Backward Design for World Languages.
Teachers can plan a Spanish unit backward from a transfer goal plus an essential question plus three or four ACTFL Can-Dos, write the acceptable evidence as a three-mode IPA, and lay out daily learning experiences against the WHERETO checklist.
- Level
- Novice Mid
- Type
- Methodology Pack
- Pages
- 17
- Modes
- Interpretive · Interpersonal · Presentational
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Every product ships in two versions. Print the branded edition for classroom use. Open the editable plain edition in Google Docs or Word and rebuild it your way. No logo, no brand colors, no fonts to fight. Your students never have to know it came from us.
Branded edition
Print-ready PDF and editable Google Slides. Magazine-style typography, hero photography, our brand colors. The showcase version your students see.
- ·Print-ready PDF (Letter, EN + ES)
- ·Google Slides (16:9, editable text)
- ·Hero photography + brand design
- ·Fraunces + Source Serif typography
Editable plain edition
Word doc and PowerPoint with no logos, no brand fonts, no colors. Drop into Google Drive, open with Docs or Slides, edit anything. The workshop version your students never see came from us.
- ·Microsoft Word (.docx, EN + ES)
- ·PowerPoint (.pptx, plain theme)
- ·Times New Roman + Calibri, black on white
- ·Google Docs + Slides ready, fully editable
17 pages, page-by-page.
Wiggins & McTighe's Understanding by Design framework, translated for World Languages. The pack teaches the 3-stage framework (desired results, acceptable evidence, learning experiences) and ships six full unit templates ready to drop into your year, at Novice Mid through Pre-Advanced. Includes the UbD-to-WL vocabulary map (transfer goals as ACTFL Performance Descriptor outcomes, essential questions worth six weeks, IPA as the Stage 2 default), the WHERETO learning-plan quality check, the Six Facets of Understanding each mapped to a concrete Spanish task, a 10-question textbook-chapter-vs-transfer-goal audit protocol, and a paired heritage Stage 1 plan so a mixed L2-and-heritage classroom can run differentiation by transfer goal, not just differentiation by task difficulty. Polished 17-page PDF plus editable Word + Slides scaffolds. Use across the year on one unit per semester until your scope and sequence stops resembling a textbook table of contents and starts resembling a transfer-goal map.
- 01TeacherCover
- 02TeacherTeacher Overview + 17-page contents
- 03TeacherHow to Use This Pack · UbD for WL in 1 page
- 04TeacherThe UbD Framework · 3 stages (Wiggins & McTighe 2005)
- 05TeacherUbD Translation for World Languages · vocabulary map
- 06TeacherStage 1 · Transfer goals, EQs, Can-Dos
- 07TeacherStage 2 · Acceptable evidence (IPA as default)
- 08TeacherStage 3 · WHERETO learning plan
- 09TeacherSix Facets of Understanding · each translated to a Spanish task
- 10TeacherTextbook-Chapter-vs-Transfer-Goal Audit · 10-question protocol
- 11TeacherTemplate 1 · Novice Mid · La familia
- 12TeacherTemplate 2 · Novice High · Los pasatiempos
- 13TeacherTemplate 3 · Intermediate Low · Los viajes
- 14TeacherTemplate 4 · Intermediate Mid · El medio ambiente
- 15TeacherTemplate 5 · Intermediate High · Las redes sociales
- 16TeacherTemplate 6 · Pre-Advanced · Los desafíos mundiales
- 17TeacherHeritage paired Stage 1 · differentiation by transfer goal
Why this works.
The 3-stage UbD framework. The pack follows the terminology exactly with WL translation.
Unit-template architecture, adapted to six ACTFL-level templates.
Stage 1 transfer goals are written against the 5 ACTFL goal areas. Most textbook chapters cover one; UbD-designed units cover all five.
Stage 2 evidence anchored to specific Performance levels. Performance vs Proficiency distinction.
The IPA as the default Stage 2 evidence in our discipline.
Analytic-rubric architecture for Stage 2.
Where focus-on-form instruction belongs in a UbD-with-IPA unit.
Heritage learners' transfer goal differs from the L2 learner's; the paired Stage 1 honors that.
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