1. Curriculum Committee Meeting
March 23, 2013

4. So WHY are you here?
• Meetings with Jason Glass and
Department of Ed, re. representation for
WL
• Desire for bottom up change
• Needing our members to be informed of
best practices in curriculum nationally
and internationally
• Wanting a variety of input, a variety of
levels and areas of expertise
• Wanting an IOWA WL curriculum that
builds off work of others

5. If not us,
then who?
If not now,
then when?

6. OUR VISION
Create and implement an IOWA WL
Curriculum that focuses on:
• Student learning outcomes,
• Core standards (that pertain to what we do),
• Intercultural skills and cultural analysis,
• Applied language and performance based
tasks
This culminates in a Language portfolio for K-
16 with assessment build in and designed to
improve student learning.

7. • We know that these elements exist
already in other states and parts of the
world.
• Elements already exist in our classrooms,
so we are not starting over, only being
more purposeful.

8. Two year process
YEAR-ONE:
• Discussions and work on:
– Guide to goal setting
– Student self-assessment
– Helping students reflect and strategize
– Authentic performance tasks
– How to make goals central to the curriculum

9. YEAR TWO:
• Active inclusion in our own classrooms
• Collaborative discussions about what is
working and what is not.
AT THE END OF YEAR TWO:
• Refine curriculum and introduce to our
members (conference presentations, Regional
presentations, webinars etc.)