Teaching World Languages to Adolescent

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide beginning World Languages teachers the opportunity to develop curriculum materials, plan instruction, develop and analyze assessments for teaching World Languages in today's diverse classrooms with students of a wide range of abilities and prior language experiences. Candidates will develop the knowledge and skills to implement instruction of languages and culture in meaningful and authentic ways. They will use (multiple) formal and informal methods of assessment (of the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing) to inform and design effective instruction to improve student learning in World Languages. Candidates will demonstrate their ability to differentiate instruction to meet the needs, skills, and interests of diverse students (including heritage speakers). Candidates will integrate creative and appropriate uses of technology as a tool to enhance and support student learning in languages. They will reflect on their plans and practices and draw on professional resources and research in the field of secondary World Language instruction to articulate a personal vision of teaching World Languages for today’s secondary students.