Brighton High School

CE 2010/ENG 12b Final Project

Name: Damir Krizanovic Title of Plan: Language Learning Improvement

Action Plan

Goal: To improve the language course and curriculum in Brighton High School.

Objectives:
1. Improving the learning activities on how to speak/use the language instead of just focusing on grammar and rules, so
students can learn more .

2. Provide students with a more immersive learning environment in the class. Perhaps we can structure it like a dual
immersion class.

3. I will show this evidence to the district and hopefully they will want to improve their courses. I will use my experience and I
will compare it to experiences from students who live in other nations.

Objective 1: The students need to learn how to speak/use the language instead of just focusing on grammar and rules.
Implementation Evaluation

What evidence indicates How and when will

What needs to be done? By whom and when? What resources?
success? evidence be gathered?

The whole curriculum
needs to adapt and so do
teachers. For example the
students should be
encouraged to use what
they learned in class in a
real world situation
instead of only using it in
class.
Objective 2: Provide students with more immersive learning.
What needs to be done?
Maybe we can make the
class environment feel
like we are in a country
that speaks the language
I feel if The teachers gave
the students are learning
more homework it could
natively. For example a lot
benefit the students.
of great hockey players
Learning a language 5
come from Canada or
hours a week for one
nordic countries because
trimester is not going to
it is cold and the
be enough. The students
atmosphere is great for
need to do it on their own
the sport. But in the
time if they wish to learn..
middle east there are not
It needs to be done as
many great hockey
soon as possible. I believe
players because it is not
this effect can take place
reflected in the culture or
next year. Tom Sherwood
atmosphere. I am saying
would be a good person to
that when you put
propose these ideas to.
students in an
atmosphere of a Spanish
speaking nation it will be
easy for them to learn.
Implementation
By whom and when? What resources?
If you look at European
countries, a lot of
Ask students around the
European citizens can
globe how their language
speak a second language
learning resources are at
due to their schooling
their schools. I will look
being more focused and
on social media to find
having more
kids from around the
opportunities to use the
world who took a second
language. I feel like this is
language and see how
due to the fact that
their curriculum
Europe’s geography is in
compares.
close proximity to other
countries.
Evaluation
What evidence indicates How and when will
success? evidence be gathered?
 Perhaps we can learn
The students need to from European schools
change their attitudes. A The administration needs who have a greater
lot of them only learn a to make it harder on the success rate. According to
The world is 43%
second language to get a students so they actually Pew Research center 92%
bilingual, only 21% of
better diploma. That's learn. They need to give of E.U citizens are
Americans are bilingual
why so many students students harder work and learning a language in
and that is including kids
forget everything they more homework. school, while only 20% of
who have immigrant or
were taught. The course Learning a second Americans are learning a
refugee parents, so a lot of
needs to be more strict language is a commitment language in school. I asked Ask students who are
bilingual kids never
and effective. A good way it takes a lot of time to get my cousins who can both bilingual how they
learned the language they
to persuade students is good at. Diversifying the speak English fluently and learned another language.
have known in their lives
showing them that you ways to learn would they learned it at school in What methods did they
from their parents
have more opportunities benefit a lot of students. Germany. In Germany use to learn?
speaking to them.
when you know a second what works well for one they would pretend to be
According to The Atlantic
language. Also convincing student may not work for in an English market and
only 1% of Americans
them that they can watch another student. The buy things, they would
who studied a language in
more movies and shows classes need to add other also pretend to be at a
high school can actually
in different languages as ways to learn like flash cafe, and a server would
speak that language.
well as being able to cards or speaking tests come and speak English to
communicate with more etc. them. These are real
people around the world. world situations and they
are preparing you for that.

Objective 3: I will show this evidence to the district and hopefully they will want to improve their courses.
Implementation Evaluation

What evidence indicates How and when will

What needs to be done? By whom and when? What resources?
success? evidence be gathered?
 This evidence will be
I will ask students at the
I will use a pie chart to gathered by asking
school who took a If more than 50% of the
show the district how students if they can
language course, and see I will start asking students students can speak the
effective their courses are. actually speak the
if they actually on Tuesday. language that they
I will also record all of the language they learned and
learned/remember learned in school.
students' answers. I will calculate what
anything.
percentage actually can.