#192How 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 curriculumstrategies and techniques for blending CI with the requirements of a textbook curriculumspecific examples of successfully integrating CI into a textbook lessonhow teachers can make sure that their use of CI aligns with the learning objectives and assessments outlined in the textbookrecommendations for teachers who are new to CI but are required to follow a textbook curriculumEp 86: Lots of Activities for Any Reading with Ashley MikkelsenConnect with Ashley Mikkelsen:Instagram: @srta_spanishTikTok: @srta_spanishX/Twitter:@afulks2013Website: srtaspanish.comConnect with Joshua and the World Language Classroom Community: wlclassrom.comX (aka Twitter):  @wlclassroomThreads: @wlclassroomInstagram:  @wlclassroomFacebook:  /wlclassroomWLClassroom Facebook Group__________________________Interested in having Joshua work directly with your department, school or district?  Look at options for collaborating in person or remotely.______________________________Sign up for Talking Points to get  tips, tools and resources for your language teaching.______________________________Join Joshua as a guest on the podcast.______________________________Join Joshua for a Leveling Up Coaching Episode  on the podcast.  Send me a text and let me know your thoughts on this episode or the podcast.

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