Common+Core+Updates

=**Common Core Updates, Thursday, August 23, 2012**=

1. Stay informed about what's happening in our content area

 * NCDPI Summer Institute 2012, World Language Content Session:**


 * [|Summer Institute, WL Content Session]**


 * [|WLES Livebinder (NCDPI)]**


 * [|NCWorldLang's Delicious Bookmarking Site]**


 * NCDPI Webinars (see WLES Wiki for 2012-13 schedule)**

**2. Proficiency "MUST DO:" Teach the language IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE**

 * [|Proficiency 101 Lesson Plan Template and Video Examples]**

**3. Proficiency "MUST DO:" Facilitate student understanding of what they will be able to do at the end of each unit and at the end of the course ("Backwards Design")**

 * a. Display the Essential Standards for each course that you teach on your classroom wall and REFER**
 * to them often.**


 * b. Display a poster of RBT action verbs IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE on your classroom walls.**
 * (See materials from June Literacy Workshops--ask a colleague who was there for a copy or see the scanned pages on the Literacy Strategies page.)**


 * c. Display a poster or a Word Wall of SIGNAL WORDS used in writing strategies, IN THE TARGET**
 * LANGUAGE. (See materials from June Literacy Workshops--ask a colleague who was there for a copy or see the scanned pages on the Literacy Strategies page.)**


 * d. Within the first few days of the semester, employ a 'charting the text' literacy strategy to teach**
 * students how to use your text book, a bilingual dictionary, and any other resource that you use on**
 * a regular basis.**


 * e. Use Literacy Strategies throughout your lesson plans.**


 * SEE THE INDIVIDUAL COURSE LINKS FOR SOME LESSON PLAN SAMPLES THAT SOME COLLEAGUES**
 * WORKED ON DURING THIS SUMMER'S WORKSHOP.**

**4. Proficiency "MUST DO:" Assessment**

 * a. LinguaFolio**
 * [|LinguaFolio Training Modules]**


 * b. NCDPI's Assessment Examples and Graphic Organizers**
 * [|Graphic Organizer Example: Novice Low, Greetings]**


 * [|Link to all NCDPI WL Graphic Organizer Samples]**


 * [|Assessment Example, Novice Low, Greetings, Performance Task]**


 * [|Link to all Assessment Examples (NCDPI)]**


 * c. Common Formative Assessments and PLCs**


 * d. Mastery Charts and 'Can Do' statements**