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Yearly Archives: 2011
Lesson Plans for World Language Education
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! We hope your holidays are starting off nicely and that everyone is enjoying this festive season. This past Thursday we held a fun #langchat conversation that we haven’t done before — lesson plan … Continue reading
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Bringing Current Issues to Life in the World Language Classroom
This past Thursday, we had a great discussion on the best ideas on how to engage world language students with current issues and events in the classroom, and participants shared lots of great resources and tips. As always, please feel … Continue reading
Best Strategies for New and Student Teachers
Welcome back to #langchat, everyone. We hope your Thanksgiving holidays were as relaxing and turkey-stuffed as ours! This week we have Thursday night’s #langchat summary available for everyone who wasn’t able to make it to the discussion. Please feel free … Continue reading
Classroom Management for World Language Classes
Happy (almost) Thanksgiving, Everyone! This week’s post is to present a summary of our weekly Twitter professional development as well as announce an exciting new development from #langchat. In early December, from all the participants of our weekly meetings, we’ll … Continue reading
Assessing Individual Students in Language Class
This past Thursday on #langchat, participants discussed and shared ideas on a very challenging topic, “What strategies help you accurately assess individual students?” The debate was lively and lots of great tips were spread around, and we’ve included highlights and … Continue reading
How to Present Culture in World Language Classrooms
This past Thursday we had a very exciting and active #langchat with lots of great debate, tips and resources shared! Our topic was “How is culture best presented in the world language classroom?” Participants showed up en masse and we … Continue reading
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Authentic Resources for Novice Learners
This past Thursday we had a steamroller of a #langchat crammed full of resources and suggestions from our enthusiastic participants! Thanks to everyone for showing up, and especially to @CalicoTeach, @dr_dmd and @SECottrell for moderating. If you couldn’t find the … Continue reading
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Provide Effective Feedback in the Classroom
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Thursday night’s #langchat, and thanks especially to our moderator for the night, Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell (@SECottrell). Our topic for the night was “How can we make our feedback more effective?” Effective feedback is a … Continue reading
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Top Ways to Get Students Speaking Productively in Class
Thanks to all the participants of Thursday night’s #langchat! We had an animated discussion on the best ways to get kids speaking productively in large world-language classes. Lots of you were able to join us, and we shared a fantastic … Continue reading
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How to Collaborate with School Administrators for Strong World-Language Programs
We had a remarkable #langchat this past Thursday with a large turnout! Many participants shared their thoughts on a very important topic for world-language educators: How can we collaborate with school administrators to provide strong world-language programs? Thanks to all … Continue reading
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