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Meeting # & Date
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Outline of meeting
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| Week 1: Who are we, what is 'CBI', and what are we going to do? |
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#01 • 30 March
(link leads to meeting outline)
handout
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Course introduction; people; what IS 'CBI' and how are we going to approach it? Special situation: maintaining SpeakEasy; tools of the language-pedagogy trade (standards, main types of method, organization & publications). Main CBI texts & other resources. Intake assignment: reflection about CBI in your own language-learning experience.
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#02 • 01 April
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leftovers from previous meeting; further examples of CBI; outline main course activities and opportunities; SpeakEasy: the CBI perspective; SpeakEasy: the maintenance activities; the Humboldt Project, including Earth Week;
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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 abstract)
3) ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (speaking 0012; writing 0013) - this should be review reading, not new; 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)
4) Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century (0001, "5 C's")
Samples of reflections about Levine and Scheutz/ Colangelo
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things to cover during next week or two: standards for other subject areas; case studies from Stryker/Leaver, Kasper, journals; maybe: closeup on a single subject area (math?); adjusting / reducing previous versions' assignments (single classroom meeting; thematic unit; entire course) to allow for SE maintenance; learning styles & strategies
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| Week 2: More "what is 'CBI'?". Other examples of CBI; SpeakEasy "maintenance"; start of first learning activity. Content-area Standards & Lesson Plans |
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#03 • 06 April
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discussion of week 1's reading; defining CBI (refining the definition); (next week: the "Humboldt Project";) proficiency guidelines and subject-area content / performance standards
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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 • 08 April
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Review of previous meeting, since many were absent. SpeakEasy Maintenance, for its own sake and as example of CBI pedagogy.
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preparation for next meeting (#5):
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 • 13 April
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"Take stock" of the course and be sure everyone is along; debate: why (not) CBI - pluses and minuses; more about the "Humboldt Project": its next stages; sample lesson plans (see links immediately above); first steps in math CBI project 1 as group activity
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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
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#06 • 15 April
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SpeakEasy Maintenance in first hour; second hour: the group-developed math CBI project; maybe initial discussion of Projects 2 & 3
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| Week 4: wrapping up Project 1; 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 • 20 April
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with reference to Hitler's birthday and anti-nazi activities related to that: the Holocaust as CBI - but what and how?; math project as group-developed example of Project 1; initial thoughts about Projects 2 & 3; course with hydraulic engineering as content for German learning
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#08 • 22 April (used materials from meeting #7)
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SpeakEasy maintenance; in honour of Shakespeare's birthday (#446, tomorrow): literature-based language instruction (FL? ESL?) - but HOW?; choose contents for at least one of Project 2/3;
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| Week 5: More about more projects; team-based learning and other CBI-related practices; maybe: grants |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#09 • 28 April
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outlining the 2/3 projects & their purposes; SE Maintenance: the "Box" for next fall's newbies
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preparation for next meeting: 1) Continue Stryker /Leaver (or Kasper)
2) Outline your project 2/3, and give me a one-page sketch next week.
3) Read about team-based learning (0164, 0191, 0192).
4) Look at grant possibilities, using the Humboldt Project site, the PSU CAE resource site, and the PSU Academic Affairs Faculty Development Funding page.
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#10 • 30 April (use materials from meeting #9)
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first hour: SpeakEasy maintenance; second hour:
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| Week 6: Team-Based Learning (TBL); Thinking toward project #2/#3: a hefty CBI activity with long-term possibilities (course? cooperation within a large program outside?) |
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preparation for next meeting:
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#11 • 04 May
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preparation for next meeting:
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#12 • 06 May
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SpeakEasy maintenance (setting the parts of the "new employees orientation"; brainstorming the #2/#3 projects; outlining their scoring guides; estimating learner levels; team-based learning (examples from SpeakEasy);
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| Week 7: Team-Based Learning (TBL); more about the projects |
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preparation for next meeting: German & physics combine to produce an environmentalism course (0785 and handout from meeting #11, 4 May); team-based learning (see PDF## above)
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#13 • 11 May
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projects: status reports; environmental-based German CBI course (0785); team-based learning (examples from SpeakEasy); SpeakEasy maintenance: the initial "Pitch Book" and the basic company booklet for new employees (who produces what)
upcoming reading: the college curriculum; other course-size ideas (rice cultivation); lessons from immersion programs (0094)
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#14 • 13 May
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Team-Based Learning, projects, and kinds of learners; themes and skills areas in the Humboldt SINQ; SpeakEasy maintenance
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| Week 8: More about the projects; special presentations; |
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#15 • 18 May
handout (same as for #14)
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repeat of previous meeting, since most were absent
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#16 • 20 May
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SpeakEasy Maintenance: the "Pitch-Heft"; Relating language and literature: where various parts of literary interpretation land on the ACTFL proficiency scale (used #0278 "Literary Interpretation Scale"
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| Week 9: More about the projects; special presentations; |
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#17 • 25 May
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Spanish for veterinarians; lessons from immersion; SpeakEasy maintenance: what about on-line activities; repport about new hire in FLL and meeting with PSU Innovation & Industry Alliance people
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#18 • 27 May
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| Week 10: CBI and various subject areas; checking projects against main CBI principles |
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#19 • 01 June (as handout only)
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#20 • 03 June (as handout only)
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Finals Week
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videorecord / write Marching Orders to fall 2010 SE group
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