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Curriculum Club Coffee Break

by Tina Hargaden

Get 20 minutes of fresh-brewed language teacher talk on the regular.

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  1. Curriculum Club Community Poetry

    This is a beautiful community writing piece from the 2020-21 launch. We wrote a poem in the Zoom chat, working together, using a strategy called Community Poetry. It was based on what everyone wrote into the chat during some Private Think Time, during which they were writing about the most...

  2. 30. Setting Learning Targets and Backwards Design....with the Brain in Mind

    Learn more about setting learning targets that really work.....and check out these resources: Cycle One Rubrics and Continua Cycle Two Phase Two Rubrics and Continua and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know!…

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  3. 29. Update on Our New Reality & Thoughts on Teaching Languages in a MASK!

    Learn more about What's Up in Tina Land and Teaching Languages in a MASK......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future...

  4. 28. Introduction to the Opinion/Argument Cycle

    Learn more about Cycle Five, the Opinion or Argument Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you...

  5. 27. Phase Four of the Information Cycle

    Learn more about Phase Four of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you are…

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  6. 26. What About Multiple Levels (Again)?

    Learn more about Setting Learning Objectives that Allow for Maximum Differentiation......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on…

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  7. 25. Phase Three of the Information Cycle

    Learn more about Cycle Four Phase Three......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you are not a…

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  8. 24. Curriculum Club and Me!

    Learn more about how I REALLY feel about Curriculum Club......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you…

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  9. 23. Phase Two of the Information Cycle

    Learn more about the second phase of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you...

  10. 22. Phase One of the Information Cycle

    Learn more about the first phase of the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you…

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  11. 21. Introduction to the Information Cycle

    Learn more about the Information Cycle......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode! If you are not a Curriculum...

  12. 20. Cornell Notes

    Learn more about how to use Cornell Notes in the World Language classroom......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future...

  13. 19. Hiring and Training Student Actors to Bring the Noise...So You Don't Have to Be "The Funny One"

    Learn more about the easy way to start using student actors to bring more fun to your lessons, and get in more dialogue using the "I" and "you" forms of verbs......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave…

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  14. 17. Easing Your Way into Stories

    Learn more about low(er)-stress ways to tell your first stories of the year......please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a future episode!...

  15. End-of-the-Month Mail Call!

    Thanks for being awesome, congratulations to winner of the monthly mail call, Eva Schulte, and happy November!

  16. 16. Transitioning to Cycle Two: Narration

    Learn more about starting Cycle Two, Narration, in the Stepping Stones curriculum......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas featured on a...

  17. 15. The Description Cycle in Upper Levels

    Learn more about planning Description-focused Guided Oral Input, your Shared Writing focus, and strategies for student application of the language for your more-proficient students......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you...

  18. 14: The Narration Cycle in Upper Levels

    Learn more about planning Narration-focused Guided Oral Input, your Shared Writing focus, and strategies for student application of the language for your more-proficient students......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you…

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  19. 13. Planning for Multiple Levels

    Learn more about adapting the same lesson, phase, and cycle to multiple levels of language class......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself or your ideas...

  20. 12. Planning Daily Lessons

    Learn more about planning daily lessons using the daily instructional framework known as the "Daily Dose of Language" in classes of various lengths and schedules......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know!…

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  21. 11. The Trajectory of the Year and Setting Long-Term Goals

    Learn more about where exactly it is that you are going with these Stepping Stones or Curriculum Club lessons, cycles, phases, and all that......and then please let me know what you think or if you have questions, comments, feedback, or anything else you want me to know! Leave me a voice message...

  22. 10. You're Actually Doing Great!

    Get a little pep talk about how awesome you're doing......and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list. We will open registration around Thanksgiving for our Fall cohorts. The...

  23. 9. Proficiency/Performance and Planning Portfolio Assessments

    Learn more about portfolio assessments.....and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! Note: I was recording this with my dog Max beside me, and he had a coughing fit. So, that is the racket you can hear behind me. Advance apologies! If you are not a...

  24. 8. Kid Grid and the Mysterious Person Game

    Learn more about using the information your students share in class to review and reinforce, and have fun, too ......and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! In this episode, I reference these documents. Kid Grid The Mysterious Person Game and Kid...

  25. 7. Card Talk and Academic Card Talk

    Learn more about using Card Talk, a versatile strategy that can be used throughout the year...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! In this episode, I reference these documents. Card Talk and Academic Card Talk Graphic Organizers for Card Talk If...

  26. 6: Visual Surveys for Description and Narration

    Learn more about using the low-prep, re-useable, and versatile Visual Surveys strategy...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! In this episode, I reference these documents. Visual Surveys Graphic Organizers that can be used with Visual Surveys...

  27. 5. Go to Your Administrator.

    Learn more about speaking into your administrator’s listening by using some “buzzwords” to unpack what is happening in your World Language classroom using the materials and systems in Stepping Stones Year One and Beyond...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a...

  28. 4: Using Graphic Organizers and Why It's Worth Finding Ways to Make Our Lives Easier in the Classroom

    Learn more about using and grading graphic organizers to manage the paperwork load...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! In this episode, I reference these documents. Shawna's Grading Trick for Entering Grades Speedy Quick Graphic Organizers…

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  29. 3: Using Graphic Organizers to Make Your Life Easier...and Make Room for Differentiation and Higher-Order Thinking Skills!

    Learn more about graphic organizers...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! In this episode, I reference these documents. Graphic Organizers for Story Maps If you are not a Curriculum Club member, you can sign up for our waiting list. We will…

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  30. 2: Planning Daily Lessons Starting from Guided Oral Input

    Learn more about planning directly from the Overview document......and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! I will talk about using the Overview documents to plan your own lessons, without having to rely on the lesson outlines in Curriculum Club...

  31. 1: Overview of the Cycles and Phases

    Learn more about the cycles and phases...and leave me a voice message here. You might find yourself featured on a future episode! I reference these overview documents. Cycle Three Phase One Cycle Three Phase Two Cycle Three Phase Three Cycle Three Phase Four If you are not a Curriculum Club…

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Get 20 minutes of fresh-brewed language teacher talk on the regular.

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