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GET REAL:

GET REAL:. Performance Assessments f or the Real World.

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GET REAL:

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  1. GET REAL: Performance Assessments for the Real World “Ensuring you attract and retain top talent for a globally competitive company requires an investment in developing cultural awareness and language skills in your current workforce. Hiring managers must possess the skills necessary to recognize and assess this vital combination of global abilities while each day creating and maintaining an open and inclusive environment that is sensitive to a multi-lingual workforce.” -- Tony Padilla • HR LEADER FOR THE 767 PROGRAM, BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES

  2. Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org

  3. National Foreign Language Framework

  4. Don’t you wish all of your students were this motivated to learn another language?

  5. http://www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/teacherhut/teachley/index.html

  6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

  7. “All memories and experiences have one thing in common: emotion. Emotions drive attention and create relevance.“ Cementing these experiences is the best use of long-term memory.

  8. Learning through experiences • Reading • Hearing words • Looking at pictures • Watching a movie • Looking at pictures • Watching a demonstration • Seeing it done (on location) • Participating in a discussion • Giving a talk • Doing a thematic presentation • Simulating the real experience • Doing the real thing

  9. Bloom’s Taxonomy

  10. REAL LIFE: Vocabulary Grammar 3 Modes

  11. REAL ACTIVITIES: NOT – what they know, but rather . . . What they CAN DO!

  12. Formative Assessment Interpretive Mode Comprehension of words, concepts, ideas, meaning of written and oral texts that are culturally authentic and produced for native speakers • • Text, poem, film, work of art, song, poem, advertisement, music video, book • • Translation is not an Interpretive mode task.

  13. Simple Formative Tasks in the Interpretive Mode -“Traffic Light” Cards – Red, Yellow, Green • White boards • Stand up if… • Finger Signaling • Ripped Vocabulary

  14. Intermediate Formative Tasks in the Interpretive Mode • Fill in graphs, charts, forms, graphic organizers • Follow a route on a map from oral/written directions • Check-off items in a list • Draw what is described • Put events from a story in logical order • Listen for the gist—identify main idea • Create questions from info in the piece • Compose a title or headline for a reading or listening selection

  15. Authentic Task in Interpretive Mode You are an exchange student in Toledo, Spain. You need to go several places, but your maps and information are all in Spanish. Can you interpret the information? 1. Look at a train schedule and determine which train goes to Madrid (time, cost, platform) 2. Use a City Map to find your way from school to the Cathedral 3. Read a menu and decide what you will order for dinner 4. Read the ATM Directions to get Euros for your errands • • • •

  16. Presentational Mode Learners solve problems, create a new product, use the content for a real world purpose other than display for the teacher or classroom. Learners have time to rehearse, revise, rewrite, consult sources, or otherwise prepare ahead of time.

  17. Intermediate Tasks in the Presentational Mode • Demonstrate how to prepare a recipe • • Create a guide or school/town for an exchange student • • Write a letter of introduction to a school in the target country • • Develop or add content to a web page or WIKI • • Design an advertisement or classified ad • • Write a new beginning or ending of story, song • • Solve a problem, Present a solution • • Take part in a TV or radio spot • • Design a survey and present findings • • Create a Public Service Announcement (I-Movie, Photo Story) • • Write Poem, Song, Rap • • Design a Storyboard, Write and illustrate a story to present

  18. Authentic Task in Presentational Mode You are a travel agent with clients who have different interests and needs. Create an itinerary suited for each group, keeping in mind the possible interests and needs of the client. 1. A family of 5 with young children. 2. A businessperson who is a history buff. 3. Three college students with a limited budget. 4. Grandparents who love small towns, local crafts, and music. • • • •

  19. Interpersonal Mode Spontaneous exchanges that involve negotiation of meaning between people. They are unrehearsed, non scripted. Come with information the other learner does not have, creating an info gap to provide and obtain information Memorized, scripted dialogue readings, or skits are not Interpersonal Mode tasks. • •

  20. Intermediate Formative Tasks in the Interpersonal Mode • Info Gap • Socratic Circle • Pick roles from a story and have a conversation between the two characters • Blog with teens in the target culture (social netowrk, IM) • Share information on a topic • Make a purchase • Order in a restaurant • Obtain directions • Converse Face to face or by telephone (unscripted) • Debate issues • Make plans • Conduct an interview

  21. Authentic Task in Interpersonal Mode You are a Radio Talk Show Host. Part of your daily program includes an interview with a celebrity or a person who is making news. Your goal is to share what is important to this person with your listeners. Your partner plays their role. 1. Interview the President or World Leader 2. Interview a famous athlete 3. Interview a writer or actor of a popular book or film 4. Interview someone involved in a charity or social issue (Oprah, Shakira, Angelina Jolie, Nelson Mandela) • • • •

  22. How do you make the Connection from a Class to a Career? JOBS !!! Student Interest Surveys – know your students Be informed – colleges and careers / language study Real-life, authentic job tasks – get creative! Guest speakers – community members, past students Stay current, get connected, get tech-savvy

  23. 21st Century Skills need 21st Century Technology http://lwnegnatzclasses.wikispaces.com/ http://actfltech2009.wikispaces.com/

  24. It’s your turn. Let’s plan! • Think about an upcoming chapter or unit. • What’s the Vocabulary theme? • What’s the Grammar focus? • Interpretive: • What “authentic” piece can they read? • To what “authentic” piece can they listen? • Presentational: • What “real-world task” can they present orally? • What “real-world task” can they write about? • Interpersonal: (unscripted – negotiated meaning) • a. What topic can they talk about? Exchange ideas/opinions? • b. On what topic can they exchange written ideas/ emotions, etc.?

  25. Linda Egnatz Lincoln-Way North H.S. Frankfort, IL http://lwnegnatzclasses.wikispaces.com/

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