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NCLRC Summer Institutes for 2008
The River Inn http://www.theriverinn.com/ has agreed to to provide discounted rates for NCLRC’s summer institute participants. The River Inn is a stylish boutique hotel, conveniently located in the Foggy Bottom Neighborhood on 25th Street between K Street and Virginia Avenue. Interested?
Breaking News! NCLRC's own economic stimulus package has been activated: Deadline extended for early registration for NCLRC Summer Institutes for
World Language Teachers. Registrations received by May 9th are still discounted 20%
BRAIN, LANGUAGE, AND BILINGUALISM
Michael Ullman, Ph.D. (Georgetown University), Catharine Keatley, Ph.D. & Abbe Spokane, M.A.
May 19 - 20 - Cost: $200 / Early: (before 5/1): $150
Teachers interested in mind, memory, language and the brain learn from Dr. Michael Ullman (Georgetown Center for Brain Basis of Cognition), a leading researcher in the brain and bilingualism. Topics include the study of brain and language, a primer for the layman on relevant neuroanatomy, and a review of studies on the brain bases of bilingualism.
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TEACHING ARABIC TO UPPER HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
Mahmoud Al-Batal and Kristin Brusted
May 19-23, 2008 Cost: $500/ Early: (before 5/1): $450
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Appropriate for upper high school and college instructors. Learn about current methods and practices in learner-centered, proficiency-based instruction. Through demonstrations, video, discussion, and interactive activities, participants experience best practices, then integrate them into their own practice by micro-teaching small groups of university students, with coaching and feedback from the presenters.
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DEVELOPING LISTENING COMPREHENSION SKILLS
Joan Rubin, Ph.D.
May 22 - 23 Cost: $200 / Early: (before 5/1): $150
For HS, University and Adult level instructors. Listening comprehension is the most important yet most difficult skill that foreign language learners need. Participants consider how to apply the following knowledge (definition of listening, kinds of listening, proficiency level in listening, and planning for listening) to creating lessons to promote listening comprehension. Using this knowledge, in groups, participants first critique/amend existing listening texts and then create short lessons to develop their students' listening skills.
Scholarship available thanks to co-sponsorship by the GWU Language Center and GW-CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research)
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM EVALUATION WORKSHOP
Margaret Malone, Ph.D (Center for Applied Linguistics)
May 29 - 30 Cost: $200 / Early: (before 5/1): $150
Learn about different approaches to language program evaluation and the basic steps to designing an evaluation. Topics covered include basic principles of planning for an evaluation, including defining expectations for evaluation, collecting data and planning for analysis and reporting. The workshop is intended for programs that are considering conducting a language program evaluation. It will allow individuals who lead language programs to develop an understanding of the planning and implementation process for language program evaluation.
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HOW TO WRITE PROPOSALS TO GET FUNDING FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROJECTS
Anna Uhl Chamot, Ph.D., Catharine Keatley, Ph.D. and Invited guests from government programs
June 9 & 10 Cost: $200 / Early: (before 5/1): $150
Designed to help professors, instructors, administrators, teachers, students, and researchers learn about sources of funding for foreign language projects, this institute shows how to go about writing a proposal. Representatives from government agencies and a foundation speak to the participants about their grant programs and discuss individual project ideas.
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UNPACKING THE STANDARDS: CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE
Jennifer Eddy, Ph.D., (Queens College)
June 23 Cost: $100 / Early: (before 5/1): $80
How do I design a curriculum based on the Standards with performance as the goal? What does performance assessment look like? This institute guides participants through a model protocol, aligning backward design specifically with the ACTFL Standards (5Cs). Instructors, methods faculty, curriculum developers, and K-12 world language administrators learn how to design an articulated, thematic world language curriculum, develop transfer tasks within the communicative modes, and plan instruction with performance in mind. This institute is hands-on and interactive with presentation, examples, and discussion. Participants leave with tools to continue design work or for training of new teachers. (see Dr. Eddy's article here).
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USE FILM CLIPS IN YOUR SPANISH CLASSROOM: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Sheila Cockey, M.A.
June 23 Cost: $100 / Early: (before 5/1): $80
Spanish teachers are guided to view films with an eye toward selecting 3-5 minute clips that can easily be integrated into an existing curriculum. Through examination of a successful film clip website, and application of the principles embodied in the website, participants select a clip from a movie they bring with them, and prepare support materials for use in classrooms.
Scholarship available thanks to co-sponsorship by the GWU Language Center and GW-CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research)
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SPAIN: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: EMBASSY OF SPAIN/NCLRC 3-DAY IMMERSION SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS OF SPANISH.
Embassy of Spain staff, Sheila Cockey, M.A. and Michele Harris-Padron (Guitars in the Classroom)
June 23 - 26 (to 1:00) Cost: $600 single; $500 double. / Early: (before 5/1): $550 single /$450 double
An enjoyable, informative, immersion experience for teachers on Spanish language and culture, and how to teach it. All participants and presenters speak only Spanish for the duration of the Institute. In addition to an Embassy reception, programs include hands-on, interactive presentations, discussions, language and cultural experiences. Evenings focus on sharing of teaching strategies and learning an easy method to play guitar and sing songs in Spanish. Participants may borrow a guitar to take home and play in their class.
The guitar workshops are generously sponsored by Godin Guitars, Dunlop Manufacturing, and The John and Joan D'Addario Foundation. NCLRC thanks them for their outstanding contribution to promoting the arts as an integral part of foreign language study. Participants who take part in these institutes will have the chance to learn to play guitar and then borrow a guitar to be used in the classroom. The organization Guitars in the Classroom http://www.guitarsintheclassroom.com/ is collaborating with NCLRC to provide these workshops and has arranged to provide an instructor and the loan of the guitars.
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ARABIC K-12: HANDS-ON SESSION
Iman Hashem (Occidental College) & Muhammed Eissa (University of Chicago)
June 23 - 27 Cost: $500/ Early: (before 5/1): $450
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Focuses on how to teach Arabic at beginning and intermediate levels to K-12 American students using Arabic as the classroom language. Teachers are guided in developing objectives; planning presentation and practice activities; developing , adapting or choosing materials; planning an evaluation activity; and developing and teaching a lesson in Arabic.
Register - Last day to register: May 22
Please e-mail Startalk Scholarship application forms back to: nclrc@gwu.edu and arabick12@gmail.com
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UNDERSTANDING ASSESSMENT: APPLICATIONS FOR FL TEACHERS
Margaret Malone, Ph.D. (Center for Applied Linguistics)
June 24 Cost: $100/ Early: (before 5/1): $80
Focuses on differences between assessment and testing, distinguishing between various kinds of tests, learning to interpret results, and becoming familiar with choosing tests that fit instruuctors' purposes. Topics covered include the differences among proficiency, achievement, and placement tests; the interpretation of results; and the application of information gained from the test to teaching.
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YOU-TUBE VIDEO AND BEYOND
Richard Robin, Ph.D., (George Washington University)
June 24 - 27 Cost: $400/ Early: (before 5/1): $350
Every language teacher can learn to make foreign language videos for distribution on YouTube. Videos of interviews with native speakers talking about themselves and their world are easy to produce, bringing the language and the culture into the classroom. Once you get the hang of it, send your students out to shoot, interview, edit, and upload original authentic foreign-language material.
Scholarship available thanks to co-sponsorship by the GWU Language Center and GW-CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research)
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CONNECTING LINGUAFOLIO TO CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION FOR DOCUMENTING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Faye Rollings-Carter, Rollings-Carter Consulting, LLC, and Jill Robbins, Ph.D.
June 25 - 26 Cost: $200/ Early: (before 5/1): $150
For language teachers of all levels who want to connect classroom activities to LinguaFolio. Participants also learn how to use LinguaFolio as an ongoing informative assessment. Directed by learners, LinguaFolio is based on the European Language Portfolio (ELP). This institute will give teachers hands-on experience with developing classroom activities connecting daily instruction to LinguaFolio assessment. Participants also explore Linguafolio in an electronic format and develop a timeline and plan for using LinguaFolio with their students.
Scholarship available thanks to co-sponsorship by the GWU Language Center and GW-CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research)
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TEACHING SPANISH TO HERITAGE SPANISH SPEAKERS
Conducted in Spanish by Anna Uhl Chamot, Ph.D. and Héctor M. Enríquez,
(University of Texas, El Paso)
June 26 - 27 Cost: $200/ Early: (before 5/1): $150
Secondary heritage Spanish speakers are fluent in oral Spanish, but vary greatly in their level of literacy. Those with educational gaps need help in developing their reading and writing proficiency and also in grammar and academic and literary vocabulary. Practical, research-based activities for high school Hispanic students demonstrate ways to teach literary concepts, language skills, and learning strategies for reading comprehension and writing in Spanish. Ways to differentiate instruction in mixed literacy level classes are suggested.
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STRUM, THROW, AND PERFORM: INTEGRATING ARTS INTHE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Michelle Harris-Pedron, of Guitars in the Classrooms (GITC), Cynthia Weill, author, educator, and art historian, and Susan Brickell, Rutgers University & Marlboro Township, NJ Public Schools.
June 26 - 27 Cost: $200/ Early: (before 5/1): $150
Music (strumming guitars), Visual Arts (throwing clay), and Theater (improv) are combined in this institute to provide World Language teachers with ideas for activities that will expand their students’ imaginations, engage them in learning about the target culture, and motivate them to communicate meaning through artistic expression while using their target language.
The guitar workshops are generously sponsored by Godin Guitars, Dunlop Manufacturing, and The John and Joan D'Addario Foundation. NCLRC thanks them for their outstanding contribution to promoting the arts as an integral part of foreign language study. Participants who take part in these institutes will have the chance to learn to play guitar and then borrow a guitar to be used in the classroom. The organization Guitars in the Classroom http://www.guitarsintheclassroom.com/ is collaborating with NCLRC to provide these workshops and has arranged to provide an instructor and the loan of the guitars.
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WRITING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ARABIC CURRICULUM K-12
Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa (University of Chicago), and Christine Brown (Glastonbury Public Schools)
June 28 - July 3 Cost: $400 / Early: (before 5/1): $350
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Are you developing or adapting a curriculum for your Arabic K-12 language program? This workshop is for participants who are interested in developing and/or improving their curriculum. Beginning, and more experienced, teachers and curriculum developers can participate and share curricular materials. Basic concepts of curriculum development are reviewed and leaders work with small groups to help develop and refine participants' curricula.
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Please e-mail Startalk Scholarship application forms back to: nclrc@gwu.edu and arabick12@gmail.com
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LA CULTURE, C'EST PLUS QUE DES PHOTOS DE VOYAGES, DES MONUMENTS ET DES RECETTES DE CUISINE
Marcel LaVergne Ed.D (Boston University)
June 30 Cost: $100/ Early: (before 5/1): $80
Le professeur de français a souvent de la difficulté à intégrer l'enseignement de la culture dans ses leçons de français. C'est parce que la culture est souvent traitée comme sujet à part, avec le vocabulaire et la grammaire. Ce cours propose de donner au professeur les moyens d'incorporer et la langue et la culture de sorte que celles-ci soient intimement liées. On découvrira ce qu'il y a de culturel dans le vocabulaire, la grammaire, et la lecture en accord avec les Standards Nationaux pour l'enseignement des langues étrangères. Le cours se donnera en français lors de l'Institut d'Immersion française. Teachers are encouraged to look at Culture as more than a collection of trivia facts or pictures of monuments. Using both the Cultures and Comparisons Strands of the Foreign Languages Framework, secondary level participants explore the role of culture in the teaching of French and create a cultural unit. (Conducted in French).
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FRANCE: COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE: 3-DAY IMMERSION SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS OF FRENCH
Embassy Of France/NCLRC &
Marcel LaVergne, Ed.D. (Boston University)
June 30- July 3 Cost: $600 single; $500 double. / Early: (before 5/1): $550 single /$450 double
An enjoyable, informative live-in immersion seminar on French language and culture. The focus is on effective facilitation of communication in the FL classroom and integrating teaching communication and culture. Activities include French meals, a visit to the French Embassy, and the French collection at the National Gallery. (Conducted in French).
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LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS: PLAYING AMONG THE FIVE Cs
Anna Uhl Chamot, Ph.D.; Jill Robbins, Ph.D. & Carol Nezzo, Ph.D.
July 7 Cost: $100/ Early: (before 5/1): $80
Young language learners can have fun while learning to effectively integrate language learning and metacognitive knowledge through play. See how learning strategies are taught with cuddly animal mascots and how dolls, toys, and games are used to engage elementary and middle school students in the learning process.
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