By Ling-Ling Lisa Shih
From Ling-LingChinese.com
Language-related Professional Organizations
- Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (including free journal articles)
- The Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA
- Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching (including free journal articles)
- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
- Central State Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Ohio Foreign Language Association
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- American Translators Association
- The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
- Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
- Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR)
- Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
- Joint National Committee for Languages
- Linguistic Society of America
- Modern Language Association (MLA) and Related Professional Organizations
- National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
- National Council of State Supervisors for Languages
- National Foreign Language Center (NFLC)
- National Foreign Language Resource Centers
Regional Language Associations
- Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL)
- Ohio Foreign Language Association
- Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL)
- Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL)
- Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)
- Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT)
National Language Associations
- American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
- American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
- American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)
- American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI)
- American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
- American Classical League (ACL)
- American Council on the Teaching of Russian (ACTR)
- American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACCELS)
- American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA)
- Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS)
- Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
- National Chinese Language Conference | Asia Society
World Languages Resources and Links–OSPI
Other related Professional Organizations:
- National Council of Teachers of English
- ReadWriteThink
- Classroom Resources: Student Interactive Tools (Interactive Tools for writing essays, Story map, essay map, timeline, Comic Creator, Flip books, Resume Generator, Trading Card Creator, Venn Diagram, etc.)
Resources for teaching Integrated Chinese
- Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Video Activity Worksheets
- Integrated Chinese DVD Webnar
- Integrated Chinese Resources at Ling-LingChinese.com
Resources for Authentic Materials
- Authentic Materials for Teaching Languages
- teaching with authentic materials – Pearson English
- Use of Authentic Texts in Language Learning | American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- (PDF) Authentic materials and authenticity in foreign language…
- The Use of Authentic Materials in the Teaching of Reading
Resources for Chinese Language Teaching and Learning
- 中国华文教育网 Overseas Chinese Language and Culture Education Online:
- 教材下载 free textbooks Download Teaching Material
- 全球華語網 Hanyu World
- Freely Download:走向中文(Easy Peasy Chinese) Written by DK.-A very good Mandarin Chinese Textbook for Beginners with CD Audios
- Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language 牛 津 大 学 汉 语 教 学 中 心
- Resources for Developing Chinese Reading Materials for Your Students
- Creative Chinese
- FREE KS2 (age 7-11) Mandarin Chinese Scheme of Work Lesson Plan
Foreign Language Scholarship Programs
Resources for Language Teaching
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Merlot II–Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
- Startalk
- Developing Chinese Language Teachers by NYU Department of Teaching and Learning
- UCLA Language Materials Project
- About World Languages
- National Museum of Language
- Database of where languages are taught
- The 16 Best Resources for Teaching a Foreign Language
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Using Writing-To-Learn Activities In The Foreign Language Classroom
- Annenberg Learner: Teacher Resources for Professional Development Across the Curriculum.
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Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
- Classroomtools.com
- Student News Daily
Websites for Language and Literacy Teacher
Resources for Unit/Lesson Planning
- Understanding by Design FRAMEWORK BY JAY MCTIGHE AND GRANT WIGGINS
- The Understanding by Design: Guide to High-Quality Units by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
- Lesson Plan Template – University of Chicago
- Introduction—The Logic of Backward Design – ASCD
- Introduction to Understanding by Design – CPPM
- Principles of Backward Design
- Backward Design_Wiggins-and-mctighe-design-template
- 5 Task-based Language Teaching Activities
- PPT on Unit and Lesson Planning by Ling-Ling Shih & Xi-Jun Lin
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The PACE Model | World Language Classroom: Download PDF with PACE Model Explanation and Lesson Plan Template. The PACE Model is a great way to teach grammar as a concept, one of the ACTFL Core Practices.
Resources for Students and Teachers Publishing on Line
- Global SchoolNet.Org: Linking Kids around the World
- A Collection of Online Publishing Opportunities for Student Writing
- Classroom Authors
- Publish Your Student Book | schoolmatepublishing.com
- EdTechTeacher Classroom Videos – Projects, Curriculum, Tools …
- 16 best websites for authors and students for publishing articles online
Lesson Plans, Games, and Activities for Chinese Language Classroom
- Chinese Lesson Plans:
- Supplementary: Lesson_Plan for YuGuangZhong_Poem-Nostalgia or go to the following link: Lesson Plan for Yu Guang Zhong’s Xiang Chou
- A Lesson Plan on Descriptive Adjectives in Chinese
- Chinese Lesson Methods
Resources for Assessments
- World Languages / Rubrics (Assessment)
- World Languages _ Oral Presentations_Rubrics (Assessment)
- World Languages _Writing Rubrics (Assessment)
- World language assessements (Self-Evaluation Sheet)
- Rubric for Oral Assignment (for my Chinese Class)
- rubric-for-oral-assignments-and-partner-collaboration-rubric(for my Chinese class)
- Rubric for Chinese Cultural Project
- Scoring Rubrics for Cultural Project Oral Presentation
- Assessment Resources for Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages
- TDES Teacher Rubric for Teaching Evaluation
- Technology:
- How to Design and Select Quality Assessments
- What Is Performance-Based Assessment
- What is a Performance Task?
- The Case for Performance-Based Assessment of Critical-Thinking Skills (Stanford University)
- LinguaFolio Materials – NCSSFL–Student Self-Assessment Portfolio ToolsLinguaFolio® is a proficiency-based, learner-directed formative assessment tool for setting and achieving language goals.
Standards
- Standards Book Introduction
- Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession
- Ohio Standards for Professional Development
- Understanding and Using the Standards
- TDES Teacher Rubric 2018-2019
- Ohio’s Learning Standards for World Languages
- Introduction to Ohio’s Learning Standards for K-12 World Languages
- Kindergarten through 12th gradeOhio’s Learning Standards: K-12 World Language Programs
- 6th through 12th gradeOhio’s Learning Standards: 6-12 World Language Programs
- 9th through 12th gradeOhio’s Learning Standards: 9-12 World Language Programs
- Introduction to Ohio’s Learning Standards for K-12 World Languages
- ACTFL–World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
- World Languages K-12 Learning Standards
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 World Languages K-12 Learning Standards (2015) (16 pages, .6 MB) |
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The Grade Level Standards & Resources Web site provides quick access to all content standards along with aligned resources to support curriculum development, instructional practices, and assessment of student learning. Choose “World Languages” from the homepage menu. |
Supporting Resources
- Career and College Goals in Washington with World Language Correlations (PDF)
- 21st Century Skills and World Skills (21st Century Skills Map: World Languages)
- NCSSFL-ACTFL CAN-DO STATEMENTS
- ACTFL PROFICIENCY GUIDELINES 2012
- Chinese Proficiency Guideline
- Standards Order FormThe book provides background on the standards and language study in the United States, along with specific sections for these languages: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Languages, French (K-16), German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
- ACTFL Performance Descriptors
- LinguaFolio Materials – NCSSFL
- Linking World Languages to Common Core State Standards
Instruction and Teaching/Learning Strategies
- My Pinterest Page on Teaching
- Instructional Strategies
- 23 Effective Vocabulary Activities
- Marzanos-9-High-Yield-Instructional-Strategies (PDF)
- On teaching strategies in second language acquisition
- INSTRUCTIONAL Chapter 7 STRATEGIES AND STUDENT LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS
- Language Teaching Strategies and Techniques Used to Support Students Learning in a Language other than Their Mother Tongue
- LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLES AND STRATEGIES: AN OVERVIEW
- What is TRST
- Cooperative Learning:
- Cooperative Learning: Group Instigation, STAD, Jigsaws II, etc.
- Cooperative Learning Strategies: Think-Pair-Share, Three-step Interview, Round Table, Group Investigation, STAD, Jigsaw II, Round Robin Brainstorming, Three-Minute Review
- PPT on Cooperative Learning
- Cooperative Learning by Richard M. Felder , and Rebecca Brent
- Group Work and Cooperative Learning Resources, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
- Working in Groups, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
- Cooperative Learning, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University
- Learning through Discussion: Designing Tasks for Critical Inquiry and Reflective Learning. ERIC Digest.
- Guided Discussion
- 321 Strategy Poster: 3 things, 2 examples, 1 question
- 321 Strategy Poster: 3 Facts, 2 details, 1 Opinion
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Scaffolding Student Reflections + Sample Questions | Edutopia
- Teaching and Learning Resources by University of Illinois
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Teacher Practices that Impact Reading Motivation: Discuss the Concept-oriented Reading Instruction Concept.
- Graphic Organizers Forms For Reading Comprehension and Writing
- Article on Graphic Organizers (written in Chinese)
- Literacy and Designing Culturally Responsive teaching in Diverse Classroom
- Activating Prior Knowledge and Interest
- Activators and Summarizers by Kathy Schrock
- Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning By Laura Robb
- Realia: 9 Ways To Bring Real Life Into The Classroom – BusyTeacher
- 90% Target Language in the Classroom Strategies – Ohio Department …Strategies/Strategies_Using_Target-Language_MCwebsite.pdf.aspx
- Flipped Classroom
Forms to be downloaded:
- Education World: Printable Templates, Diagrams, Forms & Charts!
- BHSEC Cleveland syllabus template (Helpful info for creating syllabus: Bloom’s taxonomy summary and verbs)
- Guidelines for Working with a Foreign Language Tutor (Word)
- Weekly Class Participation Rubric
- Detention_Slips
- STARTALK_2015_Lesson_Plan_Template
- Pass
- Peer Evaluation Form for Group Project
- Homework_Classwork Table of Content_Grade Sheet_for 10th graders_Spring 2016
- homework_classwork-table-of-content_grade-sheet_for-9th-graders_spring-2016
- Lesson & Unit Planning
- Backwards_Design for Unit Planning_Template
- Backwards_Design for Unit Planning_Template
- Lesson Plan Template with Calendar Grid
- ReadingRecord
- Forms to Activate Prior Knowledge:
- Anticipation Guide (Article): Blank Anticipation Guide
- KWL-Chart: Know-Want to Know-Learned
- KWL Chart_2
- kwl_comprehension_strategy_handout
- Forms for Time management
- Things_To_Do_Today
- Calendar for Assignments Monthly and weekly
- Time Management Worksheet
- All Worksheets for learning — including the following Time managment worksheets (Also go to this page: Manage My Time
6 Reasons People Procrastinate24-Hour Time LogBreaking Down My WeekGoal Setting WorksheetProcrastination Management WorksheetTerm at a GlanceTime Budget SheetTime Log WorksheetUsing Time Effectively
Chinese Lesson Plans or Activities:
- Supplementary: Lesson_Plan for YuGuangZhong_Poem-Nostalgia or go to the following link: Lesson Plan for Yu Guang Zhong’s Xiang Chou
- ChineseNewYearActivitiesPack
Resources for Teaching Writing
- Writing Resources by University of Richmond
- National Writing Project
- Writing in Disciplines
- ReadWriteThink
Resources for Teaching Readings
- Reading Pockets: Launching Young Readers
- Adolescent Literacy: Resources for Parents and Educators of Kids in Grade 4-12
- Implementing the Common Core State Standards: A Primer on “Close Reading of Text” (Download the publication)
- Close Reading with a Pen — For Secondary
- Close Reading with a Pen – For Primary Students
- Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with Tech–Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- closreading-posters/ 21 Cool Anchor Charts To Teach Close-Reading Skills
- 25 Anchor Charts That Nail Reading Comprehension
- Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
- Topics A-Z: Reading Comprehension
- Keep It Simple and Strategic by Bernadette Lambert
Technology for Teacher
- Canva.com: Beautifully designed templates for education from class presentations to homework assignments.
- classkick.com: See all your students working and give high-quality feedback–from anywhere
- https://recordit.co/
- Rock Google Slides Like the Boss You Are; Click here for its google side
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Adding Some Tec Variety by Dr. Curtis Bonk and Elaine Khoo:100+ Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online
- MS. HUANG 黄老师的中文课堂 (Containing many links to useful technology tools)
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AnkiApp – The best flashcard app to learn languages and more.
- perusall: Allow students make comments to the text they read and share and respond to each other’s commentaries.
- Annotator Tool:Use Thinkport’s Annotator tool to analyze text and build writing skills. Simply paste in your text, select your virtual markers and have students annotate the passages. Students submit their work and receive your feedback—virtually.
- Dvolver Moviemaker. Make digital movies online. You can use it to create small videos with text bubbles and music backgrounds.
- Edpuzzle: Make any video your lesson- Use it to create video-based lessons. You can assign a video or set of videos to your students to watch, and embed questions for them to answer. Videos can be taken from YouTube and can be clipped and edited to suit you. Edupuzzle Tutorial.
- Educaplay: Using educaplay as the most complete gamification tool.
Create and find educational activities, manage groups, export your resources and use it in any device.
- Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
- EdTechTeacher
- Flipgrid – Video for student engagement and formative assessment
- Fotojet –You can use this website to create a card
- Formative: for Assessment
- Image Chef
- Kahoot: For students, go to Kahoot.it to play. Tutorial Video for Kahoot
- Lingt Classroom
- Loop Your Videos (Great for getting a clip and keep looping that clip)
- OCR Service: Free Online OCR-Extract text from PDF and images (JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) and convert into editable. Use Optical Character Recognition software online. Service supports 46 languages including Chinese, Japanese and Koreanord, Excel and Text output formats
- On-line Video Converter : Convert on-line video to mp3 or mp4
- Photo Editor–iPiccy
- Photo Story 3
- Padlet: Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to. Invite collaborators to add content, comment, like and make edits in real-time. Add photos, documents, web links, video, and music to make the text come alive. Padlet Tutorial Video
- Powtoon: Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations
- Socrative:Your classroom app for fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments. Tutorial Video on Socrative.
- Survey Monkey
- Utellstory:a multimedia storytelling and sharing community. It is a service for creating and sharing audio slideshows. You can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support your entire story.
- Video-Making: 8 Best Website To Create Online Cartoon Videos For Free
- Wevideo: WeVideo is the online video editor that makes it easy to capture, create, view and share your movies
- Word It Out: Transform your text into word clouds!
- WordClouds:Generate Word Clouds
- Free Apps for making videos
- Flipagram: Put separate videos into one/
- Filmmaker Pro: Add subtitles and add thought bubbles
- Inshot–Editing pictures
- Aviary
Funding Opportunities
- Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program:
- This program provides funds to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages. (For 2016-17, applications were accepted from June 13, 2016 through July 22, 2016.)
Website Resources for Teaching/Learning
- VIRTUAL AND IN SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
- Exploratorium
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
- ASCD
- Center on the Developing Child–Harvard University
- Common Sense Education
- iNACOL (the International Association for K–12 Online Learning)
- The Creative Curriculum (Also read Theory and Creative Curriculum)
- Creative teachers and creative teaching – steveslearning.com
- Education World
- JFF: “JFF accelerates the alignment and transformation of the American workforce and education systems to ensure access to economic advancement for all.”
- Education Oasis Resources for Teachers by Teachers
- Edudemic: Connecting Education & Technology
- Edutopia: GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
- Linguistics and Philosophy | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Courses
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- Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies (a free on-line course)
- Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media (a free on-line course)
- Project Approach Study Guide
- Teaching Guide for GSIs | GSI Teaching & Resource Center–UC Berkeley
- Teaching Guides–DePaul.edu
- Teaching Guide: Writing Lesson Plans
- Teaching Guides – University of Wyoming
- The Teacher‘s Guides To Technology And Learning | Edudemic
- Reading Guide | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets
- Strategy Guides – ReadWriteThink
- Study Guides and Strategies
- Thinkport Education
- Curriki: A community for teaching or studying: Create, share, and explore high quality K-12 content
- Open Educational Resources Commons:OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Inspirational Quotes for Teaching and Learning
–If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. John Dewey
–Education should no longer be mostly imparting knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potential. Maria Montessori
–Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
–I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein.
–The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. Seymour Papert
–In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future while the learned find themselves equipped in live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
–What we learn to do, we learn by doing. Thomas Jefferson
–Educating students to shape their lives, their professions, and their societies.
— A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart.
–A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Brad Henry
–Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt
–Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Solomon Ortiz
–One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
–The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
–A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
–The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. Mike Krzyzewski
–The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. Dan Rather
–I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. John Wooden
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