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90% Target Language - Relevance
Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language
90% Target Language - Relevance
Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language

Relevant Essential Questions and Themes engage learners in making meaning - inspiring them to communicate.

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Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language
What the Queen of Soul Can Teach Us about Performance
Assessment
What the Queen of Soul Can Teach Us about Performance
Assessment

Capturing Performance is harder than you think.

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Assessment
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Improving Accuracy for Novice and Intermediate Students
Jan 15
Improving Accuracy for Novice and Intermediate Students

Join us for a training on Improving Accuracy both syntax and word precision.

Proficency and Spontaneous Speaking
Nov 27
Proficency and Spontaneous Speaking

Calibrate performances against proficiency levels and collaborate to create a bank of routines for Spontaneous Speaking

Presentation - Teacher Leadership In and Out of the Classroom
Oct 13
Presentation - Teacher Leadership In and Out of the Classroom

Join us for a presentation on Teacher Leadership at the WAFLT 2018 conference

Presentation - Interactive Understanding 60,000 Foot View
Oct 12
Presentation - Interactive Understanding 60,000 Foot View

Join us at the COFLT-WALFT Conference 2018 for 60,000 foot overview of Interactive Understanding.

Interactive Understanding Hack-a-thon
Sep 18
Interactive Understanding Hack-a-thon

Co-sponsored by WAFLT and the Bellevue School District this workshop on Interactive Understanding takes you from concept to classroom in one day.

Interactive Understanding Hack-a-thon
Aug 16
Interactive Understanding Hack-a-thon

WAFLT Sponsored Workshop on Interactive Understanding.

Curriculum Collaboration - French
Jun 6
Curriculum Collaboration - French

Interested in French 2 Curriculum? Join us as we work in Can Do Statements for each unit. We are also developing student voice performance tasks for each unit. We use the Bien Dit textbook, but use the topic as a starting place.

Curriculum Collaboration - Spanish 2
May 24
Curriculum Collaboration - Spanish 2

Join us as we work on Spanish 2 Curriculum

Curriculum Collaboration - French
May 21
Curriculum Collaboration - French

Interested in French 2 Curriculum? Join us as we work in Can Do Statements for each unit. We are also developing student voice performance tasks for each unit. We use the Bien Dit textbook, but use the topic as a starting place.

Curriculum Collaboration - French 2
May 2
Curriculum Collaboration - French 2

Join us to work on French 2 Curriculum.

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Take our 4 Question Survey
Proficiency
Take our 4 Question Survey
Proficiency

The survey are live at Rocket Language, but you can take it directly  Over the next three months we will be building the online modules. Your perspective will help us improve the modules. Our target is to finish the modules by June.

Proficiency
90% Target Language - Relevance
Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language
90% Target Language - Relevance
Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language

Relevant Essential Questions and Themes engage learners in making meaning - inspiring them to communicate.

Culturally responsive teaching, 90% Target Language
What the Queen of Soul Can Teach Us about Performance
Assessment
What the Queen of Soul Can Teach Us about Performance
Assessment

Capturing Performance is harder than you think.

Assessment
Teacher Leadership in and out of the Classroom
Leadership
Teacher Leadership in and out of the Classroom
Leadership

Based on a presentation at the 2018 WAFLT Conference. We explore 3 steps an emerging leader can take to grow into their role.

Leadership
Interactive Understanding 60,000 Foot View
Comprehensible Input, Interactive Understanding
Interactive Understanding 60,000 Foot View
Comprehensible Input, Interactive Understanding

Handouts from Interactive Understanding Overview at WAFLT 2018

Comprehensible Input, Interactive Understanding
Single Point Rubrics
Proficiency, Assessment
Single Point Rubrics
Proficiency, Assessment

Let’s clear the clutter with Single Point Rubrics

Proficiency, Assessment
The Good and Bad of Analytic Rubrics
Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking
The Good and Bad of Analytic Rubrics
Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking

The good and bad of Analytic Rubrics

Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking
To Rubric or not to Rubric - Part 1
Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking
To Rubric or not to Rubric - Part 1
Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking

Like most teachers, I have a love/hate relationship with rubrics…..

Proficiency, Interpersonal Speaking
Metrics for Interpersonal Speaking Rubrics
Proficiency, Assessment
Metrics for Interpersonal Speaking Rubrics
Proficiency, Assessment

Survey of the metrics in the rubrics published by our professional organization. Now we need your expertise to evaluate the metrics based on your classroom experience.

Proficiency, Assessment
Capturing Performance - Design Constraints
Profi
Capturing Performance - Design Constraints
Profi

Day one of our crowd-sourcing we focus on the constraints and challenges of even trying to measure performance.

Profi