Location: Learning Support Suite U216
3:30-4:30
Agenda
- Jenn Durham- conversation on language accommodations 4-12
- Interpretive teaching examples
- Work on WL Overview spreadsheets in Team Drive (bring computers)
*Note: Spring placement dates are Tuesday, May 14th after school and Saturday, May 18th in the morning. More specific information will come as the dates near.
Vista Higher Learning Interpretive Webinar
AATSP webinar series pt1
Buried on page 65 of one of my very favorite teaching books, The Keys to Planning for Learning, there is a real gem: TALK rubrics. The teacher uses the following criteria to assess students on interpersonal speaking tasks:
Target language use
Accuracy on specific structures
Listening and responding appropriately to peers
Kindness in being an equal and inclusive conversation partner
I find that groups of 6-8 students can each speak at least 5 times in a 10-minute session, enough to give me a snapshot of their current proficiency. This means that I can assess my my entire class (18-24 students) in one 45-minute period. And...there are no recordings to bring home! For me, that means that my students will actually get feedback from me in a day or two...instead of never : ). (Click on the blue title for more.)
Target language use
Accuracy on specific structures
Listening and responding appropriately to peers
Kindness in being an equal and inclusive conversation partner
I find that groups of 6-8 students can each speak at least 5 times in a 10-minute session, enough to give me a snapshot of their current proficiency. This means that I can assess my my entire class (18-24 students) in one 45-minute period. And...there are no recordings to bring home! For me, that means that my students will actually get feedback from me in a day or two...instead of never : ). (Click on the blue title for more.)
We’ve reached a point where most teachers embrace the idea of student-directed learning, the philosophy of being the guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage. We can also appreciate the value of cross-curricular studies, blending math and science, for example, or integrating arts and music into history class. So why are so many teachers still using the same old model, where we plan and deliver lessons in separate subjects, in lock step, using the same traditional schedule as we always have?
Boomalang is a conversation platform and international team of native speakers, trained to guide 15-min. and 30-min. conversations in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Serving over 70 universities and schools each semester, Boomalang provides educators a way to integrate authentic, one-on-one immersive experiences for students in beginner, intermediate and advanced courses. (Seriously, even novice lows...)
Marzano explains that choice can be provided in four ways: choice of task, choice of reporting formats, choice of learning goals, and choice of behaviors.
Assessment, Choice, and the Learning Brain
If you really want to see how innovative a school is, inquire about its thinking and practices regarding assessment. For the students, does the mere thought of assessment trigger stress? Do the teachers rely heavily on high-stakes, multiple-choice, Bell Curve-generating tests? Or do the students seem relaxed and engaged as teachers experiment with new forms of assessment designed to support deep and lasting learning?Click here for more.
Activitites after reading
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Registration for the ACTFL 2019 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo is now open. ACTFL 2019 will occur in Washington, DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on November 22-24. Pre-convention workshops will take place on November 21. We'll see you in DC.
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Summer Institute
SUMMER TEACHER INSTITUTE: EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
The Summer Institute is designed for classroom teachers, providing them an understanding of how experiential education pedagogy and practice can help enhance their academic curricula and classroom practice. To provide focus to the discussions and stronger opportunities to develop community, the Institute will group three discipline cohorts together at a time (past groupings have included English, Humanities/Social Studies, and World Languages as one cohort and Sciences, Math, and Performing/Visual Arts as another cohort). Note: teachers of literature-based courses (philosophy, religion, etc.) may find the English cohort relevant to join. Educational administrators are welcome to join us at any time but will need to choose one academic discipline to focus their time and learning with.
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Global Online Academy -Not just for students!!
Join us for the Learning Design Summit!
Monday, June 24th-Thursday, June 27th, 2019 at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA (USA)
Our Learning Design Summit is a unique K12 professional development conference that embraces ideas based on learning science, education research, and our work teaching students and coaching educators. Ready to learn and design with GOA this summer?
REGISTER
Elevate Education Consulting
Teaching with Comprehensible Input: The Why, What, and How (Level 1 intensive)
Elevate Education Consulting (Rachelle Adams & Anna Gilcher, PhD)
June 24 - 26, 9 am - 4 pm
E.W. Stokes Public Freedom Charter School, Brookland Campus, Washington, DC
These skill-building sessions offer the World Language educator instruction in the best practices of teaching with Comprehensible Input and the brain research associated with it. The series also includes training in Total Physical Response (TPR) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). The sessions will address assessment and unit planning, & ACTFL proficiency levels and Can-Do statements. A strong emphasis on reflection, practice, and coaching will be encouraged to improve implementation. The sessions will address how to build diversity-positive world language classrooms with a focus on bias, stereotyping, and tools to address these pitfalls.
Teaching with Comprehensible Input: Taking Your Skills to the Next Level - Building Culturally Responsive CI Classrooms (Level 2 intensive)
Elevate Education Consulting (Rachelle Adams & Anna Gilcher, PhD)
June 27 - 29, 9 am - 4 pm
E.W. Stokes Public Freedom Charter School, Brookland Campus, Washington, DC
You’ve made the paradigm shift from grammar-based instruction to teaching with comprehensible input, but how can you go deeper? This summer intensive will move you forward in your journey as a Second Language Acquisition-focused teacher and will help you deepen your practice. This intensive specifically emphasizes how to create culturally responsive world language classrooms. Sessions include: Techniques & Strategies for the CI Classroom; First Steps to Culturally Responsive CI; Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching (Zaretta Hammond); Helping Students See their Communicative Progress; Role of Assessment in the CI Classroom; Communicative Tasks (à la Bill VanPatten); Building Authentic Relationships in the Classroom; The Power of Story; (Re)Developing Scope & Sequence From a CI /CRT Perspective; Increased Student Enrollment in Upper-Level Courses (K - 12); Repurposing What We Have to Align with CI Principles
Jenni Ashley Updates:
In the various foreign language classes, students completed videos and podcasts. Such activities inspire students to use the language in conversational and innovative ways, complete with props, scenery, music, and sound effects. Here is just a sampling of projects:
- Spanish 2 Podcast
- Advanced Spanish Studies Video - look for how these students used the green screen
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NEWS
IS FRENCH STUDENTS CELEBRATE MARDI GRAS
You didn't need to be in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras last Tuesday! IS French students paraded around campus in festive garb before enjoying a feast prepared by parents. The students sampled classic crêpes made fresh on-site and also enjoyed a king cake. Thank you, parents, for your hard work organizing this celebration!
WORLD LANGUAGES FESTIVAL
On February 22, the IS celebrated its first-ever World Languages Festival. Games, crafts, music, and food that represented each of the languages taught in the IS – Chinese, French, Latin, and Spanish – were offered in the language classrooms. It was a great chance to learn more about world cultures, customs, and especially holidays, as students celebrated Mardi Gras, Carnaval, Lunar New Year, and Lupercalia!
WORLD LANGUAGE FESTIVAL RECAP
Friday, February 22nd, was our first ever World Language Festival. The four language rooms, Chinese, French, Spanish and Latin, had games, crafts, music and food. It was an opportunity to go into other classrooms than the language you take and learn about more cultures and customs. The festivals at this time of year like Mardi Gras, Carnaval, Lunar New Year, and Lupercalia are celebrated in other parts of the world and we brought them here to Potomac. We would like this to become an annual event and welcome feedback on how to make next year's celebrations even better! Click here to see more photos from the Festival!
SAY "FROMAGE"!
Seventh grade French students practiced how to ask for different cheeses in French during a recent field trip to the cheese counter at Balducci's Food Lover's Market. The fromagière happily conversed in French as she directed students to cheeses from the different regions they had researched. Noting texture, appearance, and smell, the students then recorded student and teacher preferences at a cheese tasting during the recent IS World Language Festival.
PARIS ON THE POTOMAC
Last week, 18 French students experienced a 90-minute French language visit to the Kreeger Museum. They listened with fascination to their docent as he taught them to "read" impressionist, abstract expressionist, and post-painterly works.
SOPHOMORE WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY IN CHINA
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Maher '21, who has been selected for a prestigious State Department National Security scholarship: the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y). This earns Kaitlyn a fully funded opportunity to study Mandarin Chinese in Xiamen, China, this summer! Only a select number of students out of thousands of applicants nationwide were chosen to receive this scholarship. Successful applicants for NSLI-Y programs, which focus on learning critical languages in their countries of origin, must "have the necessary linguistic skills and cultural knowledge to promote international dialogue and support American engagement abroad."
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NEWS
A TRIP TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of China-U.S. diplomatic relations, 15 IS students toured the Chinese embassy on April 2. During their tour, they learned about the history of diplomacy between the two countries, viewed priceless Chinese paintings, and examined different styles of calligraphy. Afterward, the students visited a Chinese restaurant for lunch, where they ordered their meals in Chinese.
AT THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
On April 2, the seventh grade advanced Spanish class went into DC to visit the Organization of American States, where they took a tour of the main buildings and museum. The organization was set up in 1948 to build economic, cultural, and military connections between countries in North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Member countries base their conversations on four pillars: democracy, human rights, security, and development. Everyone who works in the organization's offices is bilingual and from one of the participating countries or the U.S. The trip inspired students to think about ways in which they can use their Spanish in the future! The group later had lunch at La Tasca in DC.
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