Training before writing curriculum to increase Spanish teachers' awareness of the common core ELA and Spanish Language Arts standards

1. SPANISH
CURRICULUM
WRITING TEAM
November 26th, 2013

2. Purpose:
Collaborate to
create a Road Map
Spanish Curriculum

3. Collaborate to create a Road
Map Spanish Curriculum
7:30-8:00 Reconnecting
8:00-10:00 Standards Training
10:00-10:30 Deliverable Rates &
Sharepoint Training
10:30-11:00 Work on Deliverables
11:00-12:00 Lunch
12:00-12:30 Common Assessments
12:30- 3:50 Work on Deliverables
3:50-4:00 Craft Summary Statement to
share with Spanish teachers

4. CHALLENGES AND
SUCCESSES
• Tell who you are
• One of this year’s challenges
• One of this year’s successes

5. • 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
OBJECTIVE

6. 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?

8. COMMON CORE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
•Interpretive
Reading
•Presentational
Writing
Reading
Language
•Vocabulary
•Grammar
•Language
Functions
Writing
Speaking/
Listening
•Interpersonal
Speaking

9. Reading
(Interpretive
Reading)
Fiction
Informational
Texts
Foundational
Skills
Key Ideas &
Details
Craft &
Structure
Integration of
Knowledge &
Ideas
Text
Complexity

10. Writing
(Presentational
Writing)
Text Types
and
Purposes
Production
and
Distribution
of Writing
Research to
Build and
Present
Knowledge
Range of
Writing

11. Speaking &
Listening
(Interpersonal Speaking
& Presentational
Speaking)
Comprehension
and
Collaboration
Presentation of
Knowledge and
Ideas

12. Language
(Grammar, Vocabul
ary, Language
Functions)
Conventions
of
Language
Vocabulary
Structure of
Language

13. 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 for
1.
2.
3.
4.
Spanish 1a
Spanish 1b
Spanish 2
Spanish 3

14. SHIFT IN THINKING
Previous 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
Primarily writing personal
narratives
Most emphasis on contentspecific vocabulary
Literacy as part of science, social studies/history,
and technical subjects (6-12)
Writing more to inform or argue using evidence
Academic vocabulary given emphasis

15. IN THE 20TH CENTURY
WORLD 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”

16. IN THE 21ST CENTURY
WORLD 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
http://p21.org/storage/documents/Skills%20Map/
p21_worldlanguagesmap.pd
cultures

17. Why do children NOT go
to school around the
world?
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
INTERPRETIVE MODE
Predicted Answer
Found in Article? Key words
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1. Si / No
2. Si / No
3.Si / No
4. Si / No
5.Si / No
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2013/09/24/el-trabajo-infantilafecta-a-mas-de-160-millones-de-ninos-en-el-mundo/

18. IDENTIFY KEY DETAILS
Evidence 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

19. • Watch video of Davita Alston “Hearing Authentic
Voices”
• John Pedini
• Learner.org

20. ROAD MAP OF
PRIORITIES
High Priority
• Common Assessments • Pacing Guide with Communication Targets and ACTFL
Standards & Common Core Integration
What do you
Vocabulary practice & flashcards think that we
need?
Notebook games
Medium Priority
•
•
• Supports & extensions