Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for World Language Teachers, 2nd Edition

In this new edition of a bestseller, author Deborah Blaz helps you differentiate lessons for your world language students based on their learning styles, interests, prior knowledge, and comfort zones. This practical book uses brain-based teaching strategies to help students of all ability levels thrive in a rigorous differentiated learning environment. Each chapter provides classroom-tested activities and tiered lesson plans to help you teach vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, and writing in world language classes in ways that are interactive, engaging, and effective for all learners.

Features new to this edition include:

1. Sample thematic units to make your lessons more authentic and immersive
2. New strategies for using technology to differentiate world language instruction
3. Additional checklists, rubrics, and feedback forms to help you organize your lesson plans and track students’ progress
4. New connections to the Common Core State Standards, the ACTFL Standards, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, and Bloom’s Taxonomy

You’ll also learn how to differentiate assessment effectively to help all students show their full potential. Classroom-ready tools and templates can be downloaded as free eResources from our website (www.routledge.com/9781138906181) for immediate use.

About the Author:

Deborah Blaz began teaching as an assistant while living and studying in France in 1970. She has taught elementary students in summer school programs, and has been teaching French (and occasionally English and German) for over 40 years now, at secondary and college levels during the school year. Deb currently teaches French 1-4, with French 3 and 4 as dual credit (college and high school) through Ivy Tech and in the past has also taught AP French.

She has studied French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and a little Italian, Swedish, and Russian.
Deb loves technology and is a Google certified teacher, as well as FlipGrid and EdPuzzle certified. She has created several lessons for the Promethean web site, managed the state IAATF site for several years, ran the Indiana teachers' Instagram site for a week last fall, and participates in many PLN groups on Facebook and on Twitter.

Deb loves giving workshops from coast to coast and overseas and has also done several keynote speeches. She loves teaching, whether students or colleagues.