Basing Assessment on

Standards

• Starting with the end goals in mind

• Creating purposeful tasks

• Balancing assessments

Focusing Standards-based Instruction

• Determine what you want the students to be able to do with the target language.

• Consult the standards and the district’s curriculum.

• Identify appropriate learning scenarios, themes, and content.

• Map out and design an assessment using the IPA template.

• Plan the instructional activities.

Steps to Designing a Standard Based Lesson.

• Authentic, performance based, based on three modes of communication, integrated.

• The cyclical approach of performance assessment units are: – Interpretative Communication phase

– Interpersonal Communication phase and

– Presentational Communication phase. (see pg. 7 for a detail description)

Characteristics of an IPA