On the following pages, facilitators will find the Syllabus and Daily Planner. This is provided in order to give you an overview of the German III class for the year. Please copy these pages and post them in a conspicuous place. In this way everyone can keep track of the progress the class is making. Although great care was given to make it as complete as possible, changes may be necessary as the year progresses. These changes or more detailed explanations will be posted regularly on the German 3 web page.
Please also note that all assignments have not been given. This allows the course to remain flexible and accommodate special circumstances and events as they may arise. Assignments will be posted on the web a week in advance. Please remind students to check the site daily and record their assignments on the Lesson and Assignment Sheet found in the Student Guide and in the Forms section of the binder.
A Supplemental Activity Packet is provided on the German web page for schools to use on days when you have extra time.
Explanation of Terms:
Date of lesson: This column has been purposely left blank so that facilitators may enter the date that their site watches the video lesson. This will keep a daily record of the lessons viewed and provides a reminder of where to continue in case there is an interruption in a school's calendar.
Day: German III from KET provides 179 days of instruction a year long course (87 days for a one semester block course). This column numbers the instructional days from 1 through 179.
Video lesson: The "FS" in this column abbreviates the German word "Fernsehstunde." It is the video lesson that the students watch on a regular basis. At the beginning, and at the end of the school semester, a video lesson is assigned to 5 instructional days a week. However, once telephone lessons begin, students will watch a video lesson approximately 3 days a week (5 days for block), and participate in a telephone lesson two days of the week (three days for block). KET will assign the days for the telephone lessons after a master schedule has been created. A running time is printed for each video lesson.
Content: The information in this column provides the German title of the video lesson ("Fernsehstunde") and gives a brief idea of the content of the lesson.
Optional: In the content column, some lessons are designated as "optional." This indicates that the students will not be tested on this information. The material covered in these lessons is still important to the course as a whole; however, if a school's schedule demands that a lesson be skipped, these lessons can be covered at another time during the school term.
Graded item: An "X" in this column indicates that during the lesson for that day a graded assignment was given. These graded assignments include quizzes, tests, essays or compositions, and projects. Generally, quizzes are taken on-line and scores entered automatically into the electronic grade book. Essays, compositions, and projects are sent to KET for grading. With a few exceptions, tests are also sent to KET for grading. The "X" in the column is a reminder that the assignment needs to be graded or sent to KET for grading. PLEASE NOTE: In addition to these graded assignments, facilitators are required to give a "Class Participation Grade" about every 2 weeks. Dates and assignment summaries for these grades will be posted on the web.
Date item entered/sent: As facilitators grade and enter the scores for the assignments graded at the site into the electronic grade book, they are asked to record the date in this column. For assignments sent to KET, they are asked to record the date the item was mailed. This will help in keeping track of when assignments are completed and graded.
Telephone lessons: The lessons numbered in this column indicate when a telephone lesson is conducted. After the first 10 video lessons, the telephone lesson is coupled with a numbered video lesson. This corresponds to the days that schools are assigned to take a telephone lesson or watch a video. The "FS+number" shows which video lessons the telephone lesson covers.
Comments: Important reminders to students and facilitators about special assignments or projects, as well as when it is time to give a class participation grade.
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