Sunday, June 19, 2016

Assignment 3A-MAT 675

Project-Based Learning PBL
Traveling to the Spanish speaking countries during Multicultural Week for 5G



California Common Core State Standards: ((World language content standards for CA)


Standard 1.3.  Identify cultural borrowings. Standard 2.1: Practices of Culture
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. 
Standard 2.2: Products of Culture
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied. 
Standard 3.1: Making Connections
Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language. 
Standard 3.2: Acquiring Information
Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. 
Standard 4.1. Demonstrate culturally appropriate use of products, practices and perspectives to others.

Objectives:




Learning Goals:

Students will work in collaborative groups to research information about the physical geography, climate, and culture of Spanish speaking countries.

Students will create a product that demonstrates their knowledge of Spanish speaking countries.

Students will be able to describe the geography, climate, and culture of Spanish speaking countries in a presentation of their product.

Instructional Plan for Active Learning and Engagement Strategies:

Students will be put into groups and have the opportunity to select a Spanish speaking country to work on it.

Each group will work on the Spanish speaking that they selected and research information about it.

Groups will put together their findings in a presentation for the class as their audience during Multicultural week.

The groups are free to use different ways for the presentation.  Boards, power points, bring food or a dance.
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Reflection
            Project-Based Learning helps students to apply everything they learn into real-life experiences.  In addition, PBL provides the opportunity to students to work together and find answers on their own.  I found this activity I chose to be engaging because it involved learning about others’ culture, technology and more.  There is not a secret that most of the students think reading is boring; therefore this kind of activity is helping them to learn while they are having fun.  The main goals of Project-Based Learning is critical thinking, collaboration, and communication and I feel that this project help students to do all of those things.  It also allows students to have the free range of displaying their different talents with a variety of programs.




References
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1986. Proficiency Guidelines. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. http://www.actfl.org/publications/guidelines-and-manuals/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2013). NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements Progress Indicators for Language Learners.http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Can-Do_Statements.pdf
 National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project. 1999. Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the Twenty-First Century. Yonkers, NY: National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project.
National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project (NSFLEP). (2013). Worldreadiness standards for foreign language learning. Alexandria, VA: Author. Retrieved from the ACTFL website. http://www.actfl.org/publications/all/world-readinessstandards-learning-languages

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