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  • Instruction
    • Lessons based on authentic resources
    • Proficiency
    • Communicative Modes
    • Target Language
    • Scaffolds and Supports
    • Tiering Tasks and Text
    • Interpretive Mode
    • Authentic Resources
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
    • AI Resources for World Languages
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Resources
    • Teacher Leadership
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Professional Learning
    • Effective Meeting Management
    • Team Building
    • Leading Through Change
    • Teacher Recruitment and Retention
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Varied Approaches


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Engagement wheel
Making adjustments to lesson plans in:

modality of presentation or activity type

length of learning sequence

level of interaction and engagement with and between students

flexible use of class time and classroom space.

Variations in...

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•Variations in modality

•Variations in communicative mode

•Variations in content

•Variations in groupings

•Variations in level of challenge
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​Variations in products students create

​Examples of Varied approaches

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Instructional strategies

Instructional strategies playlist

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—Teacher-led activities

Visual Strategies

Visual thinking strategies

Visual Notetaking

Sketchnoting

—Activities across the modes and integrating modes

Hands-on activities

Why Hands-On Tasks Are Good

Foldables

All Things Foldable Live Binder
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Foldables for ELLs

Lapbook Lessons.com (lots of free templates and ideas)

Foreign Language foldables templates, instructions, and examples

Foreign Language foldables How To videos

Foreign Language foldables implementation ideas

Spanish comecocos (cootie catchers)

Cootie catcher template
cootiecatcher.gaillovely.com.ppt
File Size: 227 kb
File Type: ppt
Download File
Poof book template
poofbook_template.ppt
File Size: 164 kb
File Type: ppt
Download File
Scatter squares template
scatter_squares-matching_template.pptx
File Size: 68 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File
Spot it template
copy_of_spot_it_template__shareable_.xlsx
File Size: 74 kb
File Type: xlsx
Download File
Guess Who template (Ditch That Textbook)
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Other hands-on strategies

Cube template

Cube Creator (Read Write Think.org)

Custom Bingo Cards

Bingo board, dice, dominoes, game board maker

Free Printable Flashcards

Free Printable Flashcards, Worksheets, and Games

Jeopardy Labs- create an online jeopardy game

Flip Quiz: create gameshow-style boards
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Tarsia (triangles) puzzle creator
  Games

Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement (Educational Leadership, ASCD, February 2010)

Using Games in the Language Classroom

Types of Learning and Possible Game Styles (Marc Prensky)

Why Games Engage Us (Marc Prensky)

Movement and Music

Instructional Strategies that Get Students Moving

Inside-Outside Circle

Step left, step right

Graffiti

Quiz-Quiz-Trade

Stand Up- Hand Up- Pair Up

Mix-Freeze-Pair

​​Chat Stations

​Speed Friending


Brain Breaks

Go Noodle

Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices

Ten Simple Ways to Get Your Students Moving and Learning

Roll Some Brain Breaks

20 Three-Minute Brain Breaks

Classroom Brain Breaks Pinterest Board

Kindergarten-5th grade classroom energizers

Energizers: Classroom-Based Physical Activities

3 Minute Brain Breaks

Brain breaks freebie

Languages

Brain breaks for world languages (TPT free download)

Spanish

Brain Breaks from La Maestra Loca

Brain breaks for Spanish class

French

Pause Active En Classe

Bouger en salle de classe

Pauses actives à imprimer


Songs in world languages

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—A mixture of whole class, individual, pair, and small group activities

—Use of technology

—Independent student activities
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—Simulations/demonstrations

Game-related vocabulary and expressions

ASL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wWKTuPGdVI
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    • Intercultural Communication
    • Continuous Assessment
    • Assessment in World Languages
    • Responding to Student Data
    • Feedback
    • Grammar in Context
    • Questioning and Discussion
    • Meeting the needs of diverse language learners
    • Learning Centers
    • Supportive Learning Environment
    • Knowing the Learner
    • Student Engagement
    • Student Choice and Voice
    • Flexible grouping
    • Student Reflection and Self-Assessment
    • Varied Approaches
    • Lesson and Unit Planning
    • Guided Instruction
    • Intentional Skill Building
    • Thinking Strategies
    • Immersion Resources
    • Designing Performance Tasks
    • AI Resources for World Languages
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in World Languages
    • Resources for the Shift to Online/Blended Learning
    • Designing Tasks Around Authentic Resources: One Stop Shop
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Resources
    • Teacher Leadership
    • Coaching and Mentoring Skills
    • Professional Learning
    • Effective Meeting Management
    • Team Building
    • Leading Through Change
    • Teacher Recruitment and Retention
    • Growth Mindset
    • Feedback for Teachers
    • Supporting Teachers' Wellbeing
  • Workshops, sessions, and keynotes
  • WLPD4U
  • Blog
  • Reflection Spinner