Assessing Language with LinguaFolio - Sept. 20

Cost: No Charge
3 free Clock Hours available from OSPI

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/2atjm5f

Organized by Barbara Ford, the Language Link, LLC
www.thelanguagelinkllc.com (206) 708-4633
Address questions about the workshop to info@thelanguagelinkllc.com.

Presented by Dr. Michele Anciaux Aoki, World Languages Program Supervisor
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Address questions about LinguaFolio to michele.aoki@k12.wa.us.

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.
This 3-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. You may come for all three segments or one or two. (You need to attend all three hours in order to receive clock hours.)

3:30-4:30 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

4:30-5:30 Part 2: Taking a Closer Look at Proficiency Levels
·What are the Modes of Communication included in LinguaFolio Checklists?
·What are the Proficiency Levels?
·What Proficiency Levels could your students reach?

5:30-6:30 Part 3: Using LinguaFolio and Tracking Student Results
·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?

For more information about the LinguaFolio WA Pilot, visit:
http://sites.google.com/site/worldlanguageswashington/assessment/linguafolio-wa

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/2atjm5f