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Frameworks are intended to be models for articulating desired results, assessment processes, and teaching-learning activities that can maximize student achievement relative to the Georgia Performance Standards. They may provide Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, tasks/activities, culminating tasks, rubrics, and resources for the units.

How do we manage activities in a PBLL class?

"This article offers a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read."

"Building reading competence seems to be a bit more challenging these days. Maybe it's just me, but students seem quite reluctant or incapable of guessing while reading. We have to provide a comfortable environment to encourage guessing. Moreover, teachers need to find ways of attracting students to reading of any kind-for information [see http://flava2011.wikispaces.com%5D and for pleasure. I feel it's somehow related to our testing culture that demands 'the right answer.' So how can we build reading? -By following what good parents do with children as they grow. Read children's books to your students-in class or in a reading circle on the floor in the library. Let students read for fun without an assignment attached. Or, read with a fun assignment. Read song lyrics and use them for a variety of reading steps: pick out words you can guess, pick out verbs that look similar to ones you've seen recently, which activities refer to a future event?, which phrases use an object pronoun? Which words go along with our area of study [Earth Day for example] Look at a related website and repeat the steps above. When does the song change from lyrics in one language to another? Link reading to a visual and show the visual first-a personal video, a tourism clip, a feature film. I used to think this was the reward after the reading, but so many topics can be enhanced if you teach about them saying: remember when you saw… [A previous student's video about daily routines, the advertisement for the Col Vert campground, Petit Nicolas, The Phantom of the Opera are such examples worth a preview."

Article supporting a proposition to expand sport and leisure activities for people with disabilities.

sport and leisure activities in Sénégal

Detailed info on Hunan - maybe use to do a literacy activity for interp communication

A teacher's Pinterest board with various winter-related activities.

Winter sports and activities in Quebec

Winter sports and activities in Austria

Winter activities for the whole family

"The research refers to children raised with a language at home that differs from the dominant language outside the home, such as in school. Compared to monolinguals, the bilingual children develop greater attention focus, distraction resistance, decision-making judgment and responsiveness to feedback. The correlated fMRI scans of these children reveal more activity in the prefrontal cortex networks that control these executive functions. "

"What is it? Here's an article by BIE, updated from its original appearance in the September 2010 issue of Educational Leadership magazine from ASCD. Good for general audiences as well as educators, it explains the essential elements that make rigorous PBL different from "doing projects." Why do we like it? This article was written because some teachers say they "do projects" already (so why learn more about PBL) and some educators and members of the general public may have negative stereotypes of PBL as merely a "fun" or "hands-on" activity. How can you use it? Share this article with anyone, from teachers to parents to administrators, to explain PBL and provide a common framework for projects. The 8 Essential Elements are the basis of BIE's Project Design Rubric and PBL 101 Workshop."

What do you think of when you think of your Target Language country/countries? While you may have spent some time there - and traveled to various spots - your students may have not. As a Japanese teacher it seems that Tokyo is the number 1 'want to go to' place for my students. However, as I spent my first 2 years in Japan in smaller more out of the way places, I want my students to learn that there's more to Japan than the big urban areas. And so the Year4 travel fair - a summative activity at the end of a 2-week unit - was born. It allows students to utilize key words they will need if/when they visit Japan - and also allows them to research and introduce key areas to their classmates during an interactive oral. For me the fair takes a week - with time spent planning/preparing for the 'fair', running the fair and then using the information for a written 'summative' evaluation. (My handout - for my Yr4 Japanese class including is here) The premise: Design an optional tour for a visitor to Japan - one that is outside major urban areas (I list the 'no go' places). This can be a 2 or 3 day tour.

t's no secret that curiosity makes learning more effective and enjoyable. Curious students not only ask questions, but also actively seek out the answers. Without curiosity, Sir Isaac Newton would have never formulated the laws of physics, Alexander Fleming probably wouldn't have discovered penicillin, and Marie Curie's pioneering research on radioactivity may not exist.

Great tips for using social media in the WL class!

Information on children's book to use for an interpretive activity

Great website with lots of activities involving French music

Édith Piaf, née Édith Giovanna Gassion le 19 décembre 1915 à Paris et morte le 10 octobre 1963 à Grasse, est une chanteuse française de music-hall. Archétype de la chanteuse grasseyante par son roulement des r, elle est l'une des dernières interprètes de la chanson réaliste française. Cinquante ans après sa mort, elle demeure la plus célèbre chanteuse francophone à travers le monde. Surnommée à ses débuts « la Môme Piaf », elle est à l'origine de nombreux succès devenus des classiques du répertoire, comme La Vie en rose, Non, je ne regrette rien, l'Hymne à l'amour, Mon légionnaire, La Foule, Milord, Mon Dieu ou encore L'Accordéoniste. Chanteuse à l'interprétation et la voix saisissante, elle a inspiré de nombreux compositeurs, a été le mentor d'artistes plus jeunes tels qu'Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Les Compagnons de la chanson, Georges Moustaki, et a connu une renommée internationale, malgré une fin de carrière rendue difficile par de graves problèmes de santé et une mort survenue à seulement 47 ans.

News story relating men's and women's volleyball results in Haïti