During the September 30th PLC - All Spanish I teachers in LPS will be reuniting to create a Spanish I District Common Assessment. Here are some things we should be thinking about as we get ready to put together the assessment.
As we create this common assessment we need to keep in mind our essential learnings that we came up with at our last meeting (in April):
- Subject pronouns
- Basic AR, ER, IR verb conjugation
- Stem changing verb conjugagtion (eàie), (oàue), (eài), jugar
- Irregular “yo” verbs (go verbs, dar, saber, conocer and ir and ser)
- Adjective agreement and placement
- Ser vs Estar and Tener expessions
- Double verbs (including tener que and ir a)
- Vocabulary from introduction – 6b
Also keep in mind:
- We want objective grading (quick and precise) NO GRAY AREA –Except final put it together section
o HOWEVER… Application is ESSENTIAL. Students must be able to create, write, communicate, synthesize, and write letters, interviews, responses, essays, and opinions. These should be the key components in teaching a language. If they can’t create it to communicate, then what have we taught them??? Grading the application of Spanish is subjective, therefore this assessment is to assess students’ essential basic knowledge and skills learned in Spanish I.
- Precise data analysis (exactly what can/can’t the student do?)
- Not too long
- We will implement in all Spanish I classes in LPS in April
- In order to be able to analyze the results to determine strengths and weaknesses, every section should be assessing 1 specific grammar point (when more concepts are put together to assess it is difficult to see the exact areas of weakness).
