Lesson+Planning

Here find ideas and templates to assist you in your lesson planning. If you have more to add, please send them in!


 * Lesson Planning Using Backwards Designed Units. This hint sheet can help you plan out your units using our new curriculum unit plans: **

=The first days of school:= PowerPoint for Instruction - To use Jessica's pre-made PowerPoints, including some for the first days of school, go here. Here is the one we did together, the "Jessica -Sensei Quiz" Here are some games for basic [|Spanish vocabulary]that you can play whole-group on the projector. Here is FLTeach's list of ideas for the first days of school in [|world language classrooms.] Want to teach your class rules all in the target language? Here is a lesson plan you can follow:

This document has lots of ideas for how to organize your lesson and what types of activities you can do in each section of the lesson. Here is a blank version of the template, so that you can type/write into it. Please be sure to check the "differentiation" page below in order to consider ways to differentiate the lesson.
 * Daily Lesson Plan Idea Template**

CAN DO Statements: View the newest version of the NCSSFL/ACTFL Can Do Statements[| here.] Use these to create your daily objectives.

Here is something you can use to self-reflect on your daily lessons.
 * Daily Lesson Checklist**

Links for lesson planning:

This website called [|"Language Plan-It"] has monthly free lesson plans for Arabic, French, Russian, Italian,and Spanish.

Article on [|Teaching Foreign Language to At-Risk Learners]with suggestions for modifications and supports.

Here is great website for [|printing outline maps] for different countries and regions!

View terrific Integrated Performance Assessments created by New Jersey teachers [|here.] They give you an activity for each of the three modes of communication.

To access PowerPoints and other ideas for all types of activities for your class, go to: http://wl-info.wikispaces.com/PowerPoint+for+Instruction (username/password required- ask Jessica if you forgot)

For more ideas on daily instruction, go to http://ctworldlanguagesk8.wikispaces.com/Links+for+Instruction

For ideas about differentiation, go to http://ctworldlanguagesk8.wikispaces.com/Differentiation

For a list of "Top Five" favorite activities in each mode of communication, go to http://ctworldlanguagesk8.wikispaces.com/Top+Five