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Authentic Resources
Authentic Resources: What They Are, Where to Find Them, and How To Use Them
Authentic resources. That buzz word seems to be everywhere these days. It’s thrown around as if it were a beach ball in Miami.
Cristin Bleess has been a language educator for over twenty-five years, teaching both Spanish and English as a foreign language and serving as a World Language district coordinator. She is passionate about teaching and grading for proficiency to help students truly learn to communicate in other languages. She helps teachers infuse their teaching practice with these ideas through presenting workshops and training sessions at language conferences and schools around the country.
Outside of the classroom, Cristin is a past president of her state language association and was a contributing author of Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development.
Cristin is a voracious world explorer with grassroots community experiences including a Peace Corps English teaching role in Albania, where she began a local running club in which women could run and socialize within the safety and camaraderie of a group. She has lived and worked in four countries, and traveled to an additional twenty-one. She continues to be an enthusiastic runner and has run races on three different continents.
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Authentic Resources
Authentic resources. That buzz word seems to be everywhere these days. It’s thrown around as if it were a beach ball in Miami.
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Authentic Resources
Professional Development
Classroom Strategies
I have always focused on getting my students to use the language in the classes I have taught, even before anyone was talking about the “path to proficiency”.
Professional Development
Classroom Strategies
Grades should be effective communication vehicles, and the methods used to determine them need to provide optimum opportunities for student success and to encourage learning.
Professional Development
Classroom Strategies
In the first two installments of our proficiency-based grading series, we discussed how I came to use a proficiency-based grading system and ideas on how to set up a proficiency-based grade book.
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