Journey to a journey: Teaching…one step at a time
Deana Zorko
2015 Central States Teacher of the Year
Madison West High School
dzorko@madison.k12.wi.us
A learning framework for students...a journey in progress...
My full personal statement on the value of learning language and culture can be read here.
Number 1: Create a safe and culturally rich classroom environment where meaningful peer interactions take place in the target language.
Peer Interaction Tools
ClassTools.net
Chrome Google Apps and Extensions
Liberating Structures
Kagan ($)
Simultaneous Roundtable
Socratic Seminar-about poetry in English (easily adaptable to Spanish)
Peer Interaction Examples
Art Activities
Daily warm up handout
Classroom video-Art
Thinglink
Self-Expression through Art
(Click arrow to see 2nd slide.)
Art and Literature
Las medias rojas-Emilia Pardo Bazán
Interpretive Communication to peer interaction and formative assessments
Students use stickies to post evidence of the themes they found in José Martí's Versos Sencillos.
Websites used to help enhance students' perspective, understanding, and use of comparisons as the lesson continued.
Number 2: Use effective evaluation/assessment systems to measure students’ growth and development.
Fair vs Equal poster
Student performance
Project
Rubric
Video
Culinary Arts
Student Performance:
This summative 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.
Number 3:
Strengthen students’ skills of initiative and self-direction to encouraging leadership and personal responsibility in their own learning while supporting them to achieve regardless of learning differences as they hone personal productivity and accountability skills to increase language proficiency and cultural knowledge.
- Summative Assessment: Essay Prep and Essay Example
- 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
Student Trip to Modern Art Museum in Madrid
Global Education Achievement Certificate
The environment and giving back
WAFLT eVoice-High Tech/Low Tech articles
http://www.waflt.org/category/enewsletter/high_tech_low_tech/
Reference Materials
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