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801 Foreign Language Graduate Teaching Associate Seminar
Autumn Quarter, 2008


Before you arrive || Foreign Language Center TeacherTraining Workshop
.SPPO Teacher Training Workshop ||Au08 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
15%
Three class-based projects
15%
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 below classes will be accepted for credit.

Date

Time/Room

Topic

Homework

 

Sept 29
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

  • Intro to course and course overview;
  • Brainstorm lesson plans for teaching Chapters 2 and 6 in 102.66 & 103.66

 

  • Compare to model plans by K. Escondo and B. Woodring
  • Compare to Ch exam

 

Oct 3
Friday

 

 

 

First observation due

 

Oct 6
Monday

 

HH 255

 

Teaching Culture

K. Hawkins & R. Gulish (tent)

 

  • Read pp. 134-146; 245-246 – Shrum and Glisan (text); Allen and Valette, Listening Comprehension
  • Omaggio handout on culture (Ch 8)

 

 

Oct 13
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

Listening for Retention

Group composition/oral quiz grading & admin rehearsal

 

  • Read Long and Macián handout: Listening Skills: Acquisition and Assessment
  • Omaggio handout on Listening for Proficiency, pp. 176-203.

 

Oct 17
Friday

 

 

 

Second observation due

 

Oct 20
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

Culture Swap Shop

 

 

  • Due: 3 Quiz on Culture and Listening

 

Oct 24
Friday

 

 

 

Third observation due

 

Oct 27
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00
103.66 Group

 

Exam #2 Common Grading

Culture Swap Shop

Read Omaggio handout on Reading for Proficiency, pp 203-226

 

Nov 3
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

Developing Oral and Written Communication

Culture Swap Shop (continued if necessary)

 

  • Read Shrum and Glisan, Ch 6; 8 – 9

Nov 7
Friday

 

 

Fourth observation due

 

Nov 10
Monday

 

HH255
5:30 – 7:00

 

Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom:
K. Hawkins

 

K. Hawkins, Sample lesson

 

Nov. 11
Tuesday

 

 

Veterans Day
No classes
Offices closed

 

Read Shrum and Glisan, Ch 11

 

Nov 17
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

  • Administering and rating oral assessment
  • Oral Proficiency Swap Shop

 

K. Hawkins, R. Robison, S Sanderson

 

Nov 24
Monday

 

 

  • Oral Proficiency Swap Shop (Cont)

 

Due: 4th Quiz on Omaggio reading, Ch 6, 8, 9,11

 

Dec 1
Monday

 

HH 255
5:30 – 7:00

 

  • Oral Proficiency Swap Shop (cont.)
  • Assessment in FL classroom
  • Wrap Up & End-of-Quarter Discussion

 

What did you learn that’s worth remembering?

 

Dec 5
Friday

 

 

 

Video and self-critique due