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Dear Colleagues, As you know, the Connecticut Common Core of Teaching Standards which were adopted by the CT Board of Education in 1999 are currently under revision. One committee is revising the Foundational Teaching Standards (those standards that are expected from all teachers, regardless of the content they teach), and separate committees are revising the content-specific teaching standards. Recently, a committee of world language teachers and teacher leaders drafted a revised set of world language-specific teaching standards (see link below). The committee consulted the ACTFL/NCATE standards to revise the specific skills, knowledge and dispositions expected from world language teachers in Connecticut. Many of you have been involved in this process since its inception, while others have come on-board to help us with editing and revising our earlier drafts. I have created these Wiki pages in order to facilitate our discussion of the final draft of the World Language Standards. I hope that this will make feedback easier for all to manage. By using this Wiki as our medium for discussion, we should be able to streamline this whole process. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion questions and to add your comments to the standards. I am attaching links for the [|ACTFL/NCATE Standards], the CCT DRAFT WL STANDARDS and the questions that will be open for discussion. Please use the discussion forum tab to enter your comments. You will notice that the latest draft of our CCT WL STANDARDS is very different from the last iteration. It was decided that most of the areas that we were addressing would be handled in the Foundational Teaching Standards. We were instructed to address only domain 1 (Content and Essential Skills), domain 3 (Planning and Instruction) and domain 4 (Managing, Monitoring and Motivating Student Behavior and Engagement). Looking at the CCT, it became clear that there were redundencies in every content area and the recommendation was for all disciplines to follow the same format. Once again, allow me to thank you so much for all of your help and input into this process. You have provided an invaluable service to world language teachers all over the state. I look forward to hearing from you all. Sincerely,

Dorothy Raviele tir_languages@ct.gov