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Meeting # & Date
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Preparation for Meeting/ Assignments Activated at That Meeting (due as specified below)
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| Week 1: Who are we, what is 'CBI', and what are we going to do? |
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#01 • 31 March
(link leads to meeting outline)
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Course introduction; people; what IS 'CBI' and how are we going to approach it?
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#02 • 02 April
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Examples of CBI; outline main course activities and opportunities
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preparation for next meeting:
1) You should be reading one or both of the main books (Stryker/Leaver, Kasper) at the rate of one chapter a week, in the order they appear in the books. Don't be surprised if they come up in class.
2) Fukushima, "Promotional Video in a Foreign Language Course" (#0175)
3) ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (speaking #0012; writing #0013) - this should be review reading, not new; here are the older, language-specific guidelines for Spanish (#0032), German (#0033), French (#0034), and Japanese (#0042)
4) Subject-area standards for exiting high-schoolers in the state of Oregon (#0691 Second Languages; #0693 Visual & Performing Arts; #0694 English; #0695 Mathematics; #0696 Science; #0697 Social Science
Samples of reflections about Levine and Scheutz/ Colangelo
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| Week 2: More what is 'CBI'. Other examples of CBI, and start of first learning activity. Content-area Standards & Lesson Plans |
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#03 • 07 April
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discussion of week 1's reading; defining CBI (refining the definition); the "Humboldt Project"; proficiency guidelines and subject-area content / performance standards
CBI Project 1: An instructional module for a single classroom meeting.
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preparation for next meeting:
1) Subject-area standards for exiting high-schoolers in the state of Oregon (#0691 Second Languages; #0693 Visual & Performing Arts; #0694 English; #0695 Mathematics; #0696 Science; #0697 Social Science
2) Samples of reflections about Levine and Scheutz/ Colangelo
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#04 • 09 April
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Major segment (30 minutes or more) of small-group brainstorming about tentative first (smallest-scale) projects, possibly in relation to a collection of them (parallel across the group, or individual collections of work in this course).
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preparation for next meeting:
recommend from Stryker/Leaver: chapter 3 Italian (novice, intermediate); chapter 4 (Czech becomes Croatian and Serbian, novice [??])
1) Portland Public Schools "Recommendations for the Second Language Minimum Performance Standards" (#0010a)
2) Lesson plans (#0434, 0435) and websites:
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>
Background reading about overall directions in our profession: #0002, #0003
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| Week 3: Thinking through the first CBI project; more possibilities; where to get help (standards, lesson plans) |
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#05 • 14 April
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More CBI topic areas (cooking, math & science); more about the "Humboldt Project": its next stages;
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preparation for next meeting: NO new reading; I suggest returning to previous meeting outlines and following up the links that we didn't get to in class. Short draft proposal for project due at meeting #6, 16 April.
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#06 • 16 April
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Project #1 proposals DUE. About lesson plans, and sources of lesson plans. More group discussion of current stage of project #1, with an eye to Projects 2 & 3.
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| Week 4: Thinking toward the next CBI project: the sub-structure of standards and thematic units |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#07 • 21 April
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project #1 proposals returned with feedback (and, we hope, a go-ahead
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preparation for next meeting:
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#08 • 23 April
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preparation for next meeting:
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| Week 5: [Networking: schools, grants] > More about more projects; team-based learning and other CBI-related practices |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#09 • 28 April
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outlining the projects & their purposes
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preparation for next meeting:
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#10 • 30 April
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brainstorming the projects; outlining their scoring guides
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| Week 6: Team-Based Learning (TBL); Thinking toward project #3: a hefty CBI activity with long-term possibilities (course? cooperation within a large program outside?) |
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#11 • 05 May
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projects; estimating learner levels; guest: Maggie Elliott and gardens / gardening as CBI
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preparation for next meeting:
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#12 • 07 May
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projects: status reports; team-based learning (examples from SpeakEasy); estimating learner proficiencies realistically; CBI and careers in language teaching
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| Week 7: Team-Based Learning (TBL); more about the projects; how to wrap up the course with style |
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#13 • 12 May
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projects: status reports; team-based learning (examples from SpeakEasy); CBI and careers in language teaching
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#14 • 14 May
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| Week 8: More about the projects; special presentations; how to wrap up the course with style |
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#15 • 19 May
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(met without instructor)
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#16 • 21 May
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Guest presentation: Russian Flagship program (ppt file)
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| Week 9: More about the projects; special presentations; how to wrap up the course with style |
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#17 • 26 May
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Projects; Russian Flagship debriefing
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#18 • 28 May
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CBI & grants; FLL-related grants in general
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| Week 10: CBI and various subject areas; checking projects against main CBI principles; program standards |
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#19 • 02 June
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rice culture idea; why do CBI / why not to do CBI?; CBI with ethnomathematics; LAC elsewhere; Campus-Wide Learning Outcomes; more grammar talk; advice for me about expanded SpeakEasy; scoring guide for the course; why use realia / why not to use realia
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#20 • 04 June
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Finals Week
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optional show-and-tell with partying thereafter
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List of Main Course Assignments (not necessarily in final order), with estimate in () of hours of outside-class time needed:
Project 1 (4): Short CBI Demo lesson (proposal, then finished project)
Project 2
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