Meeting 08 • 23 April 2009 • Thursday

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5/4/09

People: Benoit, Montaigne; Breedlove, Clifford E.; McDonnell, Kelsey C.; Orcutt, Kathleen S.; Pennington, Laurissa B.; Salinas, Victor; Tasi, Joana; Watters, Erin.
Today

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Week 4: Thinking toward the next CBI project: the sub-structure of standards and thematic units
I got behind on my meeting oulines, so sent briefer versions by email. Here is the one for this meeting:

Hi CBI-ers,

I'm down to my last few hours of preparing the Albanian proposal, but that means I can't have the full outline up on the website for tomorrow. This should be the last time I let you down this way.

Topics for tomorrow:

1) Let's let off steam about how I could better structure this course so that Project 1 will not be so traumatic. But I'm not convinced it would be better just to start with P2 or, much less, P3.
2) Well, what about P2 and P3?
3) Assessment of student learning with CBI
4) intro to Team-Based Learning.
5) More about the Humboldt Project


Teaser: OK, we've talked about turning study of literature into CBI. Now what about that other beloved subject-area of our foreign-language programs, C/culture?

materials:

the "Humboldt Project", and its earlier versions, FLL 399 (2006W) and GER 427/527 (2006F); also my PSU SINQ presentation (October 2008);
CBI activity scoring guide (see handout from previous meetings or use this link)
samples of reflections about Levine and Scheutz/ Colangelo (0706)
samples of Project 1: 0706a Marketing & Media through Bicycle Safety; 0706d Photography; 0706e Salsa Rueda; 0707b Politics in France / the US; 0706e Salsa Rueda;

FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence <http://www.unterrichtsmaterial-schule.de/index.shtml> - not just lesson plans; also links to organizations, competitions, etc.
thirteen ed online - huge collection of lesson plans, projects, etc. <http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/>
National Park Service - Wupatki National Monumen resources for teachers <http://www.nps.gov/wupa/forteachers/trt.htm>
The JASON Project (National Geographic Society) - curricular resources about great events and great explorers (5th-8th grades, but flexible <http://www.jason.org/Public/AboutUS/aboutUS.aspx>
Curriki - Wiki for lesson plans <http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome>

Can people find lesson plan collections for other langs? Here's one for German: Unterrichtsmaterial & Arbeitsblätter <http://www.unterrichtsmaterial-schule.de/index.shtml>
The SpeakEasy course scoring guide
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