LFLTA+Jan.+15-16,+2016

LFLTA 2016 Conference
= Keynote Title: Activating Chaos to Invigorate Learning =

How has teaching changed in this new century? But more importantly how has learning changed? How is each one of us a teacher, a mentor, a coach and a learner in the classroom? How are our students also learners, mentors, coaches and teachers? How have we critically reevaluated what we teach, what students learn and which skills and content are the most important?

** Workshop Abstract:Activating Communication: Designing Learning and Creating Meaningful Assessments **
Our 21st century learners need a multi-sensory learning environment designed around authentic learning experiences that encourage collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. How can we use focusing lenses to guide thinking when creating relevant instruction that is more meaningful, rigorous and engaging? How can focusing lenses be used to shape the instruction of a thematic unit? How can technology encourage learners to critically think of solutions to real-world global issues in innovative ways? And finally how can we assess our students so they can demonstrate their learning. During this workshop participants will explore these questions and experience learning activities that promote deeper, richer thinking that can enhance communication in all three modes.

Toni Theisen Thompson School District Loveland, Colorado 80538 **Connect with me -** Toni Theisen: email Connect with me on Twitter: [|tonitheisen] Facebook
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Agenda

 * 1) Introduction, goals and learner targets
 * 2) Let's play
 * 3) Exploring and using a variety of documents to create an advocacy statement
 * 4) Exploring and using "Can-do" documents
 * 5) Exploring interculturality
 * 6) Using focusing lenses to design learning
 * 7) Applying the rigor and relevance framework
 * 8) Creating thematic units
 * 9) Exploring and designing performance assessments
 * 10) Exploring the IPA-integrated performance assessment
 * 11) Bringing it all together
 * 12) Next steps

Learner Targets

 * 1) I can use a variety documents to think differently about learning and designing instruction.
 * 2) l can use the concept of focusing lenses as a way to shape instruction at a deeper level.
 * 3) I can use the rigorous and relevant framework to move towards deeper learning..
 * 4) I can apply "I can" statements as learner targets in my instruction.
 * 5) I can create thematic units and assessments.

Handouts and PowerPoints
PowerPoint: Handout:
 * Keynote **

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 * Workshop **

Take action and participate

 * Remind
 * Padlet
 * Four corners speaking and writing activity
 * Keep Calm sign maker site
 * Kahoot Blended game: (Special note-Kahoot game to use)
 * Meme maker

Helpful Videos

 * Lead with Languages video-ACTFL promotion video || # Lead with Languages ||
 * World Readiness Standards Review-ACTFL || # World Readiness Standards Review ||
 * Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud- Hole in the Wall video || # Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud:Hole Wall Whole Video
 * 1) Sugata Mitra:Build a School in the Cloud-Hole in the WallExcerpts ||
 * Are we prepared for the Jobs of the future? || # Are we prepared for the jobs of the future? ||
 * Infographic for language learner video || # Language Learner video ||

Helpful Articles

 * Education is not the answer-Heather MCGowan ||
 * America's Lacking Language Skills-Amelia Friedman ||
 * What you know is worth nothing-Here's how to fix it-Laurence Van Elegem ||

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Important documents for WL teachers
for Learning Languages || How are our standards refreshed to meet the perspectives of the 21st century? || # [|World-ReadinessStandardsforLearningLanguages.pdf] ||
 * 1. National World Language Standards refreshed 2014-World-Readiness Standards
 * 2. Languages as a Core Component of Education for All Students - Advocacy statement

Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness and Documenting Student Growth Position-ACTFL Position Statement 2015 || How can we speak with a United voice for WL learning?

How do we CONTRIBUTE to the overall growth of our learners? || # ACTFL Position Statement: Language as a Core Component Thanks to Jacque VanHouton and Ruta Couet, NCSSFL || # Novice: See where the biggest concentration of these jobs are and how your state stacks up. || How Global are You?
 * 1) [[file:tsdwlstandards/ACTFL Position Statement -Final - Languages as Core - May 2013.pdf|ACTFL Position Statement -Final - Languages as Core - May 2013.pdf]]
 * 2) ACTFL Position Statement-Demonstrating Education Effectiveness ||
 * 3. ACTFL Global Competency Position Statement || How do we explain culture and its need/ || # ACTFL Reaching Global Competence Position Statement information
 * 1) Reaching Global Competence Position Statement:[[file:tonitheisen/GlobalCompetencePositionStatement0814(1).pdf|GlobalCompetencePositionStatement0814(1).pdf]] ||
 * 4. Interculturality "can-do" statements || How do use culture?
 * 1) Intermediate:[[file:tonitheisen/intermediate_intercultural_can_dos-1.docx|intermediate_intercultural_can_dos-1.docx]]
 * 2) Advanced:[[file:tonitheisen/Advanced interculturality Can-Do_Culture_Advanced_MCwebsite-1.docx|Advanced interculturality Can-Do_Culture_Advanced_MCwebsite-1.docx]] ||
 * 5.Mapping the Nation-Asia Society-International Trade

One is five jobs is tied to international trade. || # International trade and Louisiana Describes what language learners can do regardless of how the language was acquired. || # ACTFL Prof. Guidelines 2012 update with samples
 * 1) Mapping the Nation: See how international your state is. ||
 * 6. ACTFL 21st century skills map || What are 21st century skills defined through the eyes of a world languages context? || # ACTFL 21st century skills map Wikispace
 * 1) More ways to see the ACTFL 21st century skills map
 * 2) ACTFL 21st Century Skills maps on Pinterest
 * 3) [[file:tonitheisen/ACTFL 2011 P-21 worldlanguages skills map.pdf|ACTFL 2011 P-21 worldlanguages skills map.pdf]] ||
 * 7. ACTFL Proficiency guidelines || What are the proficiency levels?
 * 1) English Novice example ||
 * 8.
 * ACTFL Proficiency Pyramid
 * Oral proficiency levels in the workplace chart || What are the proficiency levels?

What levels of proficiency for what jobs? || # ACTFL Proficiency Pyramid chart Describes what language learners can do based on instruction in an instructional setting? || # States what learners can do specific to each communication mode and level of proficiency. || # > [|NCSSFL ACTFL Can-Do_Statements.pdf] ||
 * 1) Oral proficiency levels in the workplace chart
 * 2) Mapping the Nation: See how international your state is. ||
 * 9. ACTFL performance descriptors || How do I explain performance levels to my students?
 * 1) ACTFL Performance Descriptors information ||
 * 10. NSCCFL-ACTFL "can do" statements || What can students do?
 * 11. ACTFL Crosswalk aligning document with the Common Core || What are the connection between the WL standards and common core? || # [[file:vhl2013/ACTFLCrosswalkFinalAligningCCSSLanguageStandards.pdf|ACTFLCrosswalkFinalAligningCCSSLanguageStandards.pdf ]][|ACTFLCrosswalkFinalAligningCCSSLanguageStandards.pdf]
 * 1) Common Core ELA Standards:[[file:tonitheisen/CCR_Anchor_Standards.pdf|CCR_Anchor_Standards.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 12. Bloom's taxonomy charts with questions and activities ||  || # Bloom's taxonomy chart:[[file:tonitheisen/Bloom's taxonomy chart.pdf|Bloom's taxonomy chart.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 13. Rigor and Relevance Framework || How can we make instruction more rigorous and relevant? || # Rigor and relevance framework: [] ||  ||
 * 14. AP/IB Comparison chart || How can we make instruction more rigorous and relevant with attention to culture? || # AP/IB Comparison chart:[[file:tonitheisen/AP-IB themes comparisons chart 2011.pdf|AP-IB themes comparisons chart 2011.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 15. Thompson School District world languages site || How can I see others' work to help me with mine? || # TSD WL Wikispace with thematic units, etc.
 * 1) TSD rubrics
 * 2) Goal setting and reflection sheet:[[file:Goal setting and reflection log for bubble sheets-page 2-4.docx]]
 * 3) Learner Target Bubble Sheet template:[[file:Learner Target Bubble sheet template.docx]] ||

World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages video







===ACTFL Position Statement: Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness and Documenting Student Growth Position Statement ===

The educator is the catalyst for developing learners’ language proficiency and global competence so that learners are prepared to interact and communicate successfully in the global community. Student growth and educator effectiveness are intrinsically connected. The purpose of demonstrating student growth is to show learners’ progress toward higher levels of proficiency while using language in a culturally appropriate manner. In addition, measures of student growth show the educator’s impact on student language learning, taking into consideration each learner’s engagement and motivation for learning. Such evidence will also demonstrate for multiple constituencies the value of successful language learning and teaching. Educator effectiveness and individual student growth are best measured based on frequent and multiple measures of language performance over time, demonstrated by each learner, connected with evidence specific to language learning rather than from other subject areas, and indicating growth in language performance through: //Approved by the ACTFL Board of Directors-November 2015 //
 * balanced evidence of learners’ performance across the three modes of communication (Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational)
 * performance assessments, aligned to NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements or progress indicators set by state standards
 * informal and formal assessments of language learning
 * web-based and comprehensive portfolios

Thematic Units

 * Terrill-Theisen UbD Hunger Unit

Theisen Thematic unit samples || # Terrill-Theisen Hunger Unit Wikispace "from the café unit to the hunger unit in Level 1", as well as design others. || Fairness, Respect and Dignity: Connecting to the world using global units || # Fairness, Respect and Dignity: Connecting to the world using global units -Theisen and Ousselin ACTFL presentation || I can apply concepts of social justice to a thematic unit ||
 * 1) French V AP/IB "papiers et sans papiers" unit: "Papiers et Sans Papiers"unit
 * 2) French V AP/IB L'Alimentation: Goût et Gaspillage
 * 3) French V AP/IB L'éducation
 * 4) French IV La Mode: L'économie et les politiques des vêtements
 * 5) French IV Les Problèmes sur la Planète
 * 6) French III-La santé
 * 7) French II- Paris et l'art
 * 8) Used for all levels to start the year-(activities modified for each level) Expanding our cultural perspectives || I can understand how to build a meaningful unit such as
 * Theisen-Ousselin thematic unit on girls' access to school in school:

== I want to use these resources-templates, rubrics, rubric score convertor, goal setting sheet, reflection sheet ==
 * ===UbD template to create a thematic unit===

TSD UbD units || || || ||
 * Goal Setting sheet with reflection for side 2 of bubble learning targets || [[file:tonitheisen/Goal setting and reflection log for bubble sheets-page 2.docx|Goal setting and reflection log for bubble sheets-page 2.docx]] ||
 * Sample Spanish I learner target bubble sheet-Template || [[file:tonitheisen/Spanish I Unit 5 Learner Target Bubbles 2013.doc|Spanish I Unit 5 Learner Target Bubbles 2013.doc]] ||
 * Learner target bubble sheet template
 * Presentational speaking rubrics || [[file:tonitheisen/TSD WL Presentational Speaking Rubrics 2013-2.pdf|TSD WL Presentational Speaking Rubrics 2013-2.pdf]] ||
 * Presentational writing rubric || [[file:tonitheisen/TSD WL Presentational Writing Rubrics 2013-2.pdf|TSD WL Presentational Writing Rubrics 2013-2.pdf]] ||
 * Interpersonal speaking rubric || [[file:tonitheisen/TSD WL Interpersonal Speaking Rubrics 2014.pdf|TSD WL Interpersonal Speaking Rubrics 2014.pdf]] ||
 * Interpersonal writing rubric || [[file:tonitheisen/TSD WL Interpersonal Writing Rubrics 2014.pdf|TSD WL Interpersonal Writing Rubrics 2014.pdf]] ||
 * Conversion chart for rubric grading to regular percentages || [[file:tonitheisen/TSD World Language Rubric Convertor 2014 use really.docx|TSD World Language Rubric Convertor 2014 use really.docx]] ||

===**What is an Integrated Performance Assessment? (IPA)** CobaLTT-CARLA Assessment information-What is IPA?===

Source Source 2



Toni Theisen's IPA examples Ohio IPA examples Andrea Henderson's IPA examples IPA Thematic Units Activities and Assessments-New Jersey-FLENJ
 * Thanks to all groups for sharing your work.**

Teaching Resources
need to register || How can I found some other resources for class? || [] || ||
 * TESConnect-UK-free lesson bank and resources-
 * Google searches in many languages || I can use a variety of technology tools to enhance student learning. || # [|Google sites in many countries]
 * 1) [|Search in many languages]
 * 2) [|Google maps in other languages] ||   ||
 * 1) [|Google maps in other languages] ||   ||


 * [[image:tonitheisen/keys-learning114x150.jpg]]

[|The Keys to Planning for Learning] (Curriculum design) ACTFL

Words and actions-Social action || ||

== Infographics ==

Pinterest Boards-Resources

 * Resources from Pinterest Boards

Thanks to so many teachers and organizations who have shared these pins. Very helpful for all. || How can I found some other authentic resources for class? || # French board 1
 * 1) French Board 2
 * 2) French Board 3
 * 3) French Board 4
 * 4) [|Fr. Andrea Behn Board 5]
 * 5) German board 1
 * 6) German Board 2
 * 7) German Board 3
 * 8) German Board 4
 * 9) Spanish Board 1
 * 10) Spanish Board 2
 * 11) Spanish Board 3
 * 12) Elementary Spanish Board 1
 * 13) Dual Language Spanish Boards
 * 14) Chinese Boards
 * 15) Arabic Board 1
 * 16) Arabic Board 2
 * 17) Japanese Boards
 * 18) Latin Boards
 * 19) Teaching World Languages Board
 * 20) Technology for Teachers Board

SAMR model
The Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model offers a method of seeing how computer technology might impact teaching and learning. It also shows a progression that adopters of educational technology often follow as they progress through teaching and learning with technology.



Padagogy wheel poster download:







Geography, Travel and the SAMR model-:thanks to EdOffICT



Building the Culture of an Empowered Mindset Towards Technology Innovation Chart

Integrate technology to transform instruction only in a well-designed standards-based thematic unit using backwards design**.** http://tonitheisen.wikispaces.com

__**Technology Tools**__
 * 1) Ed Puzzle
 * 2) Wideo - Digital Storytelling Web tool
 * 3) Shadow Puppet EDU - iOS Digital Storytelling tool
 * 4) Haiku Deck-presentations and digital storytelling
 * 5) Padlet
 * 6) [|Kahoot]
 * 7) [|TodaysMeet]
 * 8) [|Poll Everywhere]
 * 9) Kaywa QR code generator


 * Resources for locating images and photos **
 * 1. Tag Galaxy || [] || Search for photos from Flickr ||
 * 2. Fotopedia || [] || Collaborative photo encyclopedia ||
 * 3. Goggle Art Project || [] || 3D art tours of many museums ||
 * 4. MorgueFile || [] || Lots of free photos ||


 * Using images and information to make stories, comics, books, magazines and speaking activities **
 * 1. Wordle || [] || word clouds ||
 * 2. Tagxedo || [] || word clouds in shapes ||
 * 3. Bubblr || [] || Comic strips using Flickr photos ||
 * 4. Piclits || [] || Creative writing using images ||
 * 5. Five Card Flickr Story || [] || Create a story from 5 random pix ||
 * 6. Issuu || [] || Make a magazine or newsletter ||
 * 7. Storybird || [] || Collaborative Storytelling ||


 * Technology to enhance speaking and writing Presentational communication **
 * 1. Glogster || [] || Digital Poster ||
 * 3. FaceinHole || [] || Put your face in pix ||
 * 4. Blabberize || [] || Make picture talk ||
 * 5. Make Beliefs Comix || [] || Make comic strips ||
 * 6. Padlet || [] || Digital post it notes ||
 * Resources for using and creating videos **
 * 1. Video writing prompts || [] || Site with writing prompts and popular videos ||
 * 2. Video creating tools || [] || Series of video creating tools grouped ||
 * 3. Aminoto video || [|http://animoto.com/education#top] || “music videos” ||
 * 4. Dvolver video maker || [] || cartoon videos ||


 * Technology to record voice or use computer generated voice **
 * 1. Vocaroo || [] || Simple podcast ||
 * 3. Go Animate Edu || [] || Comic ||
 * 4. Google Voice || [] || Students call and answer ? ||
 * 5. AudioBoo || [] || Record and upload audio ||


 * Technology to enhance speaking and writing Presentational communication **
 * 1. Glogster || [] || Digital Poster ||
 * 2. FaceinHole || [] || Put your face in pix ||
 * 3. Blabberize || [] || Make picture talk ||
 * 4. Make Beliefs Comix || [] || Make comic strips ||
 * 5. Padlet || [] || Digital post it notes ||
 * Other great tools to impact learning **
 * * Wikispaces for Education || [] ||
 * * DropBox (filesharing) || [] ||
 * * Slide share (share powerpoints) || [] ||
 * * [|Scribd] (share documents and pdf’s) || [] ||
 * * Polleverywhere || [] ||
 * * Google Docs || [] ||
 * * Quizlet-create and use flashcards || [] ||
 * * Remind-a safe way to text students and parents || [] ||
 * * Kahoot-game-based blended learning || [] ||
 * * Piktochart-make your own infographic || [] ||
 * * Kawya qr code maker || [] ||