This summer, I found this path to proficiency poster on pinterest thanks to the SCS World Language program and I am going to start school showing the students the target instead of waiting until the final exam. Click here for link to this poster.
On the first day of school I have the students write down anything they can say in the target language on a piece of paper. I collect them and score them on the rubric. Most students are novice low. At the end of the year I do the same thing, ask them to write about themselves and score their papers with the same rubric.. Most students can write on a variety of topics to land between novice high and intermediate low. This becomes evidence of student growth for my evaluation and the students are impressed by how much they have learned.
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Bonour!
Would you be willing to share your scoring rubric you use that you mentioned above (just under the path to proficiency graphic)?
Merci,
Rebecca
Click on the words Jefferson County Public Schools and it will take you to the link with the Rubric.