EL Civics Curriculum San Diego Continuing

Education

EL Civics ConferenceJanuary 24, 2014

Jan Forstrom

We develop all our own curriculum; most objectives are Option 2

Curriculum is designed to meet student needs, program needs and CASAS requirements

All curriculum is specific to levels◦1 booklet per level◦Some objectives have 6 booklets◦Some objectives only serve one or two levels

EL Civics Curriculum at SDCE

Affords outside examiner for level completion oral assessments

Allows teachers to fulfill two requirements at the same time (EL Civics and level completion)

Aligns two important elements of our program, EL Civics and SLO’s

Elevates the rigor of EL Civics curriculum which promotes transition

Aligns EL Civics instruction with ESL course outlines

New Direction: Use EL Civics Assessments for Level Completion

Created to meet needs of level completion assessment

Six levels of booklets/assessment tasks

Includes both oral and written tasks that are appropriate for level completion assessment tools

#11 Cultural Differences

The student will:

◦ Answer questions about a cultural event in a country other than one’s own based on pictures provided by the examiner (BL)

◦ OR

◦Make an oral presentation on a cultural event in a culture other than one’s own (BH-Adv)

#11 Oral Assessment tasks

The student will write about a cultural event in another country: ◦ four sentences (BL)◦ a loosely organized paragraph (BH)◦ a paragraph with topic/concluding sentences (IL)◦a two-paragraph composition (IH)

◦ OR◦ write an essay (Advanced) about an American

cultural value and compare it to a value in another culture in response to articles presented in student booklet

#11 Written Assessment tasks

EL Civics examiners score oral and written tasks for EL Civics purposes

Score oral task thoroughly

Score written task until passing points are reached

Teachers score written task for level completion

EL Civics examiners report scores to teacher for oral task for level completion purposes (Passing requirement for level completion = 70%)

Scoring for EL Civics and Level Completion