Let’s clear the clutter with Single Point Rubrics
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The good and bad of Analytic Rubrics
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Like most teachers, I have a love/hate relationship with rubrics…..
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Survey of the metrics in the rubrics published by our professional organization. Now we need your expertise to evaluate the metrics based on your classroom experience.
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Day one of our crowd-sourcing we focus on the constraints and challenges of even trying to measure performance.
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This summer, I invite us to crowd-source an interpersonal speaking rubric that interconnects science, statistics and our lived-experience as classroom teachers.
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Dr. Stephen Krashen explains second language acquisition in under 7 minutes with a little editing on my part.
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A 2 Minute Video to Explain to Students what Language Acquisition Feels Like.
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The Rigor portion of our presentation at ACTFL 2017. Watch the brief presentation and then contribute to the conversation in a poll or comment.
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One element of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning is relationships. Relationships play a key role in world language classrooms. 7 minute recording of the presentation and an online poll.
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The Overview of the rationale and framework of Culturally Responsive Teaching in World Language
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Ideas about how to integrate interpersonal speaking and target language use into the grade. One teacher's process with an invitation to dialog.
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Resources for the February 9th, 2018 workshop on culturally responsive teaching and 90% target language.
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Take reading further by empowering student voice
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Explore discourse scrambles as a way to get students to look deeper into reading.
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Repository of Ideas for Interactive Reading
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Repository of Ideas for Pre-Reading Activities
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When we use folktales or folk traditions in our world language classroom, we need to think about unhelpful stereotypes that we are perpetuating. Includes a sample lesson.
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This framework helps us design units around reading and/or folktales by making them accessible to novice and intermediate learners.
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Finding a Story for your world language classroom is the hardest part. Use this interactive Story Quotient to compare stories and find one that will work well for your class. Balance Interactive Comprehension, Compelling Elements and Culture.
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