BVSD+Oct.+2016

** 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) Using focusing lenses to design learning
 * 3) Applying the rigor and relevance framework
 * 4) Using a framework to create thematic units and a learning progression
 * 5) Exploring and designing performance assessments
 * 6) Bringing it all together
 * 7) 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, learning progressions and assessments.

Videos from today

 * Lead with Languages video-ACTFL promotion video || # Lead with Languages ||
 * World Readiness Standards || # World Readiness Standards ||
 * Core Practice for Effective Langauge Learning || # Core Practice Information ACTFL
 * 1) Core Practices for Effective Language Learning ||

Resources to learn more

 * Using the three modes in instruction and assessment video-Tell Project || good examples and ideas ||
 * The three modes-assessment and perspective-Webinar-Tell Project || more focus on how-to's for three modes ||
 * Using the target language and providing comprehensible input-Tell project || overview ||
 * Using the target language and CI-Reflection for teacher || Feedback form ||
 * Empowering students to use the target language-Growth Mindset-Tell Project || Article ||
 * Empowering Student to Use the Target Language - Classroom Vignette-Tell project || video ||
 * Using sentence starters and sentence frames || Article ||

Core Practices for Effective Language Learning
Learn more-videoCore Practices for Effective Language Leaning Preview Video



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[|ACTFL Position Statement on Global Competence]:
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The ability to communicate with respect and cultural understanding in more than one language is an essential element of global competence.* This competence is developed and demonstrated by investigating the world, recognizing and weighing perspectives, acquiring and applying disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, communicating ideas, and taking action. Global competence is fundamental to the experience of learning languages whether in classrooms, through virtual connections, or via everyday experiences. Language learning contributes an important means to communicate and interact in order to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world. This interaction develops the disposition to explore the perspectives behind the products and practices of a culture and to value such intercultural experiences.

Global competence is vital to successful interactions among diverse groups of people locally, nationally, and internationally. This diversity continues to grow as people move from city to city and country to country. The need to communicate with someone of a different language or culture may arise at any time; knowing more than one language prepares one to know how, when, and why to say what to whom.
 * The Need for Global Competence:**


 * Need in the Global Economy**: Import and export data demonstrate the interconnectedness of the economies of countries across the globe; jobs increasingly depend on collaborating with clients/customers who speak other languages and contribute diverse perspectives and ideas; employers identify cultural knowledge and understanding plus communication skills in more than one language as increasingly important in their hiring.


 * Need in Diplomacy/Defense**: The military identifies its mission balanced between defense/peace-keeping around the world and building connections with citizens in areas facing unrest or war; training of service personnel includes cultural sensitivity, understanding of diverse perspectives, and strategies for communicating with local populations speaking other languages.


 * Need in Global Problem-solving**: Issues related to the environment, health, and innovation require collaboration across borders; creative solutions are more likely to occur when knowledge and unique perspectives and insights are shared.


 * Need in Diverse Communities**: Opportunities to interact with people who speak other languages and who have different cultural practices, products, and perspectives are increasing in each community; heritage communities are supported when their languages and cultures are valued rather than eliminated.


 * Need in Personal Growth and Development**: Global competence – the ability to interact and communicate with people from other cultures – opens doors to new relationships, knowledge, and experiences.

G**lobal competence is the ability to:**
 * Describing Global Competence:**
 * 1) Communicate in the language of the people with whom one is interacting.
 * 2) Interact with awareness, sensitivity, empathy, and knowledge of the perspectives of others.
 * 3) Withhold judgment, examining one’s own perspectives as similar to or different from the perspectives of people with whom one is interacting.
 * 4) Be alert to cultural differences in situations outside of one’s culture, including noticing cues indicating miscommunication or causing an inappropriate action or response in a situation.
 * 5) Act respectfully according to what is appropriate in the culture and the situation where everyone is not of the same culture or language background, including gestures, expressions, and behaviors.
 * 6) Increase knowledge about the products, practices, and perspectives of other cultures.


 * Means to Achieve Global Competence**:

Individuals will follow different pathways to reach global competence. Developing global competence is a process that needs to be embedded in learning experiences in languages and all subject areas from prekindergarten through postsecondary. Identified by the various initiatives around this common goal, effective practices include the following actions:
 * 1) Recognize the multiplicity of factors that influence who people are and how they communicate.
 * 2) Investigate and explain cultural differences as well as similarities, looking beneath the surface of stereotypes.
 * 3) Examine events through the lens of media from different countries and cultures.
 * 4) Collaborate to share ideas, discuss topics of common interest, and solve mutual problems.
 * 5) Reflect on one’s personal experiences across cultures to evaluate personal feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and reactions.


 * Global competence is a critical component of education in the 21st century, as reflected in national initiatives focused on literacy and STEM at the PK-12 level and included in the essential learning outcomes of the Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) program of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

Approved by the ACTFL Board of Directors-August 2014.

National Links
for Learning Languages || How are our standards refreshed to meet the perspectives of the 21st century? || # [|World-ReadinessStandardsforLearningLanguages.pdf] > || Describes what language learners can do regardless of how the language was acquired. || # [|ACTFL Prof. Guidelines 2012 update with samples] || States what learners can do specific to each communication mode and level of proficiency. || # > [|NCSSFL ACTFL Can-Do_Statements.pdf] || Describes what language learners can do based on instruction in an instructional setting. || # ||   || Thanks to Jacque VanHouton and Ruta Couet, NCSSFL || # Novice: > ||  ||
 * 1. National World Language Standards refreshed 2014-World-Readiness Standards
 * 1) ACTFL Position Statement:
 * 2. ACTFL 21st century skills map || What are 21st century skills defined through the eyes of a world languages context? || # [[file:tonitheisen/ACTFL 2011 P-21 worldlanguages skills map.pdf|ACTFL 2011 P-21 worldlanguages skills map.pdf]] ||
 * 3. ACTFL Proficiency guidelines || What are the performance levels?
 * 4. NSCCFL-ACTFL "can do" statements || What can students do?
 * 5. ACTFL performance descriptors || How do I explain performance levels to my students?
 * 6. Interculturality "can-do" statements || How do embed 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]]
 * 7. 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]] ||   ||
 * 8. Bloom's taxonomy charts with questions and activities ||  || # [[file:tonitheisen/Bloom's taxonomy chart.pdf|Bloom's taxonomy chart.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 9. Rigor and Relevance Framework || How can we make instruction more rigorous and relevant? || # Rigor and relevance framework ||  ||
 * 10. 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]] ||  ||
 * 11. Thompson School District world languages site || How can I see others' work to help me with mine? || # TSD WL Wikispace with thematic units, rubrics etc. ||

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:
 * ACTFL The Keys to Planning for Learning || # Sample curriculum units and lesson plans || I can examine a variety of assessments as resources. ||
 * Kansas assessments || # Samples assessments and benchmarks || I can examine a variety of assessments as resources. ||

== 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]] ||

=World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages video=


 * [[image:tsdwlstandards/world readiness standards.png width="708" height="946" link="@http://www.actfl.org/publications/all/world-readiness-standards-learning-languages"]] ||
 * world readiness standards.png ||


 * [[image:tonitheisen/pyramid chart.png width="706" height="1072" link="@http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/guidelines/ACTFLProficiencyLevels11x17withFunctions.pdf"]] ||
 * pyramid chart.png ||




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

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

Words and actions-Social action
 * [[image:tonitheisen/wordsandactions300.jpg link="http://isgweb.actfl.org/ISGWeb/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=WORDS_ACTIONS"]] ||
 * wordsandactions300.jpg ||

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

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 || [] ||

===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:


 * 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

//Approved by the ACTFL Board of Directors-November 2015 //