Progression of Skills (MS)

BCSD World Languages
Progression of Skills: Middle Schools

By: Irma Rameizl & Lester Lara
July 31, 2024

Dear Colleagues,
Welcome Back to the 2024-2025 School year! Lester and I are excited to be presenting this PD titled "Progression of Skills"! We hope to be informative and engaging!
Regards,
Irma Rameizl & Lester Lara

Match

Match the following. How are you?

• Comment allez-vous ?

• 你好吗

  Nǐ hǎo ma

• ¿Cómo está usted?

Ça va bien, merci.

Wǒ hěn hǎo.

Xièxiè 谢谢

Estoy muy bien, gracias.

• Ça va bien, merci.

• Wǒ hěn hǎo.

  Xièxiè 谢谢

• Estoy muy bien, gracias.

Draw

Ice-breaker:

Where would you like to be right now if you had a choice?

Draw a picture to illustrate where would you like to be right if you were not attending this amazing PD!

(Remember to sign your artwork!)

Open Ended

Please introduce yourselves here:

• your name

• which school you teach at, and the subject(s) that you teach.

• how long you have been teaching in total

• how long teaching at BCSD

• What you are most looking forward to about this school year

• Something important that you did this Summer

• Lester and I will introduce ourselves, then we will go around the room and everyone will introduce themselves.

• your name

• which school you teach at, and the subject(s) that you teach.

• how long you have been teaching in total and in BCSD

• What you are most looking forward to about this school year

• Something that you did during this Summer break
  

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Introductions:

MODELO:

Greetings! My name is Irma Rameizl. This year I am teaching 6th and 7th grade Spanish at HHIMS. I have been teaching since 1997, so 28 years in total. I started teaching Spanish at Hudde Junior HS in Brooklyn NY in 1997. And I worked there for four years. Then I moved South to Hilton Head Island in 2001, and started teaching at HHIMS. This will be the start of my 24th year at HHIMS. I am looking forward to collaborating with my colleagues across BCSD. I am also excited to teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking to my Middle Schoolers. In addition, I am looking forward to organizing the Saint Augustine Field trip for my students. Over the Summer, I organized my home, and I worked in the garden. I also started going to church again, which was important to me.

Greetings! My name is Lester Lara. This year will make 24 years of teaching in BCSD. I currently teach Spanish at HE McCracken Middle School. I have also have taught ESOL the first seven years of my career. My teaching experiences have taken me to teach at Hilton Head High, Bluffton High, ACE, and now McCracken. I love to travel around the world. As a child born in Chile, married to a Costa Rican, and a former Beaufort County Alumni who graduated in Hilton Head High in 1993, I am also looking forward to continue to teach our local childrentand bring the best what BCSD can offer.

• to discuss the progression of skills for 6th grade thru 8th grade for Middle School World Languages.

• to discuss how ATL (Approaches to learning) skills could be developed in Middle Schools

• to reflect on our ATL skills and the progression of literary skills

Goals

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt3io4GWNEw&t=163s

Match

Match the following:

• 
  Input/Receptive

• Output/productive

• Each skills should be addressed

Listening and reading

Speaking and writing

Reading, writing, listening, & speaking

• Listening and reading

• Speaking and writing

• Reading, writing, listening, & speaking

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MYP: What are the 'Approaches to Learning"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGiXqq5Yt4o

​Reference: Taylor, Stephen. “Connecting Iste Nets & Ib Atl Skills.” Wayfinder Learning Lab - Stephen Taylor, 30 Apr. 2019, sjtylr.net/2018/06/27/isteatl/.

​ QUESTION:

• Reflection is a quintessential IB skill.

• How do you have your students reflect on their learning/on a performance?

• Discuss this with a neighbor, or with the people at your table.
  (3 minutes)

IB Skills: Approaches to Learning

The International Baccalaureate's (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) uses a framework called Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills to help students learn how to learn. These skills are categorized into ten clusters that are developmentally appropriate and include. It is recommended to focus on one or two skills per unit.

1. Thinking skills

2. Research skills

3. Communication skills

4. Self-management skills

5. Social skills

6. Accessing information

7. Making connections between information sources

8. Understanding sensory learning preferences

Poll

Which IB 'Approaches to Learning' skill do you think that your students struggle with the most?

• Thinking skills

• Research skills

• Accessing information

• Self-Management skills

• Social skills

Approaches to Learning: language, Interaction, Collaboration, media literacy, organizational skills, afFective skills & Social Skills

Approaches to learning: Interaction

"I can exchange thoughts, information and messages effectively through interaction".

Let's reflect on the past school year, what are some ways that you felt were effective in getting the students to interact?
Example (Irma) : Personally, I believe that clear modeling and practice were important. For speaking, Vocaroo (https://vocaroo.com/ )was a good tool because the students were able to record their voices easily and turn in the link on Google Classroom.

Also, the students loved group projects.

• Examples of vocaroos from 7th graders (Spanish class) that was used to record practicing a skill.

• What are some benefits of using a vocaroo? (Turn and talk)

• Sentence stems makes the assignment quick and focused. They are good to keep the students on task. You can make them more higher-order by varying the questioning. For example, I could add on ¿Por qué ? Why?

1.
https://vocaroo.com/1l2mLvKMxZek

2.
https://vocaroo.com/1n5u6zU2kqzi?authuser=0

3.
https://vocaroo.com/1gQUqruaPOZ3?authuser=0

Approaches to Learning: Language

​ "I can read, write, and use language to communicate information effectively".

Some reading resources that we have are:

• Scholastic magazines: ¿Qué Tal? (Spanish) Scholastic has Spanish books too.

• Google forms: (Grades the quizzes, gives feedback/ share with other teachers)

• Gimkit: You can assign practice links and individual (solo) play links: Example: https://www.gimkit.com/practice/662ad8440a29145712e9df65

• Quizziz ( school has a professional account): Pick magazine articles from ¿Qué Tal? (Spanish) and create your quizziz. Example: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/64a759a1f492e6001d322cff?section=collections&searchLocale=

• Textbooks: Example: Calle de la Lectura, 6.1.6.2

• Kahoot, Quizlet live

• Donor's Choose: Remember to fill in the request form with your school's bookkeeper first. https://www.donorschoose.org/

  
  

Approaches to Learning: Language: Writing
(Language skill: Writing)

What are some engaging projects that you did last year with writing?
Group discussion: 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade (3-5 mins)

Letter/Una carta: 6th grade

Unit/Unidad: Introduction/La introducción
Canva Presentations allow you to record over the writing, and share it.
(To record click on Upload, then share).

La carta de Catalina
https://www.canva.com/design/DAF97Os_08Q/B4q0-haTBtdn74e7VuBj6g/edit?utm_content=DAF97Os_08Q&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
NB: The students write a rough draft in their note book which we peer edit, and give teacher feedback too.

Writing: Storyboards
& Google Drawings

​Website: https://www.storyboardthat.com/

• This is a fun cartoon making website that many students enjoyed.

• Always give the students the option to work on paper too!

• Remember to model how to use the website.

• You can also paste the cartoons into a Google Slides and create a cover slide.

• More examples are in Rubicon (Introducciones/Introductions)

• Can be used for any topic.

​seis* Typo

Google Drawings

• ​Another useful web application is Google Drawings.https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1P3Ez0f_q_6sVpP59PKwq8MCy7aRmUViEEATCL-sgyWE/edit

• Google drawings is a fun application that is quick and easy to use.  Here is a example of a conversation that I made as an example for my 6^th graders.

• https://www.remove.bg/ may be used to remove the background from pictures.

Poll

Do you have your students write a rough draft on paper (in their notebooks) before typing their final draft on the computer?

• Yes.

• No

• It depends on the assignment.

Listening Resource example: Edpuzzle
https://edpuzzle.com/discover

• ​Can be used in any language

• Can be shared with other teachers

• Synchronous “real-time”.

• Asynchronous (Assigned for homework/practice)

• Automatically graded.

• Example:

  https://edpuzzle.com/media/616303984533df415f0dac88

Poll

Have you ever created an Edpuzzle?

• Yes

• No

​Resource: (7min 41 sec)
How to use Ed Puzzle (World Language Classes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_9w0Efk9WU

Quizziz as a Reading Resource

• Many types of questioning and responses

• Used with a variety of texts

• May include writing responses to the reading prompts

• Data to be analyzed/feedback

• Reports may be sent home

• Study guides may be shared

• Everyone is reading!

Word Cloud

Quizziz could help teach my students to be literate in the target language because...

• Think of some of the skills and resources that have just presented, work with a partner, and discuss one to resources that you think would be most helpful to teach a specific skill.

• Also, disuss which approach to learning, you will focus on for a unit.
  

Time to collaborate!

Resources from SCFLTA workshops

​Lester willl now share some resources from a SCFLTA workshop that he recently attended this year.

Poll

Lester and I hope that you have a wonderful new school year!

We are here to help each other!

Did you learn something today?

• No, I did not learn anything new today.

• Yes, I did. Thank you!

Draw

How do you feel now that you have completed this workshop?

Draw your selfie!

Survey: Kindly take this survey to about quizziz.

https://quizizz.com/join/pre-game/running/U2FsdGVkX1%252B8p4vgWxzceHz%252B3fL8cslTU03kFbHySOqzW0O6BdNuN3GQ51cSnIv7t1dJA0E38IoU2M7G06EJoQ%253D%253D/start