Foreign Language Methods

Understanding Differentiated Instruction Knowing and Assessing Students How Learning Profiles Can Strengthen Your Teaching, by John McCarthy (2014)Here's a heretical notion: learning profiles can actually benefit students. McCarthy shares some tips. Tools for Teaching: Ditching the Deficit Model, by Rebecca Alber (2013)Alber proposes five activities for gaining knowledge about your students' strengths, interests, and hidden talents.

Aww, bless you for asking a geek about his area of geekery. I'm a grad student in Second Language Acquisition, so this is kind of my steeze. **Histor...

Last Thursday, Langchatters were so eager to discuss how to move students to a "novice-high" level that they were already tweeting on the topic before the first question was posted! In this Q&A #langchat, participants covered lots of ground.

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Welcome, Spanish language educators for all grade levels! We realize the importance of assessing and gauging the progress of your students' speaking skills, and we understand the challenges you face in this evaluation process. Introduction to Oral Proficiency Levels is a free open educational resource (OER) that can help you gain a foundational understanding of how to evaluate Spanish speakers.

When I started teaching, I knew one thing: I didn't want to teach language the way I was taught. When I was in jr. high and high school, I learned about Spanish (in English), but I never used it. I got A's in all of my Spanish classes because I could conjugate verbs and translate...

Daily collaborative planning time at Mesquite Elementary enables teachers to plan differentiated instruction to address the progress of each student. Credit: Zachary Fink Tips for downloading: PDF files can be viewed on a wide variety of platforms -- both as a browser plug-in or a stand-alone application -- with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader program.

This month I am celebrating my first year anniversary using Integrated Performance Assessments (IPA) in my classroom. This kind of assessment has simply transformed the way I teach. I just finished re-reading my posts about my first IPA and my second IPA. I cannot believe how much I have grown since then!

Do you ever feel stuck in a rut while planning your language classes? Perhaps you spend a lot of time lecturing at the white board, use the same activities with different vocabulary for every unit, or rely on teaching students grammar because that's how you were taught.

If you are teaching English Language Learners, here are some tips and strategies that you can practice in the classroom to create a safe environment and support the students throughout their learning process: Speak slower, not louder : Students need to process the words separately and form an understanding, for ELL students this requires some extra time.

By Samantha Cleaver When fourth-grade students in Becca Morris's class start listening to R.J. Palacio's Wonder, she looks forward to the discussion it will inspire, with questions like "What does it mean to be a true friend?" "What's the role of the bystander in bullying situations?"

This paper revisits again Krashen's hypothesis, making a special emphasis on the Input Hypothesis, his implications for the classroom and the criticisms to his hypothesis.

8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. Bringing technology into the classroom often winds up an awkward mash-up between the laws of Murphy and Moore: What can go wrong, will - only faster. It's a multi-headed challenge: Teachers need to connect with classrooms filled with distinct individuals.

If you are teaching English Language Learners, here are some tips and strategies that you can practice in the classroom to create a safe environment and support the students throughout their learning process: Speak slower, not louder : Students need to process the words separately and form an understanding, for ELL students this requires some extra time.

Classroom management is a delicate balancing act often learned through experience and trial-and-error experimentation. Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, having strategies for effective classroom management is essential for creating positive, successful learning spaces (and staying sane!). In this guide you'll find 25 tips for managing your classroom.