Cleveland Mandarin Immersion Program Night

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Cleveland Mandarin Immersion Program Night

• October 26th, 2009

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Outline of Presentation

• Where are we going?
• Where are we now?
• How do we get there?
• Q and A

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Where Are We Going?

• Targeted Outcomes

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Creating Global Professionals

• Professionally useful language skills
• Strong academic or professional training

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Goals

• Develop Flagship-ready high school graduates
• Move all students toward Advanced Proficiency
• Develop critical and reflective thinking skills
  in the target language and culture
• Promote long-term appreciation toward Chinese
  culture and language

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ACTFLProficiency Guidelines
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ACTFL GuidelinesThe Advanced Level speaker must
be able to

• Converse in a clearly participatory fashion.
• Initiate, sustain, and bring to closure a wide
  variety of communicative tasks, including those
  that require an increased ability to convey
  meaning with diverse language strategies due to a
  complication or an unforeseen turn of events.
• Satisfy the requirements of school and work
  situations.
• Narrate and describe with paragraph-length
  connected discourse.

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Developing Proficiency in Chinese

• Category 4 language (Chinese, Japanese, and
  Arabic)
• Motivated Adult takes 63 weeks, 6.5 hours a day,
  5 days a week to achieve Advanced Level (Defense
  Language Institute)

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Targeted Outcomes for PPS K-12 Mandarin Immersion
Program

• 12th Grade Advanced Level
• 8th Grade Int. Mid to Int. High
• 5th Grade Novice High to Int. Low

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Where Are We Now?

• Sharing Data
• Recent Developments

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What Our Students Can Do

• Interview with President.mov

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8th Grade Writing
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8th Grade Speaking
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8th HS (9th 10th)Reading
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9th Grade Listening
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Conclusions

• HS listening proficiency is extraordinary.
• HS reading proficiency is approaching
  satisfactory.
• 8th grade speaking is solid.
• 8th grade writing is solid.
• 8th grade reading is an issue.
• Low performing students are an issue.

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How Do We Get There?Moving from Intermediate
toAdvanced

• Curriculum Instruction

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Technology-Mediated Online Courses

• Provide opportunity for 2 courses per year
• Utilize Web 2.0 technology
• Multiple teachers
• Individualized instruction
• Independent learning
• Flexible classroom hours study times

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Proposed Courses 2010-2011
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Nancy Yangs Class

• Goals    Increase students desire to learn
  Chinese   Help each student individually to
  improve one ACTFL sub-level
•   Improve students ability to use Chinese in
  real-life situations

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Teaching Materials

• Authentic Materials
• Any material that is intended for a native
  speaking audience

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Teaching Materials
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Teacher Training

• OPI Training
• STAMP Rater Training
• Formative Assessment
• On-line Course Development
• Data Dialogue
• On-going Curriculum Development

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Self-Assessment

• LinguaFolio Online Portfolio
• Continuous self-evaluation of language abilities
• Based on ACTFL proficiency standards
• Individualized goal-setting
• Facilitates independent learning
• Monitored by teacher

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Experiential Learning Opportunities

• Community-Based Language Learning
• National Security Language Initiative for Youth
  Individual Applications Dec 4th, 2009
• Suzhou Cleveland HS Student Exchange
• Potential Summer Offerings
• Local Summer Program (Tentative)
• Overseas China Abroad (Tentative)

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Communication

• Three Informational Meetings annually
  (January/May)
• Quarterly newsletters
• Parent liaisons for each grade
• Individual issues
• Nancy Yang (nyang_at_pps.k12.or.us)
• Kelly Lu (klu_at_pps.k12.or.us)
• Kojo Hakam (dhakam_at_pps.k12.or.us)
• Michael Bacon (mbacon_at_pps.k12.or.us)

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What You Can Do!

• Significant overseas experience
• Chinese-friendly computer
• Tutoring/language exchange partner
• Chinese-only hour/day
• Exploit interests/hobbies
• - On-line resources
• - Movies and TV dramas
• - Pop music

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Questions?