UNDERSTANDING PROFICIENCY
PROFICIENCY
Proficiency Guidelines are a description of what individuals can do with language in terms of speaking, writing, listening, and reading in real-world situations in a spontaneous and non-rehearsed context.
PROFICIENCY GOALS:
Spanish 1 - Novice Mid
Spanish 2 - Novice High
Spanish 3 - Intermediate Low
Spanish 4 - Intermediate Mid
AP Spanish Lang. & Culture - Intermediate High (College Board standards apply)
AP Spanish Literature & Culture - Advanced Low (College Board standards apply)
Proficiency Guidelines are a description of what individuals can do with language in terms of speaking, writing, listening, and reading in real-world situations in a spontaneous and non-rehearsed context.
PROFICIENCY GOALS:
Spanish 1 - Novice Mid
Spanish 2 - Novice High
Spanish 3 - Intermediate Low
Spanish 4 - Intermediate Mid
AP Spanish Lang. & Culture - Intermediate High (College Board standards apply)
AP Spanish Literature & Culture - Advanced Low (College Board standards apply)
COMPONENTS OF OUR SPANISH CLASS
Class Work:
The class will engage with a meaningful proficiency/project-based theme. All class work is designed to help students advance their communication skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking-at the specified proficiency level) while working toward an authentic purpose. Always keeping in mind our goal of communication, not perfection! As we know communication is reciprocal and requires a variety of distinct skills.
- Interpretive Reading-Can you understand what you see?
- Interpretive Listening-Can you understand what you hear?
- Interpersonal Communication-Can you have a conversation with some else?
- Representational Speaking-Can you express yourself in speech?
- Representational Writing- can you express yourself in writing?
Assessment:
Through out the semester students will have vocabulary and grammar quizzes/tests. At the end of every unit students will be evaluated on performance assessments aligned with the different modes of communication. This will include interpersonal(speaking or writing with someone) and representational (speaking or writing about someone). As well as, reading and listening before responding in Spanish. Keeping in mind our goal, it is about what the student CAN do when communicating.
The overall grade will be mostly based on which proficiency level the student is at the end of the assessments. North Carolina Essential Standards indicate that students should reach Novice Mid level in four of the five skill categories by the end of Spanish I. This rubric will be used to measure student language: