Resources for Administrators that Support World Language Departments

The Administrator Reference Guide to the Revised NYS Learning Standards for World Languages (2021) - Modern Languages details and illustrates key information about the revised world language learning standards and related concepts and offers administrators practical recommendations for supporting world language educators as they shift their instruction. The guide is sequenced to correspond with the phases of the standards implementation process. The first part, “Planning for Implementation”, provides a brief overview of the standards, an implementation timeline, and recommendations for supporting professional learning and the standards implementation process. The second part, “Standards in Action”, further illustrates the standards and describes what language proficiency looks like at each of the three proficiency Checkpoints. This information will enhance administrators’ ability to understand what they are viewing when observing in a world language classroom or what world language educators are saying when they discuss their practice. There is a supplemental part 2 for Classical Languages that can be downloaded below.  The third part, "Interpreting Standards-Based World Language Teaching, is a set of world language-specific observable criteria that can be used as a complement to locally-adopted teacher evaluation rubrics. 

Administrator Reference Guide (Modern Languages)
Administrator Reference Guide - Part 2:  The Standards in Action (Classical Languages)