Meeting 16 • 20 May 2010 • Thursday

Version:
5/27/10

People: Fischer; Ireton; Konrad; Moore

Today

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Week 8: Team-Based Learning (TBL); Thinking toward project #2/#3

materials:

(50') SpeakEasy maintenance: The "Pitch-Heft"

(50') Relating language and literature: where various parts of literary interpretation land on the ACTFL proficiency scale (used #0278 "Literary Interpretation Scale"


Upcoming class meeting(s): #17 & #18 & beyond (25 & 27 May & beyond)

CBI, TBL and various subject areas / learner populations

1) Continue Stryker /Leaver (or Kasper)
2) Continue reading about TBI (0164c, provided as photocopy).
3) Read about advanced points of CBI (0094, "Lessons from Immersion"; 0115 "Designing a Standards-Based thematic Unit"; 0176 Lear, "Spanish for Working Medical Professionals"; 0356 Bueno, "Creating Community…A Content-Based Approach"; 0436 Armengol, "Developing the Language of Mathematics"
4) Read about wider issues in language education: a) college programs (0003, James, "Re-Shaping the 'College-Level' Curriculum"; 0104 Donato, "Literary Discussions"; 0281, Hoecherl-Alden, "Connecting Language to Content: Second Language Literature Instruction at the Intermediate Level"
5) Read about SpeakEasy-related issues: 0141, Cummins, "Preparing Students at All Levels for the World of Business in High School and College Language Classes"; 0368 Ulrich, "Putting Language before Business" (provided as photocopy)
6) Read some rather speculative ideas: 0101 "Sex, Lies and Video Games"

(above listing goes only up to #0500)

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