When I first started out teaching and for several years after, like most veteran teachers, my tests were based purely on vocabulary, grammar, and random textbook cultural knowledge. I spent a lot frustrated hours grading and using up a ton of purple ink marking kids down for misspelled conjugations and nit-picky grammatical details that don't really matter in the long run. Subsequently, I spent a lot of time feeling guilty for submitting my early students to this type of "assessment" method. I try to remind myself that I was only using the practices that I experienced in high school and college and observed in my student teaching. I didn't know any better. I'd never seen or experienced perfomance-based assessment. The only way I knew how to test my kids was to mark wrong what they didn't know and neither my students nor I learned much from these tests except that 1) I had failed to teach them well and 2) they hadn't learned the material. When I was first exposed to IPAs and performance-based assessment mentods in the beginning of my 4th year of teaching, I was understandably critical. I was being told I was required to give IPAs, but given no training or professional development in what they were, how to make them, or how to give them. This was in 2008 before the popularity of blogs, Pinterest, Twitter, or Teachers Pay Teachers. To my knowledge, even ACTFL wasn't yet publishing much about IPAs. All of my district information about these mysterious assessments was delivered via email and I was the most experienced of two language teachers at my school, which obviously isn't saying much. Let's just say year 4 was rough in the curriculum department and that the learning curve was steep. I had to relearn, mostly on my own, how to be a Spanish teacher and the transition was painful and yet incredibly rewarding. I quickly realized that the units I was required to teach didn't match up with anything in the textbook, rendering them useless. Once I started creating and giving my own scratch-made IPAs, I found that I also had to throw out a lot of my previous instructional practices because they didn't get my students to the necessary proficiency goals. It was a mess, but it was gloriously exhilarating. When I look back now at my early IPAs, I cringe a little because I broke a lot of what I would now call "proficiency rules." However, I've been refining and improving my tricks to making an effective IPA for almost a decade (how can it have been that long!?) and I'd really like to share some of them with my fellow language teachers so you don't have to go through as much trial and error as I did! This is just the first of a series posts dedicated specifically to integrated performance assessments. Click here for the next blog post, Part 2: How to Create and Give IPAS: The Interpretive Task. I'll be discussing how to create an IPA, actually give them to your students (this is more complicated than one might think), tips and tricks, things to avoid and more. I'd also love it if you'd follow me on social media, subscribe to my blog using form on the right sidebar, and comment below so we can have a collaborative conversation about integrated performance assessments. Finally, please check out my Spanish I IPAs here! I've worked really hard to make them useable for new-to-IPA teachers and they come with I-can statements, goals, preparation materials, student prompts, rubrics, answer keys, and even student samples.
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In a performance and proficiency based classroom, students coming from traditional classroom needs some guidance. Musicuento uses an example of a “Talking about a taco” to show the diff…
[caption id="attachment_13538" align="aligncenter" width="316"] Graphic by Grace Hudson (@MissH_biology)[/caption] A few weeks ago I co-wrote an...
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Persuasive or Rhetorical Appeals are the building blocks for persuasive or argumentative essay writing. This complete lesson is designed introduce middle-high school students to the terms ethos, pathos, and logos. Student Experience: Students will step into the world of ethos, pathos, and logos with the mindset that these are the key pieces in argumentation. As you deliver the lecture with the eye-catching, no prep PPT, students will fill in their sketch notes. You will guide them through several models, examples, and then they will complete the guided practice. Next, students will identify the terms you just covered in modern examples and complete in an interactive vocabulary exercise. To further their application and understanding, students will participate in a gallery walk. Finally, the worksheet and quiz provided will provide you with the assessment you need to measure understanding. Included: Lecture in 100% editable PPT and Google format (with ORIGINAL print examples and video links) Sketch Notes for Guided Note taking (not editable due to font and style choices) Guided Practice Interactive, editable sorting activity in print and Google digital format Interactive, no-prep gallery walk for identify and analyzing ethos, pathos, logos with original ads and textual examples along with commercials Practice Worksheet Two editable quizzes Lesson plan and suggestion pacing Graphic organizer students can use with any text for success after the lesson Modern-style Classroom Posters Plus, be sure to check out my Ethos, Pathos, Logos Breakout game, not included in the bundle mentioned above! Ethos, Pathos, Logos Breakout Game Classroom success stories from teachers who have tried this resource: ♥ "Excellent for my 7th graders to grasp the concepts, thank you! Thank you for a concise lesson for these concepts." ♥ "This is the first time I've taught this topic and it was so nice to have this unit - it was a HUGE help!" ♥ "This was an excellent ppt with fun video links my HS students enjoyed. Thank you!" ♥ "I used this with my students before we evaluated texts and various other media for Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. This purchase is very student friendly. Takes away all of the extra explaining for me." ♥ "This seller seeks to create innovative lessons that truly engage learners. I have personally reached out, and she responds with great empathy. This resource is great, and the seller highly recommended!" ♥ "This was a lot better than what I had! Students loved the easy notes sheet, and it has been helpful!" ♥ "For introducing rhetorical devices this was a great pack. I have 9th grade students and need to expose them this year for next year. I found the examples great!" Each of my ELA skills-readiness "How to Teach It" Lesson Packs includes a teacher's guide lesson plan, an easy-to-use PPT lecture explaining the concept, guided practice, opportunity for collaborative and individual practice, and a form of assessment. See my other English standards skills readiness teaching packs, and teach the fundamental skills first for success! Summarizing Close Reading & Annotating Citing Textual Evidence Evaluate Credibility of Websites Propaganda and Logical Fallacies Allusions Setting Affects Plot Theme Development Symbolism Characterization Conflict Affects Plot Author’s Perspective Homophones, Frequently Confused Words Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to FOLLOW ME. Voila! You will now receive email updates about my store. For more ideas and inspiration: Faulkner's Fast Five Blog Julie's Classroom Stories on Instagram Julie's Classroom Stories on Facebook Teaching Middle and High School English Facebook Group Yearbook and Journalism Facebook Group Pinterest Created 2014-Updated 2019 Terms of Use: Please one classroom use only. Not to be shared online without proper security. Additional licenses sold at a discount at checkout. **Images and art are documented on credits page in download.
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Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.
Teaching prose, drama, and poetry is quick and easy. Your third and fourth grade students just need a little vocabulary and practice.
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Starting Arts has always had a very close partnership with parents in the community. Parents have the power to change their school culture in amazing and effective ways. For example, Starting Arts…
