1. Debra Block, Ph.D Teachers 21
CULTURE AND CONTEXT
TEACHING WORLD LANGUAGES
STOUGHTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Debra Block, Ph.D
Teachers 21

2. AGENDA Ice Breaker The Common Core and World Languages
In and Out: Skill Development
Pass the Baton: The Dynamic Nature of Language
Some Ways to Connect, 21st Century Style
Applying What We’ve Done

3. MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF WORLD LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
Category A
Category B
Category C

4. Value of Cooperative Learning
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
CHECKS FOR UNDERSTANDING
DIFFERENTIATION

5. GAPS AND OVERLAPS: SKILL ASSESSMENT

6. Standards for Speaking and Listening in Grades 7-12
VERTICAL (Standards 1-6)
Pair –Share
What aspects of reading are covered?
THREE LITTLE WORDS-Capture the Essence of Each Standard

7. Standards for Speaking and Listening in Grades 7-12
HORIZONTAL (Grades 7-12)
Each group takes one of the standards.
How does it change from Grades 7 to 12?
Using a highlighter, note shifts in language as skill progresses from grade to grade.
Present to Full Group

8. CONNECT LITERACY STANDARDS TO WORLD LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
Each group takes one of the standards.
HOW DOES IT CONNECT TO WORLD LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION??

9. PASS THE BATON
Think about how this ‘entity’ might be used at the different levels of Foreign language instruction. What elements are appropriate for each? What expectations do you have about the understanding and knowledge of your students as they enter the next level of education? What can the next level’s teachers expect to inherit from you?
Suggest a lesson ‘path’ for this object. Place it in a Level One Course, an Intermediate Level and an Advanced Level. How might it be used to teach the cultural context of language in each of the 3 levels? Be prepared to present your lesson path to the other groups.

10. Pass the Baton: Sources
Language: Chinese
and
or Shanghai,
French: La Marseillaise: Words, Music and Images
Spanish: Map of North and South America,
Latin: Map of the Roman Empire, Ortelius, c. 1609

11. S.A.M.R.

12. SAMR in ACTION Think of a task. How might you move it from
Think of a task.
How might you move it from
S to A to M to R???

13. TPACK CONTENT: The What PEDAGOGY: The How TECHNOLOGY:
The Means (partner)
that will
best connect the
What and the How

14. TPACK Again, think of work you do with your students.
Again, think of work you do with your students.
How might you apply TPACK to it?

15. A Useful
Visual

16. Please do the Exit Ticket
(on the website page...
password: go knights