Sure, summer just started, but maybe you’re looking for an opportunity to gain valuable skills during the break?
ILETC is happy to announce the following opportunity:
ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Workshop
June 4-7, 2013
Training on the use of ACTFL proficiency guidelines in the assessment of oral proficiency, with the option to become a certified ACTFL rater!
For more information or to reserve a place at any ILETC event, email ILETC@gc.cuny.edu or call 212-817-2083.
Workshop Description
The Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) invites CUNY full- and part-time Chinese language instructors to participate in a year-long workshop aimed at acquiring the tools to design project-based language learning (PBLL) curricula. PBLL is a student-centered pedagogy that focuses on meaning making in the target language. PBLL courses are organized around a complex question or problem. Learners develop linguistic and cultural competence by working toward addressing the question or problem. For sample PBLL projects, visit http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/pebbles/.
We at ILETC consider collaboration to be a key aspect of improving language education. The workshop sessions offer organized spaces for participants to work with and learn from each other. There will be group meetings to discuss progress with colleagues, reading groups and lectures from experts to keep ourselves up-to-date on the changing dynamics of language education, and structured activities to facilitate curriculum development. This professional development activity will be led by Dr. Megan M. Ferry, Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and assisted by a graduate student.
The workshop entails six 2-hour long sessions, which will take place over the course of the 2018-2019 academic year. Most of the meetings will be virtual, although two of them will take place in person at the Graduate Center. The first meeting will be in person, tentatively scheduled for Friday, September 21, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., and the last in May 2019. In addition, we will invite ACTFL to offer a day-long workshop to participants in early November. The complete schedule for this workshop will be available in early September.
There are a limited number of spots available. To apply, please fill out the application form (found here) no later than August 30, 2018. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to ILETC@gc.cuny.edu.
Workshop Facilitator
Megan M. Ferry is Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Union College (Schenectady, NY). She received her B.A. in Asian Studies and German from Mt. Holyoke College, M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature (Chinese and German, with an emphasis on modern Chinese literature and culture) from Washington University in St. Louis. The results of her studies have yielded a diverse body of research and courses. In addition to Chinese language at all levels, she teaches Chinese and Asian American film, Gender and Sexuality on Modern China, East Asian literature and culture, Media China, as well as co-teaches an interdisciplinary course with a civil engineer on China’s Three Gorges Dam and development. She has written on Chinese women writers and the literary field in 1920s and 1930s China, advertising, consumerism, and sexuality in contemporary China, and China-Latin America and China-African relations. In addition to these publications, she has written the Chinese curriculum for the Schenectady Public Schools District and served as evaluator for several K-16 Chinese language programs.
ILETC invites you to the following events in Spring 2013:
Teaching Language, Teaching Literature: State of the Union
May 6, 2013, 9 AM–12 PM
The Graduate Center (CUNY)
All-day conference focused on the approaches to bridging the gap between a preparation in literature and the professional reality of teaching language.
For more information or to reserve a place at any ILETC event, email ILETC@gc.cuny.edu or call 212-817-2083.
With the recent need to shift all courses to online learning, ILETC is launching a training and mentorship activity that offers the opportunity for instructors to re–design their Fall 2020 courses with the support of language educators who have been teaching online and training colleagues around the nation for years. What makes this training unique is the nature of the expertise of these instructors: They are experts not only in generic online teaching, but specifically in teaching languages online, a critical distinction because language instruction, as we know, is substantially different from instruction in other disciplines.
The intensive blended training consists of six 90-minute sessions, plus required tasks between sessions (about two hours of homework for each meeting). The synchronous portion of the training will take place in June, on the following dates: Read more
We at the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (ILETC) are excited to announce two professional development opportunities for language instructors in the 2018-2019 academic year. Please click on the title of each workshop for additional details, including how to apply.
Collaborative Curriculum Development: Workshop for Heritage Spanish Courses
Project-Based Language Learning for the Chinese Classroom
As is the case with all professional development activities conducted by ILETC, the workshops offered during this academic year are guided by a combination of theoretical and pedagogical frameworks that are applicable to both L2 and heritage language education:
