Educators aim for a trauma-sensitive teaching approach to avoid harming students, particularly concerning family topics. Traditional family projects can stigmatize, prompting the need for reimagined activities focusing on self-identification and inclusive representations of family. Various creative alternatives highlight diverse family structures while fostering essential language learning and providing a supportive environment.
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What Is “Covering the Curriculum” Anyway?
Let’s upgrade our thinking in planning for instruction in the World Language (specifically, the Italian) classroom and throw out our old pacing guides and scopes and sequences! This does not mean we just wing it without thoughtfully planning units but it does help us respond quickly to our learners’ own communicative goals and purposes. It also gives us more time with all of our learners individually, even in larger classes!
Project-Based Italian 