Building CBS Units and Curriculum Maps
The mountaintop of professional development – creating your own culture units and how to use them to build a solid curriculum base. Your student will develop language proficiency and be more knowledgeable global citizens!
Empower teachers with the knowledge of how to build course curricula and program sequences using original CBS units.
An Interactive Mini Lecture (IML) is a strategy to teach topics like geographical facts, the sequence of historical events, biographical information, diverse perspectives of a social issue, etc. Days One, Two and Three in-services focus on bringing meaning to a new language via “comprehensible input”. This in-service adds the dimension of using meaningful content (nonfiction information, authentic stories, songs, works of art…) as the foundation of language lessons and units. Explore how to build a course curriculum or program sequence
The presentation is designed for teachers with at least a basic understanding of CBS (Content-Based Storytelling) or TPRS (Teaching for Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling).
Experience
- Walk through of model unit outlines
- Small group practice of “interactive mini lecture” techniques
- Guidance while planning your own culture-based TPRS lesson
Reflect
- How do the model lessons illustrate the ACTFL Standards and the Understanding by Design curriculum framework?
- What aspect of these is calling you to investigate it further?
Analyze
- Where does “backward design” lead student learning?
- How can a complex cultural topic be pared down to the absolute essential learning(s)? What is at the very core of the concept?
- Why is it an important topic of study?
Integrate
- What culture topics in the present curriculum could be renovated by using the Understanding by Design framework and TPRS techniques?
- What culture topics not in the current curriculum could be taught using the Understanding by Design framework and TPRS techniques?
- How can these concepts be approached in beginning, intermediate and advanced language levels?
