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801 Foreign Language Graduate Teaching Associate Seminar
Autumn Quarter, 2009


Foreign Language Center Teacher Training Workshop || SPPO Teacher Training Workshop ||Au09 801 Seminar Syllabus

Objectives


Textbook


Teachers Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. Judith Shrum and Eileen Glisan. Thomson Heinle Publishers. 3rd Edition 2005 [ISBN: 1-4130-0462-8]

Requirements


Spanish 801 Seminar Requirements

Performance Requirement
Percentage Value
801 Workshop (August 25 - September 12)
30%
Four observations + analysis
20%
Four on-line quizzes
20%
Participation/Attendance/Common Grading
15%
Two class-based projects
10%
Video and self-critique of teaching a class
5%
Total
100%

Grading Scale

Letter Grade Numerical Equivalent
A 93 - 100
A- 90 - 92
B+ 88 - 89
B 83 - 87
B- 80 - 82
C+ 78 - 79
C 73 - 77
C- 70 - 72
D+ 68 - 69
D 65 - 67
E 0 - 64.9


An additional component of your Spanish 801 grade is to observe four (4) classes (three (3) different instructors). The following instructors have been selected. Although you may observe other colleagues, only observations from the classes below will be accepted for credit.

Date

Time/Room

Topic

Homework

Sept 28
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
  • Intro to course and course overview
  • View model lessons for Chapters 2 and 6 in 102.66 & 103.66
  • B. Woodring (Ch 2), S.Sinnott (Ser & Estar), and B. Whitcomb (Ch 6)
  • Compare to Ch exam
Oct 2
Friday
    First observation due
Oct 5
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
Teaching Culture

Melissa Doran & Amanda Matousek (tentative)
Read
  • Shrum and Glisan (text): pp. 134-146; 245-246
  • Omaggio handout on culture (Ch 8)
Oct 12
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
Listening for Retention
Jared List (tentative)
Group composition/oral quiz grading & admin rehearsal
Read
  • Long and Macián handout: Listening Skills: Acquisition and Assessment
  • Allen and Valette handout: Listening Comprehension
  • Omaggio handout (optional): Listening for Proficiency, pp. 176-203.
Oct 16
Friday
  Group Grade 102.66 & 103.66 compositions, TBA Second observation due
Oct 19
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
Culture Swap Shop
  • Due: Quiz #3 on Culture and Listening
Oct 23
Friday
    Third observation due
Oct 26
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
103.66 & Group
  • Exam #2 Common Grading
  • Culture Swap Shop
 
Nov 2
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
  • Administering and rating oral quizzes and oral exams
  • K. Hawkins & R. Robison
  • Read Shrum and Glisan, Ch 11
Nov 6
Friday
    Fourth observation due
Nov 9
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
  • Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
  • Hawkins Sample lessons
Read
  • Omaggio handout: Reading for Proficiency, pp 203-226
  • Shrum & Glisan, Ch 6
Nov. 11
Wednesday
  Veterans Day
No classes
Offices closed
 
Nov 16
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
Developing Oral and Written Communication Read Shrum & Glisan, Ch 8 – 9
Nov 23
Monday
 
  • Oral Proficiency Swap
Due: 4th Quiz on Omaggio on reading & Shrum and Glisan Ch 6, 8, 9,11
Nov 30
Monday
HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
  • Oral Proficiency Swap Shop (cont.)
  • Assessment in FL classroom/final exam review
  • Wrap Up & End-of-Quarter Discussion
What did you learn that’s worth remembering?
  Dec 4
Friday
    Video and self-critique due