Q How can I incorporate 100% CI into my classroom using: Invisibles/OWI/story listening while writing/incorporating a curriculum?
If we stop having those weekly or monthly markers for certain words that are supposed to have been taught by a certain date, we have the luxury of not being tied down into small increments of time by the dimwitted and controlling “district/department needs”. Those who claim to know about assessment, who assess in the old way, in pieces that their traditional kids can prepare for by memorizing, are making an egregious mistake. To think that a teacher using CI has to align with the “curriculum” is disturbing, because it doesn’t align with what the research says about how people learn languages. In the case of language instruction, the assessment must mirror the instruction and the curriculum needs to be completely divorced from its bedmate, the textbook companies. It is insulting to a professional educator who understands that CI is the only way a person can learn a language to have to “meet district/departmental needs.”