PROFICIENCY/SEÑORA LIGHTFOOT

Proficiency refers to:

• What we do in the classroom./Communication we practice    

• The skills that underlie the communication across topics

•   Practice makes perfect.

• all of the above

Mistakes mean that:

• You are a bad student

• You are trying.

• You are not paying attention.

• You don’t want to develop proficiency.

Performance and proficiency  are measured

• by the teacher

• by the world language department

• on the ACTFL Proficiency Scale.

• by a rubric

I use words

• Novice Low

• Novice Mid

• Novice High

• Intermediate 1

  I use words & phrases

• Novice High

• Novice Low

• Intermediate 1

• Novice Mid

I am a paragraph level speaker

• Novice High

• Intermediate 1

• Intermediate 3

• Advanced

I always use sentences when required

• Advanced

• Intermediate 2

• Novice High

• Intermediate 1

I use some single sentences

• Novice Low

• Novice Mid

• Novice High

• Intermediate 1

I use strings of sentences and connectors

• Novice High

• Intermediate 2

• Intermediate 1

• Intermediate 3

 I start using paragraphs & past & future time

• Novice High

• Intermediate 1

• Intermedite 2

• Intermediate 3