Sometimes I feel like I’m reinventing myself every year. Do you ever look back on something you did and think, “Why on earth did I do it that way? What a bad idea! Here we go again.” I feel like I do that every year! So even though I completely redesigned my Spanish 3 class last year, this past summer I attended a week-long workshop on using proficiency-based assessments, and here I am again, reinventing Spanish 3.
I give all the credit in the world to @tmsaue1 and the @JCPSWorldLang teachers who welcomed me into their learning community and inspired me to work on authentic, proficiency-based, standards-based assessments. You can view their documents here. In the spirit of open source I also try to make everything I do available. Here are my Spanish 3 assessment documents, and the rubric I use to “grade” them (you’ll notice there’s no place for an actual grade). Feel free to comment here with your email if you want an editable version–they looked terrible in Google Docs as Word documents.
I would love to have editable versions! Thanks for sharing! @senordaves
I also reinvent every year–we pay the price for perfectionism, but our students benefit… I hope. I think your tasks and your rubrics look great. I am trying to have this same conversation in my district. @katchiringa
Could you send the editable versions my way too? I relate with you in feeling like I'm continuously reinventing my classes, activities, and curriculum. But as Srta. Ruddick said, our students benefit, and… other teachers and their students benefit, when educators like you share your work and inspirations. THANK YOU so much!
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If you give me your email addresses I'll send them forthwith! 🙂
Would love editable versions. 🙂 My email is emiliedelrisco@calvaryknights.com . Thank you!
These look great! Thanks for sharing. I agree, that I am constantly reinventing my teaching and/or lessons trying to improve.
I like the set up of these units, it is MUCH better than what my district has. I would like to share these with my department and possibly try them out! Could I, too, have the editable versions? My email is kjacobs147@gmail.com Thanks for being an exemplar and up-to-date educator! 🙂
I noticed that Unit 3 of the assessment documents does not contain any assessment. Is there one? Also, are there more assessments than what are posted here? Over what course of time do these units occur?
Thanks
dseibel@warren.k12.in.us
Yes, I did complete many more that weren’t uploaded – I’ll get on that. 🙂 Some of the units are shorter than others because of content but typically they are 4-5 weeks each.
Thank you so much for your entire blog! I have been giving my Spanish 2 and 3 classes extreme makeovers, and I found this post under the Spanish 3 tag. I love your general philosophy of language learning and teaching, and have been using a lot of your ideas. I would love to see what kind of units and assessments you are using in 3, but I cannot open this link. Would you mind sharing your editable versions? My email is csweet@prairiecentral.org. Thank you!
Sure, no problem!
Hola!
I was just looking over your online resources. Gracias! They look great. I will be sharing your site with my teachers. Would you happen to have sample reading/listening comprehension assessments for Intermediate Mid? Unfortunately, I am more francophone than hispanophone and am having a hard time finding some good examples.
Hi there – have you checked out Lisa’s website: http://madameshepard.com/ ? Hope this helps!