Course Description
Language students come from a wide variety of backgrounds. As a result, students within a class have many different needs. This course explores many strategies that allow teachers to meet a wide variety of student needs, including an effective feedback loop, collaborative organization, understanding how students learn, creating more equitable assessments, giving students opportunities for choice, and creating scaffolded tasks to work towards proficiency. Teachers will come away with effective strategies and have designed activities and assessments that they can use immediately in their classes.
This course would be a great way for both novice and experienced teachers to connect with other teachers, collaborate on activities, and reflect deeply on how and why they teach. There will be many opportunities for creating lessons and brainstorming activities. The lessons, assignments, discussion topics, and writing prompts of this course can easily be modified to fit any language class at the middle, secondary, or university level. The course will rely heavily on the performance descriptors, sample performance indicators and sample progress indicators included in the revised ACTFL Standards for Intercultural Competence.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will have the opportunity to:
Gain a working knowledge of the revised ACTFL Standards for Intercultural Competence
Create personalized learning opportunities
Collaborate on effective technology for language teaching
Understand how to give students choice within their classroom experience
Develop strategies for creating an inclusive classroom practice
Support students using scaffolding strategies
Connect and collaborate with other teachers
What Participants Are Saying About This Course
“Maureen is great! She is super responsive and was always quick to reply to my questions. Her joy for what she does is clear. This is my first experience taking an online class. I really love its convenience, but feel I am more traditional and prefer an in-person experience. I would have loved even more Maureen time! Given the format, though, she was very present!”
Course Delivery
Instructor-Facilitated
Online asynchronous (no live sessions) coursework
Weekly learning modules to complete at your own pace
Collaborative discussion boards
Instructor feedback
Optional office hours with the instructor for additional support
Students in an instructor-facilitated course must adhere to the session start and end dates listed on the website. Final coursework must be submitted within one week after the course end date. Course extensions beyond one week are subject to a $50 fee.
Course Access Information
Your Idioma Schoology course invitation will be emailed one week prior to the start of an instructor-facilitated 6-week course. You may access the Idioma Schoology login from the Login > Idioma Schoology Login dropdown menu at www.idiomaconsulting.com.
Required Texts
Adair-Hauck, Bonnie, et al. Implementing Integrated Performance Assessment. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2015.
Clementi, Donna, and Laura Terrill. The Keys to Planning for Learning: Effective Curriculum, Unit, and Lesson Design. Second Edition ed., ACTFL, 2020.
About the Instructor
Maureen Lamb, Read more about Maureen here.
Click here to request a syllabus.
Course Description
Language students come from a wide variety of backgrounds. As a result, students within a class have many different needs. This course explores many strategies that allow teachers to meet a wide variety of student needs, including an effective feedback loop, collaborative organization, understanding how students learn, creating more equitable assessments, giving students opportunities for choice, and creating scaffolded tasks to work towards proficiency. Teachers will come away with effective strategies and have designed activities and assessments that they can use immediately in their classes.
This course would be a great way for both novice and experienced teachers to connect with other teachers, collaborate on activities, and reflect deeply on how and why they teach. There will be many opportunities for creating lessons and brainstorming activities. The lessons, assignments, discussion topics, and writing prompts of this course can easily be modified to fit any language class at the middle, secondary, or university level. The course will rely heavily on the performance descriptors, sample performance indicators and sample progress indicators included in the revised ACTFL Standards for Intercultural Competence.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will have the opportunity to:
Gain a working knowledge of the revised ACTFL Standards for Intercultural Competence
Create personalized learning opportunities
Collaborate on effective technology for language teaching
Understand how to give students choice within their classroom experience
Develop strategies for creating an inclusive classroom practice
Support students using scaffolding strategies
Connect and collaborate with other teachers
What Participants Are Saying About This Course
“Maureen is great! She is super responsive and was always quick to reply to my questions. Her joy for what she does is clear. This is my first experience taking an online class. I really love its convenience, but feel I am more traditional and prefer an in-person experience. I would have loved even more Maureen time! Given the format, though, she was very present!”
Course Delivery
Instructor-Facilitated
Online asynchronous (no live sessions) coursework
Weekly learning modules to complete at your own pace
Collaborative discussion boards
Instructor feedback
Optional office hours with the instructor for additional support
Students in an instructor-facilitated course must adhere to the session start and end dates listed on the website. Final coursework must be submitted within one week after the course end date. Course extensions beyond one week are subject to a $50 fee.
Course Access Information
Your Idioma Schoology course invitation will be emailed one week prior to the start of an instructor-facilitated 6-week course. You may access the Idioma Schoology login from the Login > Idioma Schoology Login dropdown menu at www.idiomaconsulting.com.
Required Texts
Adair-Hauck, Bonnie, et al. Implementing Integrated Performance Assessment. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2015.
Clementi, Donna, and Laura Terrill. The Keys to Planning for Learning: Effective Curriculum, Unit, and Lesson Design. Second Edition ed., ACTFL, 2020.
About the Instructor
Maureen Lamb, Read more about Maureen here.
Click here to request a syllabus.
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