Deana Zorko

Madison West High School

Madison, WI 

dzorko@madison.k12.wi.us

Table of Contents

Teaching Video

Student Evidence 

• Culinary Arts
• Social Justice
• Myths & Legends
• Self-Expression Through Art

Professional and Community Outreach

Teaching Video

Culinary Arts

• Student Performance: 

This performance assessment is the culminating activity of a level 3 thematic unit based on understanding cultural perspectives related to the culinary arts in the Spanish speaking world.

Social Justice

• Interpretive Communication: Students used stickies to post evidence of the themes they found in José Martí's Versos Sencillos 

• Some websites used to prepare students for performance assessments:
• José Martí 
• Diego Rivera 
• Juan Luis Guerra
• Día de Los Muertos 

• Altar Examples

• Summative Assessment: Essay Prep and Essay Example

Myths & Legends 

• Presentational communication example of a student created myth.

Proyecto pánico-ejemplo-conejos gigantes.mp3

• Presentational Communication examples of student created legend. Legends included both a written portion and the reading of their legend in an oral recording. Students brainstormed possible natural occurrences for their topic and no topic could be repeated by multiple students. This addresses written and oral presentational communication.

Written Student Sample 

Student Oral Performance

El volcan.mp3

Examples of Feedback to Students

Daily warm up form

Warm up activities

Vocabulario 1 actividades del arte.pdf 

Formative Art Assessment

Artistas prueba.pdf

Culture in & Beyond the Classroom

Self-Expression through Art

(Click arrow to see 2nd slide.)

Student Trip to Modern Art Museum in Madrid

Global Education Achievement Certificate

The environment and giving back

Professional & Community Outreach

WAFLT eVoice-High Tech/Low Tech articles

http://www.waflt.org/category/enewsletter/high_tech_low_tech/

Fitchburg Star Article

p.9

http://www.fitchburgstar.com/content/fs1212

Madison Metropolitan School District Recognition

Office of Multilingual and Global Education Newsletter

https://multilingual.madison.k12.wi.us/node/193

WL Educators Notification

• Professional Outreach
• Smartboard Training for MMSD educators-YouTube Video
• Outreach Workshop to University of Wisconsin WL educators 

Reference Materials

• MMSD Guiding Principles for Grading
• Reading Like a Sleuth Infographic-Close Reading Guide for Teachers
• Read Like a Detective Infographic-Close Reading Guide for Students 
• WI DPI Reading Texts Types  
• Common Core Quick Reference
• West High School High Five
• Costa's Levels of Questions 
• Bloom's Taxonomy