This course explores how proficiency standards can be applied in the classroom in conjunction with state and local standards based on the national standards for foreign language education as established by the American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Using ACTFL’s Guiding Principles for Language Learning and ACTFL’s High-Leverage Teaching Practices, students learn how to integrate the Five Cs of world language education (i.e., the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards): Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities, with clearly defined proficiency standards for foreign language performance.
Through this course, students will:
- Discuss the theoretical issues that underlie past and present language teaching approaches.
- Deconstruct fundamental high-leverage instructional practices that are complex and often not visible through observation, definition, or brief explanation.
- Identify and create contextualized lesson plans, learning tasks, and activities informed by current research-based high-leverage teaching practices, and align them with the national standards for world language education as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
- Examine different types of performance and proficiency assessments.
- Teacher: Brian Olovson