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Bringing the Standards into the Classroom-A Teacher's Guide


The purpose of this guide is to assist teachers in aligning their present foreign language curriculum with the national standards for student learning. This document will enable teachers to identify which aspects of their current curriculum fit with the standards and how these can be extended and adapted to address the new dimensions of the standards. This document is designed to be used in varied teaching environments from kindergarten through grade twelve. It is not intended to substitute for guides on how to write curriculum-instead, its purpose is to assist teachers in linking their existing curriculum with the standards and in planning for future curriculum work. This guide is divided into three main sections. Each of these sections is relevant to all teachers since the concepts developed in them will enrich classroom teaching at all levels. The first section addresses developing foreign language curriculum. The second and the third sections are designed to meet the needs that are most common today at the grade levels indicated: "Connecting Thematic Units to the Standards at the K-8 Level" and "How to Teach Foreign Language in Secondary School Programs Using the Standards."