Student assessment can be a substantial challenge for instructors when teaching online. Some of their concerns include student integrity, project-based assessments, and inspiring creativity. The webinar Best Practices for Remote Assessment offers ideas and solutions that have been proven effective at solving these issues.
The evolving situation with COVID-19 has caused a rapid shift to remote teaching and learning at many schools and colleges across the country, and we understand that many of you are being asked to quickly develop a plan so that your courses can accommodate this change.
By Krista Chambless
In my webinar “Teaching for Long-Term Memory Part 1” I present the first 3 steps of the learning process and how they apply to the WL classroom. “Teaching for Long-Term Memory Part 2” is the continuation of my discussion of the learning process. These presentations are based on the book How to Teach so Students Remember (second edition) by Marilee Sprenger.
The evolving situation with COVID-19 has caused a rapid shift to remote teaching and learning at many schools and colleges across the country, and we understand that many of you are being asked to quickly develop a plan so that your courses can accommodate this change.
By Krista Chambless
“I studied Spanish for 2 years and I don’t remember anything!” is the bane of language teachers everywhere. Personally, I hear it most of the time when I say I am a language teacher. And inevitably I feel compelled to explain to them that the methodologies used when they took X language were not effective, but now we know better. I tell them we have so much research on language learning/aquisition and the brain that the methods used in world language classroom today are drastically different and more effective.
Our commitment to language learning goes beyond providing instructional solutions. We want to partner with you to ensure your students get the materials they need to be successful. We also aim to provide you as teachers with the support you need to deliver effective lessons, implement research-based strategies, and truly engage your students. If you haven’t already discovered our PD Webinar series, we encourage you to check them out.
By- John De Mado
There is a distinct difference between an approach and a method. An approach is philosophical in nature and pertains to a teacher’s belief system or, as written in Alice Omaggio Hadley’s Teaching Language in Context, a teacher’s organizing principles. Conversely, a method reflects the arsenal of instructional techniques that a teacher deploys to implement that belief system or those organizing principles.
