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Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs In Foreign Languages, Anja Bernardy, Elaine Mcallister
Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs In Foreign Languages, Anja Bernardy, Elaine Mcallister
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For the past 20 years educators have debated whether alternative teacher certification, or preparation, is a valid solution to the critical shortage now facing the profession. In foreign language education, Kennesaw State University (KSU) has developed an alternative preparation program designed to give candidates the same knowledge, skills, and dispositions imparted in traditional undergraduate preparation and to hold these individuals to the same standards required of undergraduates in foreign language education. This article describes the program, discusses the disadvantages and rewards of the assessment plan, and offers observations on the future of nontraditional preparation of teachers.
Group Study Abroad And Thematic Units, Sue Barry
Group Study Abroad And Thematic Units, Sue Barry
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This article describes the model for a Group Study Abroad Project to Peru for K-12 teachers of Spanish that took place during the summer of 2001. The model has a pre-travel, overseas, and post-travel component. All three are described, with special emphasis on the program exit evaluation and the participants’ reactions one year later. Participants were generally positive about their experience, but some expressed a need for more preparation in creating thematic units. Selected units are described in the appendices along with Web site references where readers can find complete lesson plans and e-mail addresses of authors.
Creating A Language Learning Community Within And Beyond The Classroom, Denise M. Overfield
Creating A Language Learning Community Within And Beyond The Classroom, Denise M. Overfield
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This article describes an interdisciplinary project that joins a popular curricular model, the learning community, with an increasingly popular pedagogical technique, community-based learning. The combination of the two gives students the opportunity to use language as both an object of and tool for learning, thus situating language at the heart of the learning experience. The development of a learning community creates a curricular space in which faculty and students work together as novices and experts in a specific situation to resolve linguistic and sociocultural issues. This article presents the field experience of 1st-year nursing students who were enrolled in a …