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The Core Practices: Backwards Planning Standards-Based, Student-Centered Units
#miwla16
Erin Parris-Dallia,
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools & MIWLA President 2018
Lucas Hoffman,
Sylvania Schools & OFLA President 2016-2017
https://padlet.com/parrisdallia/backwardsquestions
Day 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
Definition
Research/Why
Goal
Themes & Essential
Questions
5. Clementi/Terrill
Template
6. DONT FREAK OUT
7. IPAs
DAy 2
1. Culture Contexts
2. Language Content
3. Lessons Flow &
Learning Activities
4. Resources
5. ?
Planning a CB Unit
1. Write an essential question
2. Find your authentic sources; plan your assessments
3. Plan culture and language functions needed for those
assessments
4. Map out major lessons and plan their flow
a.
b.
GOAL: Proficiency in a
World Language Classroom
International Baccalaureate
Social Relationships
Cultural Diversity
Customs & Traditions
Leisure
Science & Technology
Global Issues
Health
Communication & Media
Identity/Belonging
Well-being
Exploring Time & Place
Creativity
Discovery
Challenges
Essential Questions
SHOULD BE....
Broad
Debatable topics
first day
Problem-solving oriented
Easily answered
Able to be answered by Ss
in the TL by end of unit
Pause/Think/Discuss
UNIT DESIGN
template
Spanish 1
city unit
French IV
Education
Unit
Mini-Work Break
Think of a unit you
could update; open a
template and
brainstorm some
themes and essential
questions
https://goo.gl/XSWyxH
French IV
IPA on
Education
Mini-Work Break
What performance
assessments do you use,
or have you thought
about, that you could
modify into part of an
IPA?
https://padlet.com/parrisdallia/backwardsquestions
Day 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
Definition
Research/Why
Goal
Themes & Essential
Questions
5. Clementi/Terrill
Template
6. DONT FREAK OUT
7. IPAs
DAy 2
1. Culture Contexts
2. Language Content
3. Lessons Flow &
Learning Activities
4. Resources
5. ?
Language Content
How do you teach
language content
in your
classroom?
Do you have any
ideas for the
future?
https://padlet.com/parrisdallia/backwardsquestions
Lesson Flow
From Fredricka Stoller, Content-Based Instruction: A Shell
for Language Teaching or a Framework for Strategic Language
and Content Learning
Spanish version
French version & unit
COPY:
NOTES
LATIN ICONS
If you miss something, ask:
Qu le gusta hacer?
What does s/he like to do?
De dnde es l/ella?
From where is
NAME
s/he?
TEXT TYPE
QUANTITY AND
QUALITY OF
LANGUAGE
Meets Expectation:
Minimal
6
More English than
target language
used.
Meets Expectations:
Strong
7-8
More target language
than English used, or
only target language
but isolated words
Exceeds Expectations
9
Only target language
used, and more than a
word at a time.
Mara Juncal
Shakira
Leo Messi
Fernan Origel
Shakira es de Colombia.
A Shakira le gusta escuchar msica.
(...Y cantar, y bailar!)
Mini-Work Break
Consider your chosen
unit. Do you have any
lessons, or ideas, that
could work?
Cultural Contexts
tinyurl.com/authenticresources
The Ohio Department of Education
Some of Lucas's favorites
Language Content
End-of-Lesson
Observational
Notes
Remember this?
...and this?
Language Content
How do you teach
language content
in your
classroom?
Do you have any
ideas for the
future?
Learning Activities
Individual Lessons
Resources
Resources
Teacher's
Handbook
The Keys to
Planning for
Learning
The Keys to
Assessing
Language
Performance
Content-Based
Foreign Language
Teaching