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Continue reading →: PJF is getting a massive upgrade!LE PETIT JOURNAL FRANCOPHONE is a monthly publication that has been providing comprehensible news summaries from the Francophone world to your classroom since 2016! With each article, you will now also get: Here is a preview of the additional resources you will get with each article. We know you are…
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Continue reading →: Engaging Students in Cross-Language Collaboration with “The Grey Planet”In this guest blog post, Ann Radefeld, French teacher and Language Acquisition Department Head at Woodbury School, shares how her entire school read The Gray Planet in German, French, Latin, and Spanish, and how the students engaged in cross-language projects about the graphic novel. I am thrilled about this initiative…
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Continue reading →: How Hachi Pachi brought new life and energy to my students (and me)It’s that time of the year where everyone is exhausted, nothing seems to stick, and your students know all your tricks! Enters Hachi Pachi. I had already heard of Hachi Pachi as a brain break but I learned this version of the game at SCOLT from Tameka Allen, an OWL…
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Continue reading →: What do I have in common with a francophone person? A series of cultural mini unitsFor the past 3 years, I have been teaching Novice learners exclusively and I have been striving to develop their intercultural competency while continuing to invite even more francophone people from the global majority and historically marginalized communities in my Novice curriculum. Making space and sharing the space. A few…
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Continue reading →: Movie Talk: it’s all about the story!I love Movie Talk the way Dr. Ashley J. Hastings intended it to be: no language targets, no curriculum agenda, no circling of key vocabulary. It so freeing and authentic to simply focus on telling our students an interesting story in comprehensible language. I have done Movie Talk with quiet…
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Continue reading →: “The Gray Planet”, a Sci-Fi Fantasy graphic novel for Novice learnersMy students love Fantasy and Science Fiction but unfortunately there isn’t a single language reader of that genre in my classroom library (at the time of this post). This is how this project was born. After A LOT of hard but thrilling work, I am so excited – and nervous-…
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Continue reading →: Embedding Social Justice standards in our World Language curriculum and practicesOn this week’s podcast episode of The World Language Classroom, I had the opportunity to share some actionable ideas on how to embed the Social Justice standards framework from learningforjustice.org into our WL curriculum and practices, with a specific focus on Novice Learners. These reflections are the results of working…
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Continue reading →: Why you should follow and buy from AfroFrancoAre you looking for ways to center Black and Brown voices in your curriculum – not just pay them lip service during Black History Month? Are you interested in taking deeper dives into products, practices, and perspectives from Black and Brown francophone cultures with your students? If you answered yes…
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Continue reading →: New to CI for Proficiency? Let’s get you startedOne of the questions I see the most in my online professional networks is “I want to provide more comprehensible input to my students. How do I get started?”. Here are some ideas for you: 1. Find a workshop. What I love about CI workshops and conferences is that they…
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Continue reading →: Sharing power with our students, building trust in the classroomI have been thinking deeply about how to share power with my students. I was inspired to do so by Shane Safir and Dr. Jamila Dugan as part of their workshop on collecting and using “street data” about our students. After posing this question on Twitter and getting a lot…
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