Resources for Teaching & Learning

General Resources

• CollegeBoard - AP Central
• Professional Learning Resources to Support STARTALK-Endorsed Principles
• Proficiency-Oriented Language Instruction and Assessment: A Curriculum Handbook for Teachers (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)

Authentic Resources

• BBC in other languages
• Pinterest
  • A useful hashtag: #AuthResAugust.
  • Also check out Laura Terrill's collection
• ACTFL Padlet: What is your favorite #AuthRes to share with students?
• Authentic Resource Activities for World Language Teachers A spreadsheet of Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese resource compiled by Julie Caldarone.
• Choose My Plate (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• New York Times: What's Going On In This Picture? Intriguing Times images stripped of their captions--and an invitation to students to discuss them live.
• Ohio Department of Education: Instructional and Authentic Resources This page has dozens of great links such as: Using authentic resources; Saving internet videos; Finding IPAs, video series, music, practice websites, podcasts.
• TELL Project Session on Authentic Resources

Tips for Browsing

• Change browser language.
• Put "infographic," "list," "ELE," or "FLE" in your search terms.
• When you want to teach a certain structure and you want to get ideas for class stories, you can just put it on Google to get many examples. Then you can pick up those you think you can manipulate to get a TPRS story. As an example - for an advanced structure- I've just typed in the phrase "quiere un perro que" (wants a dog that) on Google and I picked all these ideas very quickly: Obama quiere un perro que no sea ...
• Ignacia A. [moretprs] using google to get ideas. MoreTPRS listserv (moretprs@yahoogroups.com)

Lesson Ideas

4 Activities to Boost Target Language Vocabulary Acquisition (Edutopia) To give his students repeated exposure to relevant vocabulary terms, the author relies on a tried-and-true tool: index cards.

Differentiated Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Meeting the Diverse Needs of All Learners (LOTE Center for Educator Development) An article by Tonl Thelson.

Station Rotation in World Language Classes (Edutopia) Setting up activities around the classroom is a popular way to get students collaborating—and it can be used to promote use of a target language.

Differentiation in Heritage Language Programs A presentation by Jenny Dilks & Michele Schreiner, Egg Harbor Twp (NJ) School District.

Diversifying Language Educators and Learners (from the journal Language Educator) An article by Uju Anya and L.J. Randolph Jr.

How World Language Teaching Has Evolved (Cult of Pedagogy Podcast)

PACE Model

• But What About the Grammar?
• Grammar in a proficiency-based/CI classroom: the PACE method
• P.A.C.E. Yourself: Teaching Grammar
• The PACE Model: Teach Foreign Language Grammar Inductively as a Concept
• Teaching Grammar in Context Using Authentic Resources

Technology Tools

Games for Engagement

• Kahoot!
• Connect Fours: A great team quiz to revise key words and the connections between them.

Social Media

• Using Twitter as a Professional Learning Tool
• Using Twitter in the Foreign Language Classroom
• Some WL handles to follow:
  • @juliecaldarone
  • ⁦‪@klasekastellano‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@SpanishEagles‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@doriecp‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@joedale‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@karacjacobs‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@profeashley‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@profeklein‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@MisClasesLocas‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@PRHSspanish‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@weteachlang‬⁩
  • ⁦‪@gaugler‬⁩
  • #langchat