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Click FlexText® page icons to navigate back and forth from FlexText® content to authentic resource links, activities, and assessments in Explorer®.
Activities in Explorer® support learners in acquiring or reinforcing vocabulary and grammar in context. Explorer® offers tasks in all modes of communication, including additional interpersonal tasks via online writing and recorded speaking opportunities. Expansion activities can be assigned to your entire class or to specific learners, and the Instructional Strategy Toolkit offers 200+ ideas you can filter by learner styles, proficiency level, and more.
Classroom Forum is a flexible feature that educators can use to pose lesson openers, polls, links to external resources, and more. Learners and teachers can use Classroom Forum anytime as their community "bulletin board." Teachers love posting lesson openers and more, and students can comment, exchange GIFS, upload audio/video/photos, etc.
Discussion Forum tasks are included in Explorer® tasks themselves, providing educators an easy way to assign, monitor, and grade task-specific communications.
Authentic resources always relate directly to unit themes and inspire communicative activities. In Explorer®, these resources include video, audio, links to podcasts and news stations from around the world, and more.
Learning Site® supports educators in implementing a basic discovery approach to grammar. Assign instructional strategy videos to enhance student growth across skills!
Online student portfolios follow learners from unit to unit, level to level. Students can upload evidence of what they can do in the language, reflect on their progress related to Can-Do Statements, and set goals.
Use the online calendar to remind students of upcoming assignments and deadlines, assign tasks to specific learners or an entire class, and more.
Deliver feedback with the option to record or write comments. Assess progress through a variety of formative assessments, and evaluate language and intercultural proficiency growth through IPA summative assessments - all with a goal of informing learners of how far they've come, and what they should focus on next.
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Our Teaching Resources page shares lessons learned in the field on a variety of proficiency-oriented topics. Here are a few that support flex instruction. Subscribe for insights shared straight to your inbox!
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Classroom Strategies
My large public-school district outside of Portland, Oregon started the school year with 100% comprehensive distance learning, and for now it will continue through at least February. From the beginning, I knew there would be a constant battle with students about using their cameras, so I decided I would not require them during class.
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Classroom Strategies
My district, like so many others, opted for a hybrid model this fall, combining in-person classes in the mornings with online classes in the afternoons. As you can imagine, I realized quickly that I had to rethink my methods, get creative, and be innovative.
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Teacher Support
Now that we’ve had about a month of this new school year, how do you feel? Overwhelmed? Exhausted? Challenged? Perhaps even discouraged? You have heard it already: This is a totally different school year. What do we do when these feelings grab at us?
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You can explore more than 200 activities in the Instructional Strategies Toolkit for Learning Site® educators. Once you log in, click Learning Tools, and open the Instructional Strategies Toolkit. Use the filters in the toolkit to navigate by mode of communication, proficiency level, learning style, and beyond.
Research Based and ACTFL Aligned
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