Edutopia – Patrick Brown and Eric Richards
Explore-before-explain teaching is an invitation to rethink the roles of teachers and students in world language classrooms, increase student agency for learning, and promote the unique combination of dimensions of complicated standards presented by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). In this article, we explore three essential planning considerations and examine an instructional sequence called explore-before-explain teaching. This method helps to immediately engage all students in a meaning-making process leading to deep understanding and sensemaking.