Table of Contents:

Purpose of this "Best Practices" page:

This page is a place to examine and share best practices as they apply more specifically to World Language Education, but not to the exclusion of other content areas.

What are strategies?

• Framing the term as it applies to Best Practices
• Strategies refer to how you teach something

Research-Based Strategies:

• similarities vs. differences
• classify information
• higher order thinking skills
• summarizing, note-taking
• learning styles
• learning groups
• positive reinforcement
• set objectives
• provide feedback
• advance organizers
• small-group activities
  • partner reading
  • peer response and editing
  • literature circles
  • study teams
  • group investigations
  • centers
• Reading as Thinking
• representing-to-learn
• classroom workshop
• authentic experiences
• reflective assessment
• Integrative Units