In this session, educators will dig into why and how to reverse-engineer learning outcomes, starting from desired proficiency levels and working backwards to create effective and engaging units from summative assessment to daily activities. Participants will gain practical strategies for aligning assessments, routine-focused activities, and resources with proficiency goals, ensuring student engagement and mastery while minimizing teacher workload.
Presenter: Elisa Kirschhoffer, M.Ed.
Elisa has taught in high school and college classrooms in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and most recently taught French and Spanish at Souhegan High School in Amherst, New Hampshire.
She has considerable experience converting the traditional grammar-focused textbook-style classroom to an authentic, acquisition driven and proficiency-based experience both in instruction and assessment. Elisa has received oral proficiency (OPI) training through ACTFL and has worked with authentic resource integration experts to bring the most immersive experience possible into the language classroom. Certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Elisa is extraordinarily devoted to the whole student, promoting wellness and mindfulness in her practice by developing relationships with her students based on their individual needs.
Elisa currently teaches graduate-level courses with Idioma Education, focusing on topics including comprehensible input through novice-level novels, grammar in context using the PACE model, social justice and social and emotional learning. Elisa has presented about backward design, social and emotional learning and differentiation at several regional conferences, and has worked with school districts to design culturally-driven authentic resource and proficiency-based curriculum aligned to the 2021 Massachusetts World Language Frameworks and 2024 ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
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