What are the big ideas that you want your students to focus
on for the year?
(Throughlines)
Metalanguage
Understanding goals What will students come to understand during this unit? Think in terms of the stem: Students will understand………….. In addition, writing these as questions is useful. Standards 1- 4 Students will understands some of the ways that communication works and how non-verbal, spoken, written and visual forms carry messages. Standard 5 Students will understands the sophisticated ways in which communications may be varied and combined to fulfil a range of requirements for learning, life and work. |
Performances of understanding What will students do to build and demonstrate their understanding? Learning experiences which will help students to understand and to demonstrate their understanding. Standards 1- 4 Students will enjoy trying out different forms of language and communication. Standard 5 Students will understand the way language works to construct reality and will creatively use communication strategies to foster personal and intercultural understanding across differences |
Ongoing assessment and feedback, and
teacher notes How will you and the students know that they understand? How might you assess learning to give ongoing feedback to improve learning and to evaluate at the end whether understanding goals have been achieved? Standard 1- 4 Students will evidence their understanding by creating new visual vocabulary based on the 70 visual symbols. Standard 5 Students will evidence their understanding and creative use of language by co-constructing text in a visual language that they have collaborated in constructing, with the founder of Earth Language, Yoshiko McFarland (USA) |
(Here brief information about EL and the founder Yoshiko was attached;My Students’ story…
but you can see them through the EL site above and the founder's background section.)