Hello Cohort, I need your help!<\/p>\n
My resolution this year is to provide as many opportunities as possible for my students to learn French in an authentic way. Typically, I think of an authentic end product or performance that I want students to work toward, but over the past few weeks my students have been getting ready to interview a francophone who lives in Toronto but was raised elsewhere. The idea was to expose students to francophone culture that exists on their doorstep; to find out what those who weren’t raised in Toronto think of our city, our cultural habits, what they like and dislike about life in Toronto and what, if anything, they miss about their hometown. I think it’s so valuable reflecting on one’s own culture at the same time as learning about other cultures. Speaking strictly from our current curriculum perspective, this give students a chance to speak and<\/em> listen in an authentic way in French.<\/p>\n My initial focus has been on the interview itself and finding enough connections (when some of my students were unable to do so themselves) so that all 26 students will be interviewing a francophone. This process has put me in touch with the president of Canadian Parents for French, someone who works at the Centre Francophone, and someone who is connected to TFO – I’ve discovered amazing resources at my fingertips! My secondary focus has been on what to do with the results. Students know that they will be recording their interview to share with me, analyzing their results and putting together a presentation, which exposes the class to their interviewee’s background, perspectives and connection to Toronto. Once the presentations are complete I’d like the students to reflect on the results of the interviews as a whole.<\/p>\n I know this isn’t the way it should normally work (i.e. students should have a much clearer idea of what they’re being evaluated on) so I’ve delayed the roll-out of interviews until next week. Should I be evaluating their interview performance, and ability to ask spontaneous as well as scripted questions? Should the evaluation end there, and the rest just be a follow-up activity? Is there a more interesting way to bring their research together and make connections? *this is where I think technology might play a role, and why I’ve posted here!<\/strong><\/p>\n Any suggestions you might have on this project would be greatly appreciated!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello Cohort, I need your help! My resolution this year is to provide as many opportunities as possible for my students to learn French in an authentic way. Typically, I think of an authentic end product or performance that I want students to work toward, but over the past few weeks my students have been … Continue reading “Grappling with Assessment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,14,12,13,15],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assessment","tag-authentic","tag-culture","tag-francophone","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}