Student work and the Common Core State Standards and 21st Century Skills
Instruction in my world language classes is purposefully crafted to build language proficiency and cultural understanding. In addition, the immersion environment combined with my students' extensive work with numerous technology tools, a wide variety of authentic documents and diverse global partners beginning in year 1 provides compelling evidence of targeted instructional design that builds my students' proficiency in Common Core State Standards (specifically, the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards, or "CCRA") and the 21st Century Skills as outlined in the ACTFL 21st Century Skills Map (in which my "Student-Created Museum" is a featured sample activity on page 11, in the category of "Creativity and Innovation").
Below are charts outlining how the lessons featured in Work Samples 1-5 and the video lessons provide students with specific practice in the CCRA standards of Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening. Note that in the CCRA charts, the numbers refer to the specific standards within each category of the CCRA (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking). The CCRA standard for "Language" is not included because, as ACTFL points out in the Common Core Crosswalk, all activities in world language classes develop language.
Beneath those charts are additional charts demonstrating how the lessons featured in Work Samples 1-5 and the video lessons specifically develop students' capacities in the 21st Century Skills and overarching themes.
Instruction in my world language classes is purposefully crafted to build language proficiency and cultural understanding. In addition, the immersion environment combined with my students' extensive work with numerous technology tools, a wide variety of authentic documents and diverse global partners beginning in year 1 provides compelling evidence of targeted instructional design that builds my students' proficiency in Common Core State Standards (specifically, the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards, or "CCRA") and the 21st Century Skills as outlined in the ACTFL 21st Century Skills Map (in which my "Student-Created Museum" is a featured sample activity on page 11, in the category of "Creativity and Innovation").
Below are charts outlining how the lessons featured in Work Samples 1-5 and the video lessons provide students with specific practice in the CCRA standards of Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening. Note that in the CCRA charts, the numbers refer to the specific standards within each category of the CCRA (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking). The CCRA standard for "Language" is not included because, as ACTFL points out in the Common Core Crosswalk, all activities in world language classes develop language.
Beneath those charts are additional charts demonstrating how the lessons featured in Work Samples 1-5 and the video lessons specifically develop students' capacities in the 21st Century Skills and overarching themes.
Alignment to the CCRA of the Common Core State Standards
Note that these alignment charts are for the entire lesson sequence from which the portfolio student work samples were pulled, not just the samples themselves.
Note that these alignment charts are for the entire lesson sequence from which the portfolio student work samples were pulled, not just the samples themselves.
CCRA alignment for the Student Work Samples
CCRA alignment for the Video lesson and bonus videos
Alignment of Portfolio items to the 21st Century skills
Alignment to the overarching themes (as outlined by P21) Note that this alignment is for the entire lesson sequences from which the portfolio student work samples and videos were pulled, not just the samples themselves.
Alignment to the 21st Century skills sets (as outlined by P21) Note that this alignment is for the entire lesson sequence from which the portfolio student work samples were pulled, not just the samples themselves.