NEW! Two Great New Video Series
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Classroom Practices Library, Annenberg/CPB
"The Teaching Foreign Languages K-12 video library and professional development guide bring to life the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. Illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies, the series documents 27 teachers and their students in K-12 classrooms around the country as they study eight languages across a range of competency levels." (Annenberg/CPB. (2003). Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices Video Library Guide, p. 1).
| VIDEO 1: Introduction to the Library |
| VIDEO 2: Standards and the Five C's |
| VIDEO 3: Assessment Strategies |
| VIDEO 4: Chicken Pox (French I, kindergarten); Mapping Planet Earth (French I, grade 2); Family and Home (French I grade 5). |
| VIDEO 5: Holidays and Seasons (German I, grade 3); Sports Stats (German I, grade 5) |
| VIDEO 6: Daily Routines (Japanese I, grade 5); Fruits of the Americas, Spanish I, grade 4) |
| VIDEO 7: Communicating About Sports (Chinese I, grade 6) |
| VIDEO 8: A Cajun Folktale and Zydeco (French I, grade 8); Touring a French City (French I, grade 8) |
| VIDEO 9: Hearing Authentic Voices (Spanish I, grade 8); Food Facts and Stories (Spanish I, grade 8) |
| VIDEO 10: Exploring New Directions (Chinese II-IV, grades 9-12) |
| VIDEO 11: Comparing Communities (French III, grades 9-12); Interpreting La Belle et la Bête French IV, grade 11); Performing With Confidence (French IV-V, grades 10-12) |
| VIDEO 12: Sports in Action (German I, grades 9-11); U.S. and Italian Homes (Italian II, grade 9) |
| VIDEO 13: Happy New Year! (Japanese II, grades 10-12); Promoting Attractions of Japan (Japanese III-IV, grades 10-12) |
| VIDEO 14: Music and Manuscripts (Latin II-III, grades 10-12); Russian Cites, Russian Stories (Russian I and IV, grades 9-12) |
| VIDEO 15: Routes to Culture (Spanish II, grades 9-10); Interpreting Picasso's Guernica (Spanish II, grade 10) |
| VIDEO 16: Creating Travel Advice (Spanish III, Grade 11);
Interpreting Literature (Spanish III, grade 11); Politics of Art (Spanish V,
grade 12) |
The Effective Teacher
This 8 part video series is correlated to the book "The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher" by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong. Both the video series and the book are based on the following research:
| Part 1: The Effective Teacher (32 minutes) |
| Part 2: The First Day of School (36 minutes) |
| Part 3: Discipline and Procedures (36 minutes) |
| Part 4: Procedures and Routines (55 minutes) |
| Part 5: Cooperative Learning and Culture (47 minutes) |
| Part 6: Lesson Mastery (33 minutes) |
| Part 7: The Professional Educator (41 minutes) |
| Part 8: Positive Expectations (20 minutes) |
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