LinguaFolio Leaflet - December 2022/January 2023

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January 5, 2023

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Welcome

Happy 2023! The NCDPI LinguaFolio Team is looking forward to a new year full of sharing about LinguaFolio and its positive impact on language learners.

 

Please peruse the information below and in the LinguaFolio for North Carolina Canvas Hub at bit.ly/LF4NCHub to find out more about this formative assessment tool.

LF Webinars

Professional Development for 2022 - 2023

1st Synchronous Meetup in 2023

Register for January 12 broadcast

There are two optional synchronous meetups planned for educators working on the asynchronous professional development, including the one next week. These sessions are an opportunity to come together as a group and learn from one another about LinguaFolio, ask questions, and share implementation experiences across language learning environments.

 

The live sessions are scheduled from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in WebEx on these dates:

Please click on the hyperlinked date(s) above or go to page 27 in the Professional Learning Booklet for 2022 - 2023 to register for one or both of the synchronous meetups.
LF PD

Professional Learning Booklet 2022 - 2023

The Professional Learning Booklet for 2022 - 2023 is available as a PDF or you can make your own Google copy to participate in this asynchronous learning opportunity, which can be completed throughout the school year.

Participants work at their own pace as they read the information, watch the videos, complete the activities, and submit a survey to receive a certificate of completion worth 10 contact hours.

More details are on the Professional Development page of the LF4NC Canvas Hub and the Apply & Reflect activities from Semester I are already available and linked in the next section.

 

During Semester II, we'll be continuing our professional learning journey with the Introduction to LinguaFolio self-paced Canvas course.

Collaboration & Networking

Let's keep talking about LinguaFolio on the Discussions tab in the #GoOpenNC group, LinguaFolio for North Carolina! Conversations are underway about the PD for 2022 - 2023, and anyone can join us at any time. Here are links to all of the Apply & Reflect discussions:

#GoOpenNC is available to all and the LinguaFolio for North Carolina group discussions are public. When you are ready to respond, you can login with your NCEdCloud account and click "Reply" or, if you're not an NC Public School educator, you can post using the Jamboard for each discussion.

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LF Classroom Materials

Classroom Materials: Intercultural pieces

The next LinguaFolio Biography components we're focusing on this year are the Intercultural Encounter Reflection and the Intercultural Experience Summary. They're available in 13 languages in both PDF and Word versions.

 

The Intercultural Experience Summary helps students write a description about a specific encounter they've had when they were:

  • Taking a formal course in a language
  • Participating in an interaction in the community or through social media
  • Hosting a guest from a partner school, institution, or family
  • Other

The Intercultural Encounter Reflection is a form that asks students to think about a cultural encounter and use guiding questions to write about the experience.

 

Go to the Classroom Materials page of the LF4NC Canvas Hub to find links for English as a Second Language (ESL) and World Languages teachers that will take you to where you can download the LinguaFolio Biography components in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese - and in the format that works best for you and your students.