Meeting 13 • 12 May 2009 • Tuesday

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5/26/09

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

(X') = anticipated time in minutes (total= 110' minus break)
(#0001) etc.=item in document collection (will be explained in class)
Key to notes added AFTER the class meets:
√ = topic / activity that was adequately dealt with during the class
+ = topic needs more attention & will be resumed at next / subsequent meeting(s)
- = a topic / activity that was proposed but not carried out - will be taken up later
Struckthrough text like this = a topic / activity that was proposed but not included is not going to be taken up after all
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Week 7: Team-Based Learning (TBL); more about the projects; how to wrap up the course with style

materials:

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(10') A movie clip about learning learning French vocabulary for body parts. Is it CBI? Or rather, to what extent is it CBI? Can we come up with better CBI activities for learning body parts? Hint: If an activity is promoting only one linguistic feature, it's probably not good CBI. Here's a movie clip about a nice guy who was taught grammatical features in strict isolation from one another.
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(30' or more) More project discussions; if anyone is still lacking a course idea (Project 3), I recommend looking at programs where ordinary students (=not language students) make study / work trips abroad (ecology in Costa Rica, etc.) and developing a CBI component for them; see: www.ahastudyabroad.org; earthwatch; courses at abroad equivalents of community colleges (German: VHS / Volkshochschule)
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(20') Team-based learning for CBI purposes: 1) try out the SpeakEasy activity "re-organizing the classroom into a workplace"; 2) groupwork vs. GROUPWORK/ TEAMWORK - how to set it up using L2, making things happen outside class, assessment issues, tensions (examples: SpeakEasy list-checking, departments, planning the Annual Exposition, conducting the Exposition; SF drama production sub-teams);

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(20') IF TIME: Four takes on the same underlying idea: 1) empathy with our learners; 2) accurately assessing their proficiency before we start CBI (#0403 first-year Spanish at PSU, especially pp. 529-30); 3) remembering that learning is both process (journey) and result (destination); 4) our recollections of our own language learning - are they accurate? and what do we mean when we say, "Well, I learned [x] when…"? 5) Europeans and their CBI-related ESL; 6) relating the function- and context-driven nature of CBI to how we get our students to acquire vocabulary and structure (aka grammar).
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(20') how CBI relates to careers in language teaching; CBI-related grant possibilities; links: Humboldt Project grants page; Albanian project; PSU CAE (see link "resources" and also "International CBL"); PSU OAA faculty development resources, including AIM grants; example of US DOE grant site (CFDA 84.017)
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(10') There will be no final exam. What will we do instead? Project Fair? Symposium? __?
Upcoming class meeting(s) (#14 • 14 May 2009 Thursday)

I have to go to Eugene Thursday to be with our daughter. I may be able to get somebody to replace me. More soon.
Upcoming class meeting(s) (#15 • 19 May 2009 Tuesday)

Emphasis: course-length CBI; portfolios & work samples (as CBI activities, for assessment, for professional use; Humboldt Project: "Earth Day with Alex" / Cynanea humboldtiana - our endangered species

Further topics: Russian Flagship program; LAC in various programs elsewhere; German 101 "Traumreise / Dream Trip" project as starting point for a for-credit CBI module

Team-Based Learning (Michaelsen book), resources 0164, 0191, 0192, 0193, 0431;

If not read already: Portland Public Schools "Recommendations for the Second Language Minimum Performance Standards" (#0010a)

0094 (Integrating Language & Content: Lessons from Immersion); 0114 (Lesson Planning); 0270 (Content-Based Language Instruction, as of 1986); 0082 (Discovering Science and Technology through American History); to come: Technology and Culture article about slaves in American South trading knowledge of African rice cultivation for better living conditions

McWhorter about Black English / standard English and Afrocentric curriculum (via email, 11 May)

About larger educational issues: 0314 Schalock on history of American education (via email to come)

0712 FLA about Engineering & German (to come via email)

Second-language and ESL modules for the Humboldt Project
Upcoming assignment(s)

This section offers a PREVIEW, not activated assignments. Assignments are made, with announcement of their deadlines, both in class and on the "schedule" page.

Maybe a second reflective piece: "Oh, so that's what standards in other content areas are like!"
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