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How much flexibility or autonomy do you have over your curriculum? Are you able to integrate CI techniques and procedures? This can be a bit challenging if our curriculum is aligned with chapters in a textbook or prescribed units. Today I speak with Ashley Mikkelsen, a Spanish teacher in North Dakota. Ashley talks us through her personal journey and experience integrating CI activities into her textbook-aligned curriculum that also includes common assessments. And these assessments are not always proficiency-based. Is this possible? Ashley shows us how with her quintessential realistic lens.

Topics in this Episode:

• Challenges teachers face when trying to incorporate Comprehensible Input (CI) within a textbook-driven curriculum
• strategies and techniques for blending CI with the requirements of a textbook curriculum
• specific examples of successfully integrating CI into a textbook lesson
• how teachers can make sure that their use of CI aligns with the learning objectives and assessments outlined in the textbook
• recommendations for teachers who are new to CI but are required to follow a textbook curriculum
• Ep 86: Lots of Activities for Any Reading with Ashley Mikkelsen

Connect with Ashley Mikkelsen:

• Instagram: @srta_spanish
• TikTok: @srta_spanish
• X/Twitter:@afulks2013
• Website: srtaspanish.com

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• wlclassrom.com
• X (aka Twitter): @wlclassroom
• Threads: @wlclassroom
• Instagram: @wlclassroom
• Facebook: /wlclassroom
• WLClassroom Facebook Group

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