscience research is discussed showing how stories activate more areas of the brain than plain facts alone. Various forms of assessment centered around folktales are proposed, including illustrating stories, acting out tales, discussing characters, and writing original legends.
This document discusses how words are comprised of sounds and contain meanings, as well as optional and required semantic and grammatical information. Words also relate to other words through co-location patterns.
This document outlines strategies for 90% target language use and culturally responsive teaching in world language classrooms. It discusses building relationships through authentic communication and setting the tone for target language use from day one. Culturally responsive teaching focuses on relationships, rigor defined as proficiency, relevance through meaningful themes and essential questions, and creating real and authentic experiences. The document provides examples for how to implement these strategies in the classroom.
This document discusses using folktales to teach language and culture. It proposes exploring how to create thematic units centered around folktales that teach language concepts while reinforcing cultural understanding. The presenter aims to provide strategies for novice teachers and learners to stay in the target language. Neuroscience research is discussed showing how stories activate more areas of the brain than plain facts alone. Various forms of assessment centered around folktales are proposed, including illustrating stories, acting out tales, discussing characters, and writing original legends.
This document discusses how words are comprised of sounds and contain meanings, as well as optional and required semantic and grammatical information. Words also relate to other words through co-location patterns.
Classroom management in a foreign language classroom is challenging but important for maximizing instruction time. Effective classroom management requires being proactive rather than reactive through establishing clear expectations, using a commanding teacher persona, seizing control on the first day of class, having a decisive yet compassionate voice, and building relationships with students. It also relies on developing a shared sense of responsibility, inviting student voice, and leveraging motivators like cultural imitation, goal setting, and grades to convince students to meet behavioral expectations.
The document discusses strategies for designing instruction to improve students' interpersonal communication skills for interacting with native speakers in real-time. It defines the interpersonal mode as spoken or signed interactions that involve negotiating meaning, asking clarifying questions, sharing information and opinions, and expressing reactions and feelings. It then provides examples of communication situations that utilize interpersonal skills and presents strategies for practicing the interpersonal mode, including various seating configurations, sentence starters, reaction words, and impromptu conversation scaffolds.
Studying rigorous language courses provides several benefits. It improves cognitive skills like flexible thinking and intercultural understanding. Proficiency in additional languages can open up career opportunities in fields like teaching, social work, customer service, healthcare, the military and more that require strong language abilities.
This document discusses improving language teaching methods by focusing on essential communication skills rather than excessive grammar and vocabulary. It recommends simplifying unit planning around key questions and purposes for interpersonal speaking, interpretive listening and reading, and presentational writing. The most effective factors for fluency are comprehensible input from authentic texts, interaction with native speakers, and intrinsic motivation rather than discrete grammar instruction. Sample unit essential questions, conversation goals, writing prompts, and input texts are provided as examples.
The document discusses strategies for helping students understand target languages without relying on English translations. It presents examples of using visuals and animations, designing scaffolded conversation experiences, implementing micro-practice and short-practice sessions, using body language and checking for understanding, empowering student-led construction of meaning, teaching clarification strategies, and using instruction time for scaffolded expression practice. Teachers are also encouraged to display high-frequency expressions and use communication breakdowns to identify needed vocabulary.
The document discusses strategies for increasing target language use in the classroom, including aiming for 90% or more instruction in the target language, changing student beliefs about their ability to understand and speak the language, planning opportunities for target language use, and holding all students accountable for using the target language. It also mentions collaborating with students and assessing target language use over time.
This document outlines Paris Granville's best first day of teaching ever. It includes an introduction where she introduces herself in the target language of French. The rest of the document provides tips for teaching such as greeting students in the target language, using the target language for 90% of class time, engaging students in group discussions, and not being afraid of challenges when using the target language.
This document outlines challenges for streamlining world language planning and provides collaboration opportunities to address those challenges. It discusses 6 common challenges: finding materials, determining purpose, managing time, integrating technology, sharing plans, and creating sub plans. It then lists collaboration opportunities through professional organizations, an online course, and paid professional development days for world language teachers to get support.
This document outlines a process for providing feedback to colleagues on their teaching. It involves teachers silently writing for 5 minutes about an observation, the observed teacher speaking for 2 minutes, exploring the lesson in groups for 8 minutes, and concluding with a 5 minute conversation. The overall goal is to use structured feedback from peers to improve teaching practices.
This document discusses the establishment of the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy. The Seal of Biliteracy recognizes public high school graduates who have attained proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more languages in addition to English. It notes that bilingual students tend to score higher on the SATs and that Washington's exports and agriculture industry benefit from bilingual citizens and foreign students studying in the state. The document outlines the timeline of establishing the Seal of Biliteracy through state legislation and administrative code from 2014 onward.
The document discusses Washington state's Seal of Biliteracy program which recognizes high school graduates who have attained high-level proficiency in a second language in addition to English. It notes that being biliterate can have economic benefits for students in terms of exports, foreign students visiting, and agriculture. It encourages feedback on draft criteria for the seal and discusses key elements of the establishing law, including encouraging school districts to participate.
Classroom management in a foreign language classroom is challenging but important for maximizing instruction time. Effective classroom management requires being proactive rather than reactive through establishing clear expectations, using a commanding teacher persona, seizing control on the first day of class, having a decisive yet compassionate voice, and building relationships with students. It also relies on developing a shared sense of responsibility, inviting student voice, and leveraging motivators like cultural imitation, goal setting, and grades to convince students to meet behavioral expectations.
The document discusses strategies for designing instruction to improve students' interpersonal communication skills for interacting with native speakers in real-time. It defines the interpersonal mode as spoken or signed interactions that involve negotiating meaning, asking clarifying questions, sharing information and opinions, and expressing reactions and feelings. It then provides examples of communication situations that utilize interpersonal skills and presents strategies for practicing the interpersonal mode, including various seating configurations, sentence starters, reaction words, and impromptu conversation scaffolds.
Studying rigorous language courses provides several benefits. It improves cognitive skills like flexible thinking and intercultural understanding. Proficiency in additional languages can open up career opportunities in fields like teaching, social work, customer service, healthcare, the military and more that require strong language abilities.
This document discusses improving language teaching methods by focusing on essential communication skills rather than excessive grammar and vocabulary. It recommends simplifying unit planning around key questions and purposes for interpersonal speaking, interpretive listening and reading, and presentational writing. The most effective factors for fluency are comprehensible input from authentic texts, interaction with native speakers, and intrinsic motivation rather than discrete grammar instruction. Sample unit essential questions, conversation goals, writing prompts, and input texts are provided as examples.
The document discusses strategies for helping students understand target languages without relying on English translations. It presents examples of using visuals and animations, designing scaffolded conversation experiences, implementing micro-practice and short-practice sessions, using body language and checking for understanding, empowering student-led construction of meaning, teaching clarification strategies, and using instruction time for scaffolded expression practice. Teachers are also encouraged to display high-frequency expressions and use communication breakdowns to identify needed vocabulary.
The document discusses strategies for increasing target language use in the classroom, including aiming for 90% or more instruction in the target language, changing student beliefs about their ability to understand and speak the language, planning opportunities for target language use, and holding all students accountable for using the target language. It also mentions collaborating with students and assessing target language use over time.
This document outlines Paris Granville's best first day of teaching ever. It includes an introduction where she introduces herself in the target language of French. The rest of the document provides tips for teaching such as greeting students in the target language, using the target language for 90% of class time, engaging students in group discussions, and not being afraid of challenges when using the target language.
This document outlines challenges for streamlining world language planning and provides collaboration opportunities to address those challenges. It discusses 6 common challenges: finding materials, determining purpose, managing time, integrating technology, sharing plans, and creating sub plans. It then lists collaboration opportunities through professional organizations, an online course, and paid professional development days for world language teachers to get support.
This document outlines a process for providing feedback to colleagues on their teaching. It involves teachers silently writing for 5 minutes about an observation, the observed teacher speaking for 2 minutes, exploring the lesson in groups for 8 minutes, and concluding with a 5 minute conversation. The overall goal is to use structured feedback from peers to improve teaching practices.
This document discusses the establishment of the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy. The Seal of Biliteracy recognizes public high school graduates who have attained proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more languages in addition to English. It notes that bilingual students tend to score higher on the SATs and that Washington's exports and agriculture industry benefit from bilingual citizens and foreign students studying in the state. The document outlines the timeline of establishing the Seal of Biliteracy through state legislation and administrative code from 2014 onward.
The document discusses Washington state's Seal of Biliteracy program which recognizes high school graduates who have attained high-level proficiency in a second language in addition to English. It notes that being biliterate can have economic benefits for students in terms of exports, foreign students visiting, and agriculture. It encourages feedback on draft criteria for the seal and discusses key elements of the establishing law, including encouraging school districts to participate.