Spanish Curriculum Development
Filed Under YuperStars
A small team of Spanish teachers are getting together today and May 29th to take a fresh look at the language skills they want students to develop for each grade level, particularly in the Lower and Middle Schools. This is not an easy task and it’s wonderful that they are willing to go the extra mile to make improvements. I found some Illinois State “Foreign Languages Performance Descriptors” that contain many ideas of skills which might comprise this curricular “skeleton” that they are trying to build, as well as ideas for how students might demonstrate those skills in action—”the meat on the bones”.
We are lucky here at Lab. Teachers have a lot of freedom to decide HOW they reach any particular curricular objective; the task of this small group is to agree on exactly WHAT those objectives should be for each grade level, particularly 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, I believe.
