Welcome to Camp Musicuentos!

Camp Musicuentos is an intensive curriculum planning workshop designed to help teachers feel more ready for the new school year than they've ever felt before. This space is intended to curate helpful resources and a variety of curriculum maps.

To edit a Google Doc, click FILE and SAVE A COPY to make an editable copy in your own drive. Be sure to click SHARE and change the sharing settings to ANYONE WITH THE LINK CAN VIEW, then copy and paste the link into one of the level pages linked above. As the link text, use a description of your map, such as "Diego's Level 4 Map."
View a tutorial on how to collaborate via Google Drive here.

SLIDESHARE: (Base)Camp Musicuentos 2016

A Very Good Place to Start

• Research-based answers to what your students can realistically accomplish and what motivates them to continue from CASLS at the University of Oregon
• The CASLS "Burning Questions about Second Language Research"
• NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements
• ACTFL Proficiency guidelines 2012
• Musicuentos post #1 on curriculum development outside the textbook: what to do before the school year begins
• Musicuentos post #2 on curriculum development: what to do when the school year starts
• Proficiency posts: Musicuentos Novice High vs. Intermediate Low, #langchat summary Moving Students from Novice Mid to Novice High, #langchat summary 10 Ways to Help Students Move from Novice High to Intermediate Low
• Gianfranco Conti's 11 Questions I Ask Myself Before the Start of a New Academic Year
• What are your proficiency goals?
• Exemplar lesson (with video!) of using a song & a story as comprehensible input: French Kindergarten class discussing Chicken Pox
• Exemplar lesson with CI from TELLProject:
  
• More demo videos from Martina Bex
• Connect with a formally trained TPRS teacher near you

Very Good Places to Stop Re-inventing the Wheel

• Jefferson County (KY) curriculum documents
  also see Megan & Kara's sample questions when starting to plan a unit
• Shelby County (TN) curriculum documents
• The Thompson (CO) district documents (Toni Theisen)
• Musicuentos Unit Planning template
• Langcamp folder of teachers collaborating on curriculum development
• Lisa Shepard's excellent posts on creating a proficiency-based curriculum map and the Ohio guidelines and on what themes she has chosen and why
• Musicuentos post on using the AP themes to develop (intermediate mid-high) units
• RESOURCES AND TEMPLATES from Keys to Planning for Learning (scroll to bottom for templates)
• Musicuentos' collaborative authres document (change language at the bottom)
• DePaul Cristo Rey HS (Michael Delaney) Spanish 3 Curriculum Map / Calendar
• Kara & Melanie's Spanish 1 Curriculum
• Allison's curriculum outlines

When It Comes to Assessment...

• An editable version of my (2015) performance assessment rubric and the VERY in-depth explanatory blog post
• AAPPL rubric links and info
• Colleen Lee-Hayes's rubric tag
• OFLA rubrics
• JCPS (KY) rubrics with explanations (type rubric in the search bar)
• IPA resource page
• ACTFL IPA Interpretive Task Template
• How about trying a "Design Your Own Final Exam"?
• More about Compassionate Assessment: here and here

When It Comes to Lesson Plans...

• Spreadsheet curriculum mapping template
• Amy Lenord's Authentic Lesson Cycle
• STARTALK Lesson planning guide: From Paper to Practice
• Common Curriculum
• Musicuentos Lesson Plan template
• Amy Lenord and Musicuentos versions of a Primacy/Recency lesson plan template
• STARTALK adapted lesson plan document
• Musicuentos Brain Breaks Pinterest board
• WL Recipe4Rigor Tiered Assignments in World Languages wiki
• Brain Break ideas

When It Comes to Resources...

• Music Data base by Sharon Birch http://elmundodebirch.wikispaces.com/Spanish+Music+Database
• Spain-based resource. Songs, news broadcasts, songs . . .http://www.ver-taal.com/
• Musicuentos' collaborative authres document (change language at the bottom)
• Amy Lenord's Pinterest resources (almost 30,000 pins and counting...)

And now...

Click a level to see my suggested themes and our work on curriculum maps.

• Novice - Level 1
• Novice High to Intermediate Low - Level 2
  • Sample Integrated Performance Assessment
• Intermediate Low - Level 3
• Intermediate Low to Intermediate Mid - Level 4
• Spanish for Heritage Speakers
• Advanced Placement

Let's get to work!

Suggestions or questions? Send me a note.