Communication and multilingual
Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
What is interpersonal communication
Learners build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.
Making Connections
Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied
What is relating cultural practices to perspectives
This is essential for multilingual learners' preparation for college, career and civic lives.
Equity of opportunity and access
The desired results of language instruction; the overarching knowledge and skills, content, and context that drive instruction.
What are goals
Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
What is interpretive communication
Learners access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its cultures
Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives
Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied
What is relating cultural products to perspectives
Academic content is the context for language learning, and language is the means for learning academic content.
Integration of content and language
Descriptions of knowledge and abilities that all students should acquire as they progress through the language sequence for the goals.
What are standards?
Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapt- ing to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Presentational communication
Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
What is language comparison?
Learners communicate and interact with cultural competence in order to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world
What is goal of communities?
Stakeholders share responsibility for educating multilingual learners.
Collaboration among stakeholders
Descriptions of what students can do consistently in the target language over time, as a result of instruction, to meet the Communications and Cultures standards.
What are performance indicators?
14% of students
What percentage of students have been identified as English Learners (ELs) over the past five years?
Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
What are cultural comparisons?
Learners set goals and reflect on their progress in using languages for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.
What is lifelong learning?
This approach helps educators focus on the purposeful use of language.
Functional approach to language development
Examples of observable student outcomes in meeting the Connections, Comparisons, and Communities standards for the Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced proficiency ranges.
What are sample indicators?
Ilokano, Chuukese, Marshallese, Tagalog, and Spanish
What are the top-five languages spoken at home by ELs?
Learners connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations.
What's the goal of connections?
Learners use the language both within and beyond the classroom to interact and collaborate in their community and the globalized world.
What is school and global communities?
Six grade-level clusters (K, 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, 9-12) and six proficiency levels
What are new and different additions in 2020?
Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities goals
and standards
What are the supporting goals and standards?