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How will you be assessed?

You will be assessed many times during the year. You will have to competency in all three modes of communication: interpretive(reading/listening/viewing), interpersonal(unrehearsed use of the language between two people in real time conversations), and presentational(producing writing or speaking for an audience in Spanish). Through all of the performance assessments, you should also demonstrate an understanding of global competence (perspectives, practices, and products)

Global competence is the ability to:

1. Communicate in the language of the people with whom one is interacting.
2. Interact with awareness, sensitivity, empathy, and knowledge of the perspectives of others.
3. Withhold judgment, examining one’s own perspectives as similar to or different from the perspectives of people with whom one is interacting.
4. Be alert to cultural differences in situations outside of one’s culture, including noticing cues indicating miscommunication or causing an inappropriate action or response in a situation.
5. Act respectfully according to what is appropriate in the culture and the situation where everyone is not of the same culture or language background, including gestures, expressions, and behaviors.
6. Increase knowledge about the products, practices, and perspectives of other cultures.

Formal Assessments may be based on content knowledge or on proficiency based skills. All CMS benchmarks will include a speaking and writing section which will be assessed using the PALS rubrics for level 1 speaking and writing. These rubrics, and examples of how to use them are linked below.

IB Assessments will also be carried out several times each semester. These assignments will be assessed using the IB rubrics, which are also linked below. Whenever possible, one performance assessment will be graded with both the PALS rubric and the IB rubric and scores will be entered into Powerschool for both types of assessment.