Our Learning Target I can use unit assessments and accompanying
rubric to show students have met the Kentucky Standard for World
Language Proficiency. 1. I can access the JCPS World Language
Documents and use them in my classroom. 2. I can use the JCPS World
Language Rubric to evaluate student work.
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Learning Target: I can access the JCPS World Language Documents
and use them in my classroom.
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JCPS Documents on the Web JCPS World Language Assessment
Documents http://bit.ly/qYZOVr My SkyDrive
http://bit.ly/pimsS0
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Learner Profile: Beginning Language (Year 1) 1 st Semester
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Learner Profile: Developing Language (Year 2) 1 st
Semester
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Learner Profile: Expanding Language (Year 3) 1 st Semester
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Beginning Language Presentational Writing Assessment
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Learning Target I can use the JCPS World Language Rubric to
evaluate student work.
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Beginning Language Presentational Writing Assessment
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How would you rate these? Hi. Im Liz. Im 16 years old. Im from
Antarctica. My phone is 938-4093. My birthday is April 4. Goodbye.
Hey, my name is Liz. Im 16 and my birthday is April 4. My telephone
number is 938-4093. Whats your name? Goodbye. Hi. Me Liz. 16 years.
I am from Antarctica. 938-4093. Birthday 4 april. By.
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Our Learning Target I can use unit assessments and accompanying
rubric to show students have met the Kentucky Standard for World
Language Proficiency. 1. I can access the JCPS World Language
Documents and use them in my classroom. 2. I can use the JCPS World
Language Rubric to evaluate student work.
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E-mail and Links Alice Spagnola
[email protected][email protected] JCPS World Language
Assessment Documents http://bit.ly/qYZOVr My SkyDrive
http://bit.ly/pimsS0
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What have JCPS teachers learned to do to ensure student
success? Focus on Plan to reach Assess students according to
Proficiency Targets
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What are the JCPS targets? LevelLanguage Target Beginning
Language 1 st TermNovice Mid Beginning Language 2 nd TermNovice
High Developing Language 1 st TermNovice High Developing Language 2
nd TermIntermediate Low Expanding LanguageIntermediate Mid
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Proficiency Levels
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reservedJanrito Karamazov What's proficiency?
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Proficiency is not
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Proficiency is likePizza You start eating at the point of the
pizza and theres really not much there. As you eat more there is
more and more cheese (and toppings*) for you to eat, until finally
you get to the crust and not everyone eats that. *All people dont
eat the same toppings.
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Proficiency is likePizza You start eating at the point of the
pizza and theres really not much there. When you start learning a
language theres very little you can do with the language because
theres not much there.
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Proficiency is likePizza The farther up the pizza slice you
eat, the more there is to eat. The more language you learn, the
more you can do with the language.
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Proficiency is likePizza Some people eat the crust and some
dont. Some people speak language at the superior level, and some
never achieve that (even in their native language).
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Proficiency is likePizza Some people eat a cheese pizza, others
eat pepperoni, while others eat only veggies, and thats ok. When it
comes to learning a language, not everyone learns the same
vocabulary, and thats ok, too.
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Proficiency is likePizza Novice Superior Advanced
Intermediate
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Proficiency Levels - Novice I can use words to provide basic
information. use lists of words, memorized phrases and occasionally
a short sentence when I respond to simple questions. be understood
with difficulty by someone accustomed to a language learner.
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Novice Writing Sample Because me want the learn at America. I
come to America by airplane. My granmather go to the America very
longtime. I come with my granmather and my father. I come to
America. Me see the America. America is the beautiful. But me miss
the Thailand and my mather. I learn for future. Taken from Teaching
Language in Context Workbook, Elizabeth Rieken, Heinle & Heinle
Publishers, 1993 Whats going on in the sample? Writer can use
simple simple structure and familiar vocabulary to express basis
autobiographical information Sentences are short; consist mainly of
memorized material that writer cannot use creatively yet No attempt
to connect sentences to create more cohesion Writing has a number
of inaccuracies
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Proficiency Levels - Intermediate I can use words and
expressions from topics related to daily activities and personal
environment. use simple sentences and strings/series of sentences,
mostly in present tense with occasional past and future usage when
I: participate in a conversation ask and answer questions
participate in a transactional situation (ex. ordering food, buying
clothes, getting tickets) easily be understood by someone
accustomed to a language learner.
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Intermediate Writing Sample The task was to write about what
the student would do if he or she were the parent of a student who
was in trouble at school for fighting and lying. If I am the
parentfirst thing I dont get madbecause the boys 5 or 6 years old
is not a crazy. he just want a fun. I try to find out the answer.
Why he make that story and tell him you mabe that story is wrong.
You cant do that again. Taken from Teaching Language in Context
Workbook, Elizabeth Rieken, Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1993
Whats going on in the sample? Some evidence of conscious
organization but little cohesion Writer has gone beyond memorized
material, creating sentences to form a simple narrative Present
tense not fully controlled; past tense beginning to emerge
Vocabulary is limited and many syntactic errors Native speaker used
to dealing with foreigners could get the gist