SMART GOAL

Students will do 2 - 4 listening activities per chapter during the 2nd semester working to achieve 80% accuracy on assessments per activity.

5 de noviembre

Created formative assessment on object pronouns. Gayle will type by Friday, we'll give the assessment Wed Nov 12.
Intro Realidades Ch 7 with mini Art project to introduce indiginous American cultures.
Read "La Yaqui Hermosa" from Galeria along with the vocabulary and comprehension building activities.

20 de octubre

We discussed our common assessment for the Future tense. We agree that students should produce more through their own Spanish. There will be a verb bank from which students write simple future, probability, future perfect and future progressive sentences.
Melissa didn't think reading selection Rosa was appropriate, too abstract. Gayle will try the short story "Nosotros, No".

3-10-08

We looked at the data from our common assessment given Tuesday 30-9-08. Students did well. As soon as I checked the data, I realized that I had 2 incorrect answers filled in on the key. Listening and vocabulary(definitions in Spanish) continue to be the most challanging sections. We discussed the difference in types of assessments - those that allow students what they know (test generated by us) and a student produced assessment (directed speaking, writing). What a student KNOWS and can DO.....
We need to be concious of that balance.
What does whole language mean?

26-9-08

Melissa and Gayle firmed up the summative exam for SpanIV. We agreed on the listening activity (p243 R), Melissa created multiple choice definitions for vocabulary. We'll use R test for dem adj and pro and Gayle created the sentences for the perfect tenses. Melissa will get the test info to Andrew, Gayle will put the test together. We agree to do another practice listening on
29-9. Test is Tuesday 30-9-09