MaFLA Proficiency Academy, 2017

Once the proficiency mindset to teaching has been embraced and curriculum and assessments designed to support it, the remaining critical ingredient is how the teacher implements it all.  Current research is replete with the message that the deciding factor in student success is the teacher--and it is not what the teacher knows that makes the difference but rather what the teacher does.  This session will focus on those research-based messages about what world language teachers should be doing to maximize the effects of teaching and learning.