SPANISH CURRICULUM WRITING TEAMNovember 26th, 2013

Collaborate to create a Road Map Spanish Curriculum

Purpose:

Collaborate to create a Road Map Spanish Curriculum

7:30-8:00 Reconnecting8:00-10:00 Standards Training10:00-10:30 Deliverable Rates & Sharepoint Training10:30-11:00 Work on Deliverables11:00-12:00 Lunch12:00-12:30 Common Assessments12:30- 3:50 Work on Deliverables3:50-4:00 Craft Summary Statement to share with Spanish teachers

CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES

• Tell who you are•One of this year’s challenges•One of this year’s successes

OBJECTIVE

• Be able to describe the link between the Common Core State Standards and the ACTFL Standards• Be able to use the Common Core State Standards for Spanish language arts to design curriculum for Spanish 1,2 & 3

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS (CCSS) – WHY?

Top “most important” skills from employers

• Professionalism/work ethic & teamwork/collaboration

• Communication

• Knowledge of other languages• 63.3% of employer respondents believe this will increase in

importance

• Making appropriate health and wellness choices

• Creativity/innovation• 73.6% of employer respondents project this skill to increase

in importance• Currently 54.2% of employers say new hires with high school

diploma are deficient in this skill

Source: http://www.p21.org/documents/key_findings_joint.pdf Are They Really Ready to Work?

COMMON COREENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

• Interpersonal Speaking

• Vocabulary• Grammar• Language Functions

• Presentational Writing

• Interpretive Reading

Reading Writing

Speaking/

Listening

Language

Reading(Interpretive

Reading)

Key Ideas & Details

Craft & Structure

Integration of

Knowledge & Ideas

Text Complexity

Fiction Informational Texts

Foundational Skills

Writing(Presentational

Writing)

Text Types and

Purposes

Production and

Distribution of Writing

Research to Build

and Present

Knowledge

Range of Writing

Speaking & Listening

(Interpersonal Speaking & Presentational

Speaking)

Comprehension and

Collaboration

Presentation of Knowledge and

Ideas

Language(Grammar, Vocabulary,

Language Functions)

Conventions of

Language

Structure of

Language

Vocabulary

FIND THE STANDARD• Pair up with your curriculum writing partner

• 1 Anchor Standard in yellow

• K-12 grade level standard in white

1. Put the standards in K-12 order

2. Check your work with the Blue Estándares

3. Discuss where you think the clusters would be for1. Spanish 1a2. Spanish 1b3. Spanish 24. Spanish 3

SHIFT IN THINKINGPrevious State ELA Standards Common Core State Standards

Focus on literature Focus on more non-fiction

Texts that don’t prepare students for complexity of college/career texts

Appropriately complex texts

Reading to report/summarize content

Reading to understand deeper meaning of what authors want to convey

English teacher solely responsible for teaching literacy

Literacy as part of science, social studies/history, and technical subjects (6-12)

Primarily writing personal narratives

Writing more to inform or argue using evidence

Most emphasis on content-specific vocabulary

Academic vocabulary given emphasis

IN THE 20TH CENTURYWORLD LANGUAGES

• Students learned about the language• Teacher-centered class• Focused on isolated skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing)• Coverage of a textbook•Using the textbook as the curriculum• Emphasis on teacher as presenter/lecturer• Isolated cultural “factoids”

IN THE 21ST CENTURYWORLD LANGUAGES

• Students learn to use the language• Active Students• Focus on the three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational• Backward design focusing on the end goal• Use of thematic units and authentic resources• Emphasis on learner as “doer” and “creator”• Emphasis on the relationship among the perspectives, practices , and products of the cultures http://p21.org/storage/documents/Skills%20Map/

p21_worldlanguagesmap.pd

ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES INTERPRETIVE MODE

Predicted Answer Found in Article?

Key words

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

1. Si / No2. Si / No3.Si / No 4. Si / No5.Si / No

http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2013/09/24/el-trabajo-infantil-afecta-a-mas-de-160-millones-de-ninos-en-el-mundo/

Why do children NOT go to school around the

world?

IDENTIFY KEY DETAILSEvidence For Evidence Against

Young people don’t attend school because of peer pressure

Parents do not encourage young people to go to school

Young people need to support their family by going to work

• Watch video of Davita Alston “Hearing Authentic Voices”

• John Pedini

• Learner.org

ROAD MAP OF PRIORITIES

High Priority

• Common Assessments -

• Pacing Guide with Communication Targets and ACTFL Standards & Common Core Integration

Medium Priority

• Vocabulary practice & flashcards

• Notebook games

• Supports & extensions

What do you think that we

need?