{"id":228,"date":"2016-01-11T02:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-01-11T04:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T04:09:17","slug":"sorry-i-dont-speak-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/2016\/01\/11\/sorry-i-dont-speak-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, I don’t speak French…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… I mean I took French until Grade 12 but I never learned to speak. Everyone in my family is bad at French. Sound familiar?\u00a0For decades, we’ve graduated students who’ve taken French for 9 -12 years who cannot for the life of them muster a basic conversation. If this was Math or Physics there would have been a public outcry! But it’s just French right? Everyone knows someone who is bad at French…\u00a0\"Keep<\/a><\/p>\n

My action plan for past three years has focused on ways to transform FSL\/FLE teaching so students can enter a high school program, and in 4 years be able to communicate in the language. I’ve taken a #PersonalizedLearning approach, and have given the students the opportunity to drive. I’ve experienced some success in engagement as students get to read, listen to, and talk about what interests them.\u00a0I’ve also had some failures… students who want to sit back and learn passively, and those who don’t really know what they’re interested in or where to start from because they’ve never been given the opportunity – though that is changing rapidly as @timrollwagen<\/a>, @aconnelly<\/a>\u00a0& @marsenault<\/a> are fostering\u00a0student agency in their courses.<\/p>\n

I want to focus my energy on assessment. I think my assessments are good. We\u00a0always focus on global audience and the students receive lots of feedback through conferencing and Google Docs but I think I can seriously bump them up. To this end I’ve made a concerted effort to learn and consolidate as much as I can on the subject.<\/p>\n

In August, I participated in Jay McTighe<\/a>‘s\u00a0Designing Authentic Performance Tasks to Promote Meaningful Learning and Assess What Matters Most\u00a0<\/em>this summer at Havergal College. I’m lucky in that I hear about what @lmcbeth does in her classes on a regular basis but her\u00a0incredible DocAppender & Forms<\/a> presentation at the #GAFESummit at Greenwood College showed me ways in which to give real-time feedback to students in class via multiple forms, and keep my personalized learning environment in check. Most\u00a0recently @jenbibby<\/a> hosted a great #CISDELF<\/a> conference where Keynote Speaker Denis Cousineau<\/a> blew the socks off of everyone as he introduced #TransformingFSL and shared excellent assessment of FLE strategies and resources<\/a>. This \"POC\"brought all of my assessment learning into focus for FSL\/FLE. And to top it off, a conversation around assessment in the staff room led to an excellent book suggestion by Joe McRae<\/a> titled Quality Assessment in Hight Schools Accounts From Teachers<\/a><\/em> by Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst & Kathy Busick.<\/p>\n

So having had the holiday to really process everything I’ve been learning of late, I have my action plan.<\/p>\n

How Might We<\/span> design and implement authentic performance task and feedback structures to allow students to drive their own learning of a second language?<\/em><\/h2>\n

To this end, I have joined\u00a0@timrollwagen<\/a> & Joe McRae among others at Lakefield College to embark as a PLC on an exploration of assessment throughout the school.<\/p>\n

So I’m good to go right? WRONG!! I was so impressed while hanging up the C21\u00a0How Might We<\/strong>\u00a0action plan statements in The York School hallways, that I … COMPLETELY\u00a0FORGOT to put mine up. I missed a huge opportunity to crowd source an incredibly talented group of educators, and for this I am terribly disappointed, but I’ve not given up!<\/p>\n

I’m hoping you’ll consider using the comments as your sticky notes! Any ideas, resources, people to follow on Twitter or G+, Apps, etc… would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n

Au plaisir de vous lire!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… I mean I took French until Grade 12 but I never learned to speak. Everyone in my family is bad at French. Sound familiar?\u00a0For decades, we’ve graduated students who’ve Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-of-learning","category-personalized-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/derekdoucet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}