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Bringing the Standards into the Classroom:
A Teacher's Guide |
The purpose of this guide is to assist teachers in aligning their present
foreign language curriculum with the national standards for student learning.
This document will enable teachers to identify which aspects of their current
curriculum fit with the standards and how these can be extended and adapted
to address the new dimensions
of the standards.
This document is designed to be used in varied teaching environments
from kindergarten through grade twelve. It is not intended to substitute
for guides on how to write curriculum-instead, its purpose is to assist
teachers in linking their existing curriculum with the standards and in
planning for future curriculum work.
This guide is divided into three main sections. Each of these
sections is relevant to all teachers since the concepts developed
in them will enrich classroom teaching at all levels. The first
section addresses developing foreign language curriculum. The
second and the third sections are designed to meet the needs
that
are most common today at the grade levels indicated: "Connecting Thematic
Units to the Standards at the K-8 Level" and "How to Teach Foreign
Language in Secondary School Programs Using the
Standards."
While the primary purpose of the document is to assist classroom
teachers, this guide will also be useful to foreign language
district supervisors, state supervisors, and teacher educators
at colleges and universities. Because of the work they do with
in-service and pre-service teachers, they play a key role in
the transition
of the profession to standards-oriented instruction.
The initial plans for this guide were developed in the summer
of 1996 at the Curriculum Institute of the National K-12 Foreign
Language Resource Center. The guide was written at a four-day
workshop, led by Dr. Myriam Met, held in March 1997 in Rockville,
Maryland. In the summer of 1997, the guide was piloted in Center
institutes held at Iowa State University and at the Invitational
Workshop of the National Network for Early Language Learning,
held at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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A Guide to Aligning Curriculum with the Standards
Standards for Foreign Language Learning
Page numbers relating to 1996 Standards
for Foreign Language Learning
Reprinted with permission from the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Inc. (ACTFL).
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