“Assessing Language Proficiency with LinguaFolio™”
September 24, 2011 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
(lunch is on your own)
Kentwood High School
25800 164th AVE SE
Covington, WA 98042
Cost: No Charge
6 free Clock Hours available from WAFLT
Please register at: http://tinyurl.com/LinguaFolio-Sept24
Presented by Dr. Bridget Yaden, WAFLT President and Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University
Language teachers have been searching for years for cost-effective tools to help support assessment of student language proficiency. Washington State is launching a pilot of just such a tool: LinguaFolio™.
http://www.ncssfl.org/LinguaFolio/in...guafolio_index
LinguaFolio™ is a portfolio assessment instrument designed to support individuals in setting and achieving their goals for learning languages.
It includes these three components:
* Biography, where information about a student’s language background, intercultural activities, and the self-assessment checklists are documented,
* Dossier, where samples of a student’s work document progress over time, and
* Passport, where formal qualifications, certificates or diplomas, and achievements are recorded, along with a summary of self-assessments that describe competency with different languages.
This three-fold approach, based on the European Language Portfolio, enables language learners of all ages and levels to document their language learning as they move along the continuum towards greater proficiency.
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This 4-part workshop will introduce LinguaFolio™ and its components and allow language educators to delve into the LinguaFolio™ checklists in greater detail – to actually tailor LinguaFolio™ for their own language classes from elementary level to high school and beyond. Teachers will also have the opportunity to create their own LinguaFolio Online portfolio.
Part 1: Introducing LinguaFolio™
- What is LinguaFolio™?
- How was it developed and how is it being used?
- What resources exist for LinguaFolio™?
- Adapting LinguaFolio Jr. for early language learners
- What are the Modes of Communication included in LinguaFolio™ Checklists?
- What are the Proficiency Levels?
- What Proficiency Levels could your students reach?
- How can you tailor the Checklists for your language program?
- Using LinguaFolio™ for Credit for Proficiency.
- How can you capture data to show student growth?
- How can you help students select evidence to show what they can do?
- What is LinguaFolio Online?
- Who developed it and how is it being used?
- How can you access LinguaFolio Online to use with your language students?
** Bring your laptops with you, if you like.
Wi-Fi available in the library (along with about 40 school computers). **
Co-sponsored by Kent School District, Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT), and Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
For questions about the LinguaFolio™ pilot in Washington state, please contact:
Dr. Michele Anciaux Aoki, World Languages Program Supervisor
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
michele.aoki@k12.wa.us
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