I hope the first months of school have been getting off to a good start. Happy conferences and progress report writing! If you have trouble with the link above, click here: Lead with Languages
Sharing a Classroom:
Our classroom designation can change from year to year and this year many of us find ourselves sharing a space and becoming more mobile. Respecting each other's space and time in a shared classroom can be tricky. If you have ideas, use the comment section to help each other out. Some ideas from the article attached are:
Stock up on everything
Keep it together and orgnaized
Prepare ahead of time
Collaborate with collegues
Bolster learning with mobile lessons
For more thoughts, read the complete article Lessons a La Cart
Subs in Upper School WL- Part 2
Thanks for all of your patience with the emails this pst month trying to find sub coverage. I will be emailing only those available during free blocks and putting together a schedule from there. If you have any ideas to streamline the system, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks!
Upper School Chromebook sign-up
Please use the calendar sign up for the Chromebooks. We have a class set of 18 that can be used. You may check out the number of Chromebooks you need, so that others can share as well. They are housed in the World Language office in a couple of plastic bins.
*Remember that for MS/IS ipad checkout, an online calendar is also used
Library Usage-
Don't forget to tap into our MS/IS and US libraries. Thanks to Kari Dalane we are working on Lib guides. Please contact her directly to add to her list of resources in languages for our students. Brian Parry has also purchased books in the last few years that are award winners and of diverse main characters. We can do research and connect other disciplines to ours, here is a list of ideas..
World Language Project Ideas
Midd Online- Thanks to Ingrid for this PDF of extension activities for the language classroom
Middlebury Extension Activities
US Spring Exam weight
The steering committee discussed the weighting of year-end US exams in terms of calculating semester grades. After much discussion of different alternatives—different weights for different grade levels or subjects—the committee decided to leave the existing exam weighting policy in place. In other words, final exams will primarily focus on the material studied in the second semester and will count for 20% (approximately) of the second semester grades.
Classroom projects for this year
Many of you have already shared ideas about projects you are continuing or initiating in your classes. I hope to be able to talk more with you about these projects and visit a class where I can see your project in place. Please submit a form during our meeting about one idea you are developing and wish me to see and give you feedback on. Please bring a computer to our department meeting.
October meeting agenda
I am beginning to collect course syllabi, placement exams and final exams (from last year) for our files. Please bring what you have to the next meeting. The items will be filed in our language office. We can also begin an electronic file if you have any electronic copies of these items. Please email me them as you can.
Our October 14th Meeting located in IS room- 187 (Sarah and Mark's classroom)
Please bring a computer to the meeting
1. Kahoot (Sarah Matey)
2. Announcements
3. VAIS update
4. Middlebury online demo
