World Language Learning Community
January 10, 2011
TBAISD Administration Building – Leelanau Room
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Meeting Notes
Present: Bridget Bailey-Elk Rapids MS, Thomas Baker-Kingsley HS, Don Cole – Bellaire, Leda Daykin-Alba, Lisa Dohm-TCAPS, Jeri Dorr-Mancelona, Mary Kuhlman-Kalkaska, Bryn Lynch-TCAPS, Jonathan Nelson-Glen Lake, Kristine Simpson-Forest Area, Maria Suomi-Kingsley MS/HS, Janna Blakely-TBAISD
Bienvenue! Willkommen! Bienvenido!
Lisa Dohm - MIWLA meeting information
Lisa shared information she learned from attending the MIWLA meeting. Discussed and shared ideas about IEP’s, PLPs, students testing out of language level classes, personal curriculum. Deb Smith, TBAISD’s Special Education Curriculum Director and Transition Director spoke with the group and clarified the law concerning with these above topics.
The group shared their respective districts’ language offerings:
Glen Lake: K-12 through AP languages offered. Spanish in HS. MS is optional exploratory classes. Elementary Spanish is offered 30 minutes per week.
Bellaire: Spanish is offered K-12. MS taught by semester. Elem. 2 times per week for 25 minutes. Online German and French is an option to students. Levels 1-2-3 Spanish offered.
Kalkaska: Spanish is offered in HS. No online classes offered. No discussion taking place about offering world language in elementary or MS.
Forest Area: In MS, one semester of Spanish is required in 7 and 8 grades each. Spanish 1 and 2 is offered in HS.
Mancelona: MS has 9 week rotation Spanish 5/6 & 7/8. Spanish 1 and 2 offered in HS. Online options are available.
TCAPS: Montessori program has 1-6 grades Spanish – gave up Art to have language. TCAPS, in conjunction with the Tribe, offers Anishinaabek in MS. Expressions at Old Mission PTO pays – Spanish. WMS has Spanish Passport. EMS has conversational Spanish. Spanish, French, and German 1 - starts in 7th grade through 12. Online classes are discouraged.
Elk Rapids: Spanish is offered once per week using Rosetta Stone in elementary. MS Spanish in 6-7-8 grades every third day for 52 minutes. District compromised the Art program to provide Spanish. Level 1 and 2 Spanish is offered in HS.
Kingsley: German and Spanish 1-2-3 offered in HS. Online courses (MVU and BYU) approved on case by case basis.
Alba: K-5 Spanish offered 45 minutes or 90 minutes per week, depending on the special. HS offers 180 minutes of Spanish per week.
Continue Level 1 Assessment Development - Lisa Dohm and Bryn Lynch
· Tried to untangle the Roman numeral mess of the Spanish I Common Assessment.
· Tried to remember exactly what we wanted for the vocabulary part.
· Culture - so many components in the Spanish-speaking world. This is a part that we each might want to tweak in our own way since we tend to emphasize what we know best and are most comfortable with.
· Lisa pointed out that before students do something as an assessment piece they need to have practiced these pieces in less formal/stressful times.
· TCAPS uses the National Spanish Exam as a basis for a lot of our information/ideas for what we based our exam on.
· Added the speaking rubric to the assessment
· What is the objective for this writing? A certain number of sentences, a certain number of vocabulary words, or do we want to keep it broader? Mary Kuhlman suggested that we find several other pictures to give us and our students more options. Maybe several different pictures of different activities at the beach so students can choose.
· What are they capable of doing as Level 1 students?
· Lisa would like to see if we could collect the results and have it all in one spot so we can keep track of the scores. Math does this already? Is there some sort of TBA instrument we could use?
Level 1 assessment has been uploaded to our WLLC SharePoint homepage in the “Common Assessment” folder located in the Shared Documents section.
Level 2 Common Assessment - We are almost finished with Spanish 2 writing, but will need to work on speaking, listening, and reading during our May meeting.
Spanish 2 common themes:
reflexives
daily activities (household stuff0
personal care
shopping (clothing)
restaurant
travel
doctor/injuries
city/laces
consejos
directions, getting around town(more specific vocabulary around town)
asking for/giving advice
object pronouns
comparisons and superlatives
medical
Grammar
Preterite/imperfect
Reflexivos
Future/conditional
(in)formal commands +/ -
double objects
comparisons/superlatives
Writing Assessment:
past tense
10 complete sentences
Next Steps: Complete Level 2 Assessments
Auf Wiedersehen, Au revoir, Adiós
Note taker: Janna Blakely and Bryn Lynch
PLEASE REMEMBER:
Next meeting: May 4, 2011 – TBAISD Administration Building Leelanau Room – 9:00am to 3:00pm
Substitute reimbursement: Please submit invoices to TBAISD, Attn: Janna Blakely
One teacher per building, $100 limit