Competency Descriptors by Aric Visser https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe en-us 2021-06-04 10:24:25 UTC 2025-03-16 03:30:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1048467197/dbfcd42eede87d2f59b9c839130a8e36/logojpg.jpg Questions： https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595760700 Breakout #1 - Departmental competencies and IC focus

* What competencies are related to IC makes sense for the Hotchkiss Language Department?
* Write and share original competencies based on the
structures discussed and examples provided.

]]> 2021-06-09 13:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595760700 https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595765442 Content knowledge]]> 2021-06-09 13:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595765442 Shifting perspective https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595766559 Flexibility
Empathy]]> 2021-06-09 13:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595766559 Understanding relation between products and perspectives (ACTFL) https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595768609 2021-06-09 13:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595768609 Developing cultural self-awareness https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595773051 Cultural comparisons

]]> 2021-06-09 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595773051 Global awareness https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595778079 World geography
World history
Current events


]]> 2021-06-09 13:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595778079 Hi! We're working https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595788733 2021-06-09 13:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595788733 Developing empathy https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595790546 2021-06-09 13:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595790546 Content Knowledge https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595791337 2021-06-09 13:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595791337 Communicate and empathize with people living in areas of the world that are culturally different from their own. https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595800142 2021-06-09 13:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595800142 Recognize Perspectives https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595806614 2021-06-09 13:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595806614 Geography https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595808162 2021-06-09 13:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595808162 Common features of IC and ACTFL standards： https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595808955 Cultures, Connections, Comparaisons, Communities

]]> 2021-06-09 13:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595808955 Begin to ask questions regarding perspectives that do not necessarily align with our own https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595810259 2021-06-09 13:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595810259 How does one’s identity evolve over time? https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595814132 How does language
shape our cultural
identity?
How does technology
influence the
development of
personal and public
identity?
Building Course Skills
Students continue to build interpretive skills through
engaging with literary texts, articles, charts, and audio
reports. Building on skills developed in Unit 1, students
enhance their skills in:
§ identifying perspectives
§ comprehending vocabulary in context
§ summarizing content in narrative form
§ making interdisciplinary and cultural connections
Practice in the interpretive mode prepares students to
engage in the presentational mode:
§ Students build skills in understanding content and
building academic vocabulary needed for writing an
argumentative essay by listening to and discussing audio
reports, interpreting data and cultural trends from a visual
text, and reading and discussing articles.
§ Students demonstrate their ability to express their own
viewpoints and support them with textual evidence by
writing a thesis statement and selecting relevant evidence.
7.D.2: Compare features (including products, practices, and
perspectives) of target cultural communities to those of the
student’s own community in spoken presentations.
What role do individuals
play in addressing
complex societal
issues?
How do environmental,
political, and societal
challenges positively
and negatively impact
communities?
How do challenging
issues affect a society’s
culture?

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]]> 2021-06-09 14:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595825241 Media literacy https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595831250 2021-06-09 14:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595831250 Experiential learning https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595833335 2021-06-09 14:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595833335 Recognizing own perspectives/positionality/bias https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595834952 2021-06-09 14:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595834952 Understanding context https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595842659 world events
commonalities b/t our culture and others' culture]]> 2021-06-09 14:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595842659 Critical Thinking https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595846622 2021-06-09 14:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595846622 Problem Solving https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595846978 2021-06-09 14:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595846978 we did start with Content ("They have to learn the language, first") https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595853456 2021-06-09 14:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595853456 I like ACTFL's World-Readiness Standards https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595861181 2021-06-09 14:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595861181 ability to articulate usefulness/reasons to learn https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595863319 2021-06-09 14:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595863319 Constituent elements of intercultural competence https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595863658 2021-06-09 14:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595863658 **A book that may be useful for practicing IC： The Pedagogy of Performing Another Culture, by Gala Walker https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595890583 2021-06-09 14:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aricvisser/p0iop39nxsxpyyqe/wish/1595890583