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From http://cercll.arizona.edu/lates-language-teacher-symposium/

Our sister LRC, the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) hosts a biannual day-long symposium at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community. 

This year's symposium will take place April 21 at the University of Arizona. The topic is "Planning with the End in Mind: Performance Towards Proficiency."

Symposium description: 

Beginning with the end in mind, in this workshop participants will deconstruct sample performance assessment tasks to identify the knowledge and skills that learners are expected to demonstrate. They will discuss how closely the tasks reflect real-world contexts where learners need to use the target language. Next, participants will discuss criteria to use in evaluating learners’ performances. The participants will then compare the criteria they generated to the model rubrics that were used for the sample performance tasks. They will evaluate sample performances using the criteria from the sample rubrics and any additional criteria suggested to enhance the evaluation of the task. They will discuss the degree to which the rubrics successfully reflect high quality performance. Next, participants will brainstorm the kinds of activities that will prepare learners to successfully complete the final performance tasks. After analyzing the model performance assessment tasks, participants will develop standards-based performance assessment tasks and rubrics for their own teaching context.

Presenter: Donna Clementi

For full details go to http://cercll.arizona.edu/lates-language-teacher-symposium/