| Week 1: Main Topic(s): Introduction to the Course, of course; our group; What is 'CBI'? Adjusting this year's version to SpeakEasy |
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scoring guide for the course; the "Humboldt Project", the Humboldt SINQ course (winter 20102), and its earlier versions, FLL 399 (2006W) and GER 427/527 (2006F); also my PSU 19th Century Cluster SINQ presentation about the Humboldt Project (October 2008);
Project work samples (on your disk): #1 - 0706, 736; #2 - 0707, 737; #3 - 708, 738
examples of actual activities (travel programs, etc.) to which a CBI-trained language teacher could add a language-learning module: 716, 718
examples of other courses and projects elsewhere: the "Big Book" activity for middle-schooler FLES (#0407); new efforts to teach reading better in PPS (#0796); a college course that combines third-year German with hydraulic engineering (0712)
Project 1: a single CBI lesson
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(5') SmallTalk - Here's the list of plus/minus aspects of CBI that we generated last meeting - any additions?
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(20') group starts to generate specifications for Projects 2 (extended CBI module) & 3 ("Big Idea" for an entire CBI course); Example to help focus discussion: Which project, and at which language level, would be taking over the WLL calendar with its recipes?
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(30') Project 1 as group effort, with math as the content; sub-areas might be: a) geometry (basic shapes, equality, inequality); b) ethnomathematics; c) statistics. An early step will be a closer look at math standards. Then focus on (a) geometry, arithmetic, and the "Pizza Lesson": outline & questions for the discussion
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(10') Break: Go get your coffee or your snack. Maybe think about CBI modules for baristas, like the first-year German student I had who was planning to transfer to a Starbuck's in Germany.
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(20') The "Humboldt Project" - could include language modules.
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(20') Sources of lesson plans - see "schedule" page; here's an example for math, from Thirteen Ed Online; or how about an art contest for Endangered Species Day?
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(10') upcoming: see section immediately below; if time: group drafts the scoring guide for the reflection
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