World Languages & International Education:

Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages

Table of Contents

Foreword

Task Force

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I -- Creating Curriculum

1. Introduction to Wisconsin's Standards for Learning World Languages

   What is the Vision of Wisconsin's Standards for Learning World Languages?

   What Do We Expect Students to Know and Be Able to Do as a Result of Instruction in Another Language?

   Overview to Wisconsin's Standards for Learning World Languages

   What Is the Bridge from Standards to the Classroom?

   Linking Standards-Based Assessment to Curriculum and Instruction

   
   
2. Implications of Standards for Curriculum and Assessment

   A Standards-Based Curriculum: How Can it Help?

   A Mind-Set for Curriculum

   A Mind-Set for Assessment

   Performance Guidelines Linked to Key Questions: Context

   Characteristics of Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational

   Communication: Implications for Assessment

   Characteristics of a Standards-Based Curriculum: A New Basis for Articulation

   
   
3. Creating a Standards-Based Curriculum

   Introduction The Curriculum Design Process

   Implications of a Standards-Based Design in Curriculum Planning: The Mind-Set

   The Process for Developing Units in a Standards-Based Curriculum

   Planning for Instruction

   
   
4. Standards-Based Curriculum Units

   What's Different?

   Sample Templates for Designing Curriculum

   Benchmark Examples of Thematic Content Across Language Levels, K-12: Work and Career Units

   Sample Thematic Curriculum Units: Grouped by Level

   
   

   PART II -- Issues Impacting Instruction

   
   
5. The Role of the Student in a Standards-Based Curriculum

   Instruction Flowing from a Curriculum of Standards-Based Assessment

   Brain-Compatible Learning

   Welcoming Brain-Friendly Learningr

   Tuning Teaching to Learning, Memory, Attention, and Motivation

   The Impact of Threat on Inhibiting Language Acquisition

   The Role of Enrichment in Enhancing Language Acquisition

   Working with the Brain for World Language Acquisition and Learning

   Lesson Planning for Brain-Compatible World Language Acquisition

   
   
6. The Role of Methodology in a Standards-Based Curriculum

   Factors Shaping Language Learning and Teaching Today

   From Theory to Practice

   
   

   PART III -- Issues Impacting Language Programs

   
   
7. Considerations for Building Effective Programs

   Components of High Quality World Language

   Programs

   Practical Considerations

   Characteristics of Effective Foreign Language Instruction

   Program Enrichment Opportunities

   Considerations for Designing Foreign Language in the Elementary

   School (FLES) Programs

   Planning for Success: Common Pitfalls in the Planning of Early

   Foreign Language Programs

   
   
8. Related Issues

   Why Language Learning Matters

   Why Learn Another Language?

   Considerations for Heritage Speakers

   Use of Technology in World Language Instruction

   
   

   PART VI -- Resources

   • Curriculum Planning Template -- Blank
   • Annotated Curriculum Planning Template
   • Key Questions: Thematic Topics
   • Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Foreign Languages
     1. Overview of Foreign Languages
     2. Content and Performance Standards
     3. Wisconsin Performance Guidelines
     4. Sample Student Performance Tasks
   • Language Functions: A Different View of Structures and Vocabulary

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