Preparing for Standards-Based Curriculum Planning

The Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (OBEWL) of the New York State Education Department (NYSED) presents this next webinar in its 2022 Professional Learning Series:  Preparing for Standards-Based Curriculum Planning.  This online workshop is offered free of charge for world language educators and administrators working and studying in New York State educational institutions.

Original webinar date & time:  Thursday, May 19th, 2022, 4:00—5:00 p.m.

Webinar description:  Vertical and horizontal curriculum alignment is critical to helping learners make continuous growth in proficiency. Intentional sequencing of rich thematic units creates learning experiences that are relevant to learners’ interests and appropriate to checkpoint proficiency targets. Vertical articulation spirals proficiency development and recycles and reinforces high-frequency vocabulary and grammatical structures. In this session, participants will examine templates to help analyze and sequence thematic units across the checkpoints. Presenters will also demonstrate tools that can be used to assess how well the curriculum addresses the revised NYS Learning Standards for World Languages, their embedded language functions, and NYS World Language themes and topics.

Link to webinar flyer

Link to Handouts folder from webinar

Link to recording of webinar

Link to post-assessments

To receive a certificate of completion (including a CTLE certificate), NYS educators must view the recording of the webinar (see link above) in its entirety and then answer at least seven out of ten questions correctly on the post assessment.  If the minimum required score (7 out of 10) is achieved, the educator will receive a certificate via email within an hour.  For the convenience of our World Language educators, there are multiple versions of the post assessment available, should the required score not be achieved on the first attempt.  Educators may take each version of the post assessment once.

Important notes:

• Educators may take each version of the post assessment once.  Credit will not be given for taking a single version of the post assessment more than once. 
• Credit will not be given for more than one passing score on any of the post assessments for a webinar (listed below) in a single academic year.  
• Educators may receive credit for viewing the webinar recording and passing a post assessment once in each academic year and are encouraged to take a different version of the post assessment on a yearly basis to review and test their knowledge of the webinar's content. 
• It is the responsibility of the individual educator to keep track of the information on the professional learning they complete each year, including the number of CTLE hours.
• Questions about this webinar or the post assessments, should be directed to Candace Black at (585) 356-0951 or at candace.black@nysed.gov.
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Webinar Summary

# of attendees:  358
# of CTLE certificates issued:  285
# of certificates of attendance issued: 73
# of organizations represented by attendees: 193

• 162 district schools
• 5 charter schools
• 8 non-public schools
• 4 colleges or universities
• 5 BOCES or RBERNs
• 2 government agencies

Webinar presenters

Dr. Joanne O'Toole is a Professor of Modern Language Education in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at SUNY Oswego. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the NYSED World Languages Content Advisory Panel and the Principal Investigator of the NYS World Language Standards Initiative. Joanne has served in several world language leadership positions including NYSAFLT President and NECTFL Director, and is a regular presenter at national, regional, state, and local conferences. Joanne is a certified teacher of Spanish and taught Spanish for 16 years prior to entering post-secondary education.