World Languages & Multilingual Learner Education
"The sum of human wisdom is not contained within any one language" - Ezra Pound
HIGH SCHOOL
SUPERVISOR OF WORLD LANGUAGES AND MLed, Alma Reyes
Email: areyes@mtsd.us
OUR MISSION is ... to foster life-long learners who have a positive impact on the world by exploring interculturality through discourse about different languages, cultures and real life experiences. Our world languages family promotes acceptance, compassion, respect, equity and social justice. We envision a world of respectful and globally-minded citizens who think critically, embrace diversity and strive to build just societies that are free of fear and hatred of the unknown other.
ESTABLISHED GOALS: STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
CURRICULUM
The curriculum uses the Understanding by Design (UbD) approach and is organized in thematic units to provide meaningful context for academic and cultural content, address national and state standards and assure that students are 21st century college-, careers- and world-ready. We offer English for non-English natives, French, German, Latin and Spanish classes at the High School. Classes meet every other day for 84 minutes.
GRADING PROTOCOL
No one grade shall be worth more than 15% of the marking period grade.
Graded assignments are spaced throughout the semester.
Students earning a grade below 50% on any assignment valued at 10% or more of the semester grade shall:
- Have the opportunity to remediate the grade up to 50%
- Coordinate a remediation opportunity with the course instructor, who has discretion regarding the remediation options for individual students
Grades should be returned and posted within the following time frame:
- Tests/Major assessments within 5 class periods of test date
- Essays/Projects/Research Papers within 8 class periods of due date
- Quizzes prior to the summative assessment
PROGRESSION OF STUDY
Sequence and common Course Progressions
Details in the Montgomery High School Program of Studies and on the MHS World Languages Webpage
FACULTY