How are Pathways Activities Formatted?
About the Activities
The activities provided by the Pathways Project serve as interpersonal speaking/signing activities which can be adapted by any language and scaled up or down on the proficiency scale. These activities seek to help students solidify their interpersonal speaking/signing and receptive skills through task-based situations or communicative activities and should be facilitated in the target language, for approximately 90% (or more), per the recommendation of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Activity Format
- We begin by introducing the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements for the activity and complete a Warm-Up. This helps students to prepare for the main activity, boost confidence and transition into the target language.
- Next, we move on to a Main Activity. Time for a linguistic workout! The main activity is focused around tasks (i.e. the provided Can-Do Statements) and challenges students to use and apply what they are learning in class in a spontaneous manner.
- Finally, we move on to a Wrap Up and final review of the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements. The purpose of these final two activities is to help students to self-evaluate their progress on each of the can-do statements and to boost confidence, hopefully ending on a happy note! (In other words, we hope to help students forget about how hard they just worked! 😊)
