This course is designed to help teachers become familiar with trends and developments in teaching foreign languages, and to improve skills in instructional strategies, design, assessment for students P-12. This course will enable the student to begin the development of a portfolio that could be submitted for National Board certification. Educators know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students. The graduates will plan using specialized knowledge of how to convey a subject to students. The students will research and implement advanced foreign language methods and strategies.
Educators are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.
The graduates will use knowledge of assessment to monitor students' academic, social and physical progress on a recurring basis. The students will develop assessment techniques which allow them to measure the communicative competence of foreign language students. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Culturally responsive teaching and supervision. Teachers College press.