Location: IS French/Chinese room 182
Agenda
15 minutes- only Upper School- TLC discussion (the norms/schedule and places)
20 minutes - All- share feedback from Mission/Philosophy statement (sent in email mission/philosophy and then in the meeting partner talk to whole group)
What do we uphold?
From curriculum committee share- discussion on 50%?
as a minimum for major projects, tests
(report grade on academic notice accurately but in gradebook
shows as a 50%?)
5 minute transition
Announcements: Antonietta-ACTFL, SYA: Nov. 19th Enrique Granados on
campus in the morning, Governor's School candidates, anything else?
20 minutes- All team time breakout
ideas:
Spanish- US review electives proposals ideas, MS/IS Atlas review
Latin- Atlas work and vocabulary development, class visits
French- accommodations and French SYA visitor, Atlas
Chinese- Integrated Chinese text development, Atlas
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| November 22-24, 2019 Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC 801 Mount Vernon Place NW Washington, DC 20001 (Pre-convention Workshops – November 21, 2019) |
ACTFL 2019
CI-FOCUSED SESSIONS
The In(put)s and Out(put)s of Comprehensible Input
Input is the “in” thing in language education. Giving great, comprehensible input is the best we can give our language students. This input gives students the foundation they need to become part of the world’s community of bilinguals (or MULTIlinguals). The tricky part is knowing when and how to anticipate language production. In this session, participants will learn about ACTFL’s proficiency levels and will explore units that provide a steady stream of essential input while encouraging students to output when they’re ready. Participants will actively engage in activities, readings, and tricks for unit design that they can take back to their classrooms on Monday!
The In(put)s and Out(put)s of Comprehensible Input
Input is the “in” thing in language education. Giving great, comprehensible input is the best we can give our language students. This input gives students the foundation they need to become part of the world’s community of bilinguals (or MULTIlinguals). The tricky part is knowing when and how to anticipate language production. In this session, participants will learn about ACTFL’s proficiency levels and will explore units that provide a steady stream of essential input while encouraging students to output when they’re ready. Participants will actively engage in activities, readings, and tricks for unit design that they can take back to their classrooms on Monday!
15 Easy Peer Teaching Strategies to Help Students
Peer tutoring activities — whether occasional or frequent — can deliver research-backed benefits to both the student-tutee and student-tutor, not to mention teachers. Read more
ACTFL ASSESSMENTS
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ACTFL RELEASES ASSESSMENT TOPICS FOR 2020
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ACTFL has released the content topics for the 2020 ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL), which is available in 13 languages. The newly released topics allow instructors to create classroom and homework-based opportunities for students to perform across all modes of communication before participating in the AAPPL in the spring of 2020.
AAPPL is an assessment of proficiency and performance designed to complement classroom-based language learning. As such, ACTFL provides the general 2020 topics so that learners may have the opportunity to practice “tasks within familiar contexts” (ACTFL Performance Descriptors for Language Learners, 2012, p. 5). Teachers are encouraged to use these topics to create classroom and homework-based opportunities to facilitate learners’ practice across all modes of communication.
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FUTURE TEACHERS
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Inaugural Class of Lead with Languages Teacher Scholars
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The Lead with Languages Teacher Scholarship Program awards merit-based funding to graduating high school seniors committed to pursuing the language teaching profession in languages other than English. This autumn, the inaugural class of ten Scholars are headed to university campuses across the United States to begin their journeys to becoming language educators.
When asked about their motivation to teach, the Scholars pointed to goals both personal and global:
"Language is about more than communication. It connects you to the world around you. Learning and teaching both connect people to each other, deepening our understandings of each other, and bringing us just a little bit closer to a just and peaceful world."
Scholarship recipients receive an award of $1,500 per academic year which may be renewed three times for a cumulative total of $6,000. Upon graduation and entry into the teaching field, the Scholars will also receive 1-year complimentary ACTFL membership, including access to the ACTFL Mentoring Program.
Field Notes
Building a Global Classroom
Learn how the creation of a global math classroom supports students as they live and learn abroad.
Fall 2019 Photo Essay
Take a visual tour around the world with the SYA Class of 2020 in this photo essay featuring highlights from the first weeks abroad.
Launching the Practicum
The SYA Practicum is a first-of-its-kind course allowing students to engage in competency-based education in an authentic environment.
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SYTA and independent market research provider BONARD launched the Student Travel Business Barometer, earlier this year. This survey collected data from 94 leading tour operators spanning 21 countries—representing more than 1 million students!
Among the key findings: More than half of those responding reported increases in the number of students traveling in Q1 2019, compared to Q1 2018. This, in turn, translated into larger average group size.
SPECIAL TONY AWARD® RECIPIENT
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
"WHEN YOU’RE CONTENDING WITH AN ENTIRE COUNTRY THAT BELIEVES THAT CINCO DE MAYO IS, LIKE, THE LATINO 4TH OF JULY, YOU KNOW YOU’VE GOT SOME EDUCATIN’ TO DO. JOHN LEGUIZAMO’S LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS IS THE BROADWAY SHOW THAT WE NEED IN A TIME WHEN ASYLUM SEEKERS SIT IN CAGES AT THE BORDER AND MOST AMERICANS WOULD NAME PITBULL AS THE MOST IMPORTANT LATINO OF OUR TIME. LEGUIZAMO’S MEANINGFUL PAEAN TO THE STRUGGLE AND HISTORY OF THE LATINX PEOPLE IS FULL OF TONGUE-IN-CHEEK ASIDES AND FASCINATING HISTORICAL TIDBITS. LOOK UP HIS SYLLABUS FOR THE PROGRAM ONLINE (FULL OF INTERESTING READING MATERIAL) AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A NIGHT OF EYE-OPENING HISTORICAL NARRATIVE." (DALLAS OBSERVER)
"I GREW UP WITHOUT SEEING PEOPLE WHO LOOKED LIKE ME ON SCREEN, ON STAGE, OR IN TEXTBOOKS. LATINX PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KEPT OUTTA THE CONVERSATION FOR CENTURIES, AND IT’S BOUT TIME YA’LL HEAR WHAT WE GOTTA SAY! NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO COME OUT AND FINALLY GET YOUR DEGREE FROM A GHETTO SCHOLAR!" -JOHN LEGUIZAMO
More songs in the classroom: Celebrate Languages French, Spanish and Chinese
Last Wednesday, a group of seventh and eighth graders participated in the IS Language Club, which featured Spanish this month. Students cycled through stations to learn about the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). They made sugar skulls out of marshmallows, crafted tissue-paper cempasuchil (marigold) flowers, and colored calacas (skulls).
Join us for an interest meeting about an exciting travel opportunity: a trip to Spain and Morocco for ninth and tenth graders, which will take place June 11-21, 2020. The meeting will be held in Room U327 on October 30, 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
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