Keys to Planning (Second Edition)

Overview

Unlock Effective World Language Teaching

Keys to Planning (Second Edition) provides language educators with a practical guide to designing engaging, standards-based curriculum, units, and lessons. Authors Donna Clementi and Laura Terrill share strategies for developing Intercultural Communicative Competence and integrating 21st Century Literacy and Global Competence into your teaching.

This resource helps teachers, curriculum designers, and administrators:

• Design thematic units aligned with World-Readiness Standards
• Create learner-centered classrooms
• Develop effective assessment strategies
• Incorporate practical lesson plan templates

Transform your world language classroom and empower students with the skills they need for success in a globalized world. Ideal for world language teachers, curriculum designers, and professional developers seeking to enhance their instructional practices.

Author Biography

Donna Clementi is currently a lecturer in World Language Methods at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. She taught French and was the World Languages Program Leader in the Appleton Area School District (WI) for 33 years. She also spent 38 summers working at Concordia Language Villages at the French Language Village and leading professional development seminars for world language instructors. Since 2006, she has been co-leader of the CARLA Summer Institute on Second Language Assessments at the University of Minnesota. Clementi has served as President of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT). Chair of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL), and board member of ACTFL. Clementi’s honors include: ACTFL’s Florence Steiner Award for K-12 Leadership in Foreign Languages (2000); Distinguished Foreign Language Educator Award from the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (2002); Supervisor of the Year Award by the National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages (2004); Les Palmes Academiques from the French government (2008); Founders Award from the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2012).Laura Terrill holds a BA in French from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and a MA in Secondary Administration from Northeast Missouri State University and has worked more than 40 years in the educational profession. She taught French at all levels K-12 for 21 years before becoming the Coordinator of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language and then, Director of Curriculum. She has taught methods courses in St. Louis and in Indianapolis and continues to present at the local, state, regional and national levels. She recently worked as a Content Specialist for the National Foreign Language Resource Center working with the STARTALK program. She has served on the Board of Directors for Central States and ACTFL. She is the recipient of the Founders Award for Central States, has been named as the NADSFL District Supervisor of the Year and has received the ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership. She is currently working as an Independent Consultant.