Differentiation in the Language Classroom
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
Required Texts (must be purchased prior to course start date)
Course Delivery:
Online weekly learning modules, collaborative discussion boards and instructor feedback. This course is not self-paced.
Students who matriculate into an Instructor-Facilitated course should adhere to the dates listed on the website. Final coursework should be submitted within one week after the course end date. Course extensions beyond one week are subject to a $50 fee.
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
Required Texts (must be purchased prior to course start date)
Course Delivery:
Online weekly learning modules, collaborative discussion boards and instructor feedback. This course is not self-paced.
Students who matriculate into an Instructor-Facilitated course should adhere to the dates listed on the website. Final coursework should be submitted within one week after the course end date. Course extensions beyond one week are subject to a $50 fee.
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
Required Texts (must be purchased prior to course start date)
Course Delivery:
Online weekly learning modules, collaborative discussion boards and instructor feedback. This course is not self-paced.
Students who matriculate into an Instructor-Facilitated course should adhere to the dates listed on the website. Final coursework should be submitted within one week after the course end date. Course extensions beyond one week are subject to a $50 fee.
About the Instructor
Maureen Lamb, Read more about Maureen here.
Click here to request a syllabus.
Credit Options
Not sure which credit option to choose? Learn more about each credit option here and review your state/district requirements.
45 Professional Development/Clock Hours: $590
Idioma Professional Development Certificate (accepted by most states)
Approved Illinois CPDU Certificate through partnership with CEII
Approved Massachusetts PDP Certificate
Approved New Jersey CE Program
Approved New York CTLE Certificate
Approved Pennsylvania ACT48 Certificate
Approved Texas CPE Certificate
3 Graduate-Level Credits
PWLC 9192: University of the Pacific: $925
CLDE 591 GEN507 DIFF FOR LANG TEACHERS: CSU Pueblo: $950
PDLL 567ID: Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU): $1005
EDU 6130 Ashland University: (register and pay the university directly) $1050
