This year we are adopting a proficiency-based classroom based on the goal of communication. All of our formal assessments will be done using proficiency-based rubrics and standards. This change in format would not have been possible without my colleagues from #langchat, who have given me many ideas and shared resources. I would specifically like to thank Amy Lenord(@alenord), Thomas Sauer, (@tmsaue1), Kara Parker from The Creative Language Class blog and the Jefferson County Public School’s foreign language department.
To start with, we adapted the following rubric from Amy Lenord to make a simple grading scale of out 5 points. Students can earn a 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5,3, or 2.5 out of 5 points to cover A+, A-, B-, C-, D-, and F, essentially what you would have as a GPA. This rubric is not intended for formal assessments, but rather to have posted to encourage the students to work towards speaking at a more proficient level.
We hope this encourages students to expand their answer and be cognoscente of how they are responding to questions and to try to work to at least a 4. To make it easy for students to understand, we have enlarged this rubric and used sentence strips to give an examples, and posted it above our whiteboard: Continue reading
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