Spring 2016 Workshop
Theme: Maximizing Students’ Performance: Interculturality and Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)
Speaker: Dr. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, California State University, Monterey Bay
Date: Sunday, April 24th, 2016
Time: 9:30AM-4:00PM (Registration starts at 9:00AM)
Location: Notre Dame High School (13645 Riverside Drive, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
Workshop Presentation Summary by Dr. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott
How can we maximize students’ performance? The presenter will address ways to inspire and motivate through IPA emphasizing interculturality to engage students and assess students’ performance using real-world tasks that are meaningful to students. How can we transform classrooms and curriculum to meet the demands of the 21st Century? What do we need to consider for effectively implementing IPA in teaching? The presenter shares ways to implement IPA in a “backward design” model in which learners understand the criteria and standards for real-world tasks.
Brief Biography of Dr. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott
Yoshiko Saito-Abbott is Full Professor and Chair of the School of World Languages and Cultures at California State University, Monterey Bay. She has also served as the Director of Monterey Bay World Language Project for 19 years, providing professional development programs for world language teachers in the tri-county area of California’s central coast. She received her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education at The Ohio State University. She teaches alllevels of Japanese language and culture courses including Service Learning, Business Japanese and the Capstone course. Dr. Saito-Abbott currently serves as the President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, is an Editorial Board member of Foreign Language Annals, and an advisor of the Japanese Language Education Assistant Program as part of the US-Japan Youth Exchange Program. She has served on many regional and national committees and boards, including the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers; Association of Teachers of Japanese; President of American Educational Research Association Research SIG; Advanced Placement (AP) Japanese College Board Advisor; AP Japanese and Culture Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee (CDAC), and World CDAC committee for the College Board. She has given numerous presentations, workshops, and keynote addresses and has published many articles.
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9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:45 Greetings and Announcements
9:45-10:00 Morning Session:
Activity and Sharing
10:00-10:45 Performance-Based Assessment and Exploring Engaging Formative Assessments
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Performance-Based Assessment and Exploring Engaging Formative Assessments (continued)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Afternoon Session:
Integrated Performance Assessment: Summative Assessment
Evaluating Rubrics
Creating Summative and Formative Assessment Tasks
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Integrated Performance Assessment: Summative Assessment
Evaluating Rubrics
Creating Summative and Formative Assessment Tasks (continued)
3:00-3:30 Sharing
3:30-4:00 Evaluation and Closing Remarks
*Note: This schedule is subject to change.
