The program includes appropriate standards and skill objectives for four years of foreign language study. Each of the topics has a separate chart detailing objectives and activities designed to help assess student skill in the four major skills. Teachers are free to use preferred methods of instruction . Any teaching materials can easily be incorporated . The portfolios provide a place to file key papers such as work returned, assignments missed when absent, clues for a project or game, projects in progress, and much more.
Assignments become either preparation activities or pass-offs.
Teacher workload is reduced in that preparation assignments can be graded by students and skills can be passed off by teacher, student aides or even volunteers. Pass-offs are quickly graded because the work either meets the standards or it does not. Substandard work is returned to the student for continued polishing. The student proudly uses the working portfolio to demonstrate progress and success in foreign language acquisition. They provide a visual method for tracking personal progress and are available on a daily basis.