1. MARYLAND CCR CONFERENCE 2015 What Do Instructional Shifts Look Like in World Language Classrooms?

2. iOpeners I want to know… I can… I have heard… I know… I wonder… I am concerned about… I…(create your own) http://padlet.com/tzinoseergae/WL

3. Outcome Participants will discover the instructional shifts that are most effective for today’s language learners in order to design learning experiences that help language learners develop literacy and 21 st century skills.

4. Then & Now Source: Partnership for 21 st Century Skills Can you find the Key Instructional Shift?

5. Key Instructional Shifts

7. Function Over Form Discuss: 1. What does it mean to focus on function over form? 2. How is that supported by the key shift of 90%+ target language use? 3. How do language learners acquire grammar and syntax when instruction is aligned to these shifts? 4. How do you make meaning comprehensible if you stay in the target language 90% + of the time?

8. Placemat Collaboration

9. Authentic Materials Created for native speakers of a language Used by native speakers to access information Describe the everyday life of the different cultures Consumed by the native speakers of the target language/culture

12. Authentic Tasks Must provide a real need to communicate Replicate common native speaker tasks What do you do after you… read something? look for information online? listen to traffic report? view a PowerPoint presentation? hear a story? watch a TV show or movie? Source: ACTFL Workshops for MSDE, 2014

13. Authentic Audiences Appropriate to the purpose of the task Simulates audiences of native speakers of the target language/culture  Creates situations in which students initiate, maintain, and sustain conversations (interpersonal mode)  Allows students to be who they are.  Social beings  Consumers of information  Producers  Collaborators

14. Authentic Evidence Uses content where students have some familiarity Provides students with some degree of control Aligns with authentic tasks  Provides a real need to communicate  Demonstrates comprehension  Fits purpose and audience Shows progress learners are making towards learning goals

15. Making the Shift Using what we have learned and discussed today, use the Can-do statements to design a key learning activity/formative assessment incorporating multiple key instructional shifts. Be prepared to share your instructional decisions.

16. Summary – The 3 Ws Write responses to the following: What did we learn today ? So What is the importance/usefulness? Now What are you going to do with what you have learned? (How does this fit into my instructional practices?)