4. So WHY are you here?
• Meetings with Jason Glass and
Department of Ed, re. representation for
WL
• Desire for bottom up change
• Needing our members to be informed of
best practices in curriculum nationally
and internationally
• Wanting a variety of input, a variety of
levels and areas of expertise
• Wanting an IOWA WL curriculum that
builds off work of others
6. OUR VISION
Create and implement an IOWA WL
Curriculum that focuses on:
• Student learning outcomes,
• Core standards (that pertain to what we do),
• Intercultural skills and cultural analysis,
• Applied language and performance based
tasks
This culminates in a Language portfolio for K-
16 with assessment build in and designed to
improve student learning.
7. • We know that these elements exist
already in other states and parts of the
world.
• Elements already exist in our classrooms,
so we are not starting over, only being
more purposeful.
8. Two year process
YEAR-ONE:
• Discussions and work on:
– Guide to goal setting
– Student self-assessment
– Helping students reflect and strategize
– Authentic performance tasks
– How to make goals central to the curriculum
9. YEAR TWO:
• Active inclusion in our own classrooms
• Collaborative discussions about what is
working and what is not.
AT THE END OF YEAR TWO:
• Refine curriculum and introduce to our
members (conference presentations, Regional
presentations, webinars etc.)