Minutes+of+4-14-08+meeting


 * NOTES** **from Friday, October 7 - 12:00pm**

Here are some of the topics we discussed, plus resources and links:


 * **SKYPE** partnerships between schools on Long Island and abroad: Here is one example of a Skype conference between Herricks Middle School and the Escuela Campo Alegre in Caracas, Venezuela:media type="youtube" key="uvZdhahgUKE" height="315" width="420"


 * **FLACS exam**-writing workshop:
 * For Elaine's item-writing presentation, click [|here].
 * You can view/download Lori's Realia/Fakealia presentation [|here].
 * **Digitizing the AP** speaking component; here is a good [|overview]of digital audio recording in the WL classroom
 * The **Common Core and LOTE**: I found this [|PowerPoint]on the topic; we will discuss this topic at a future WLLCC meeting
 * Some great **PD video resources** for world language**:**
 * Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: []
 * Foreign Language Teaching Methods videos from the University of Texas @ Austin: []
 * **Portfolio**and other alternative assessments for WL:
 * [|IB]assessments
 * [|LinguaFolio]
 * Avant [|iCAN]assessment

**Links from our September 24, 2010 meeting**

 * [|LOTE FAQs] - document including Checkpoint A requirements
 * [|100.2 State Regs] - use of alternative assessments
 * 9/21/10 [|Memo]regarding elimination of SLP (and other) exams
 * 10/26/10 [|Update] regarding SLP exams

=Links from the June 4, 2010 meeting:=
 * **ACTFL's new** [|**AAPPL**] **assessment: (from the website):** "//AAPPL, ACTFL's new generation of foreign language assessment on the four skills of language learning across three modes of communication. This project is in the final stages of a multi-year research and development effort. It will be the first large-scale assessment to incorporate the standards of Community, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities into a highly realistic, multi-media role-play in which students use their academic foreign language skills to build bridges between cultures and do meaningful work//."
 * **ACTFL's** [|performance guidelines] and [|IPA manual] can be previewed online and purchased through ACTFL.
 * **Annenberg Media** and WGBH has a collection of excellent videos for WL staff development called "Teaching Foreign Languages: [|A Library of Classroom Practices] " - these include 30 video clips (viewable online) and professional development videos.
 * The University of Texas at Austin has a series of videos with " [|Professional development modules] for foreign language instruction at the high-school and college levels."
 * Summer study abroad opportunities for your teachers can be found at the [|NEH] (National Endowment for the Humanities) through their Summer Seminars and Institutes and
 * [|Fulbright-Hays] Summer Seminar Abroad. (OJO! Apply early! Fulbright is due in October and NEH in March for the following summer!)

From our March 2010 meeting - Links for LD and WL:

 * How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop (DVD): []
 * article: "Learning Disabilities and Foreign Language Learning" []
 * article: "Accomodating the LD Student in the FL Classroom" []

= Topics for World Language Leaders Collegial Circle – 2008/2009 (in order of popularity) =
 * 1) LCTLs (distance learning programs (i.e., exploratory electives: Chinese, Arabic, Russian); Starting a Chinese language program – staffing? Levels? Success?; Maintaining/increasing enrollment in classes other than Spanish; when is it time to start a new language at the school/district?)
 * 2) Improving WL teacher candidates
 * 3) Special Ed; alternative ways in which to address students with special needs
 * 4) Increasing AP scores / screening for AP classes
 * 5) UBD and Backwards Design
 * 6) Using digital recording to assess speaking
 * 7) Incorporating the four skills and the three modes? Do we require teachers to do a certain number of graded reading, writing or speaking (interpersonal - not just presentational) activities per quarter or semester? Do we require that each quiz have listening; each test has all four skills?

- World Language Leaders Collegial Circle

MINUTES of meeting – April 14, 2008
** Challenges we face in finding qualified candidates: **


 * Problems passing the CST ( à need for a CST-related workshop for teachers at LILT); preparation guides available online: http://www.nystce.nesinc.com/NY_viewSG_opener.asp
 * Some candidates have not had a specific WL methods course
 * Lack of familiarity with technology
 * Language skills are poor and/or missing study abroad experience
 * Need for more dual certified candidates
 * Need help with classroom management
 * Unfamiliar with concepts of good curriculum design/development
 * Not familiar with NY and/or ACTFL standards
 * Need to contact methods professors @ colleges (perhaps a joint FLACS/WL Collegial Circle letter stating ‘requests’ or ‘needs’ of chairs?):
 * NYU: Professor Frank Tang
 * QC: Dr. Jennifer Eddy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">C.W. Post: Marie Loria
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Hofstra: Mustafa Masour
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Stonybrook: Sarah Jourdain
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Molloy: Susana Rubio
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Dowling: Joan Militscher

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Finding candidates: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">OLAS website (http://www.olasjobs.org/)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Soft Search (http://www.softsearch.com/)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">FL Teach (http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/)
 * ñ andutí (http://www.cal.org/earlylang/)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//NY Times// ad
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Chairs ListServ
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Conferences
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Personal recommendations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Methods instructors

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** G **** reat interview questions **


 * W hat got you into teaching? Why did you decide to become a teacher?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Walk me through a lesson… (does the teacher have a sense of organization of the lesson?)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Suppose the lesson is not going well – what do you do? (does the teacher have a ‘Plan B’?)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tell me about your hobbies (in the target language)?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In your opinion, which part of a lesson is the most important?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What are you proud of? (either personally or professionally)
 * H ow do your activities incorporate the NY State (or ACTFL) standards?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">What role does culture play in your teaching?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If you could have dinner with three people from the target culture: Who? Where? What? Why?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If there is a continuum of WL methodology ranging from traditional to communicative, where do you see yourself on the continuum?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Where do you see yourself in five years?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">If a lesson flops, who do you turn to for help/advice?
 * “Targeted selection” method of interviewing: past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior à ask candidates not to describe hypothetical situations (i.e.: //what would you do if…//), but rather what they have done in the past.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Staff development ideas **

> http://www.learner.org/resources/series201.html and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">// Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices: // http://www.learner.org/resources/series185.html > http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html and F ulbright summer seminars: http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/View/ViewCountryIndex.asp
 * A nnenberg/CPB videos (can view online for free! - just create an account): <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">// Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Workshop: //
 * u bD: Understanding By Design, backwards design (Grant Wiggins): plan the assessment first, then design the lesson and activities to reach the goal/objective of the assessment; “Schooling By Design”: http://www.grantwiggins.org/ubd.html
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NFLC ([|http://www.nflc.org]) – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-transform: uppercase;"> W <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">orld Language Observation Protocol (see attached)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NNELL (the National Network for Early Language Learning) – //Learning Languaqes:// good professional journal and advocacy for K-8 language educators: [|http://www.nnell.org]
 * CASLS – sign up for InterCOM, an excellent email digest with lists of vetted language links – FANTASTIC websites/resources to share with WL and ESL teachers: http://casls.uoregon.edu/intercom.ph
 * N ew teacher workshops run by department chair – teachers help each other to learn about the school, share issues, be supportive.
 * Encourage teachers to apply for grants and scholarships: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Encourage teachers to present at local, state, regional and national conferences (i.e., LILT, SCOPE, NECTFL, NYSAFLT, NECTFL)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Encourage teachers to write articles for newsletters (i.e., LILT and NYSAFLT) or magazines (i.e., //Language Magazine//: [|http://www.languagemagazine.com])
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Have teachers connect to native speakers to improve their own proficiency; use SKYPE ([|http://www.skype.com]) and other online chatting services to speak with native speakers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">FLES extension classes: offered at Hofstra July 28-31 (for PD credits OR certification); through Dowling July 14-17 (only for certification) – contact Elaine Margarita: etmrpb@yahoo.com

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Other topics **

> o Molloy College: contact Linda Albanese > o Adelphi: contact Estelle Cohen – <span class="skype_pnh_print_container"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container">(516) 877-3047 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">(516) 877-3047  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"> <span class="skype_pnh_dropart_span"> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span"> (516) 877-3047   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting > o St. Johns: contact Cecilia Russo
 * AP Italian being dropped from College Board. Other options? College credit:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NY Council for the Humanities – free guest speakers! http://www.nyhumanities.org/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">** Next meeting: ** May 16! **Topics:** Technology (wikis, podcasts, websites, etc.) and Special Education (guidelines for exemptions; helping kids with LDs to be successful in WLs).

//Thanks to Michele Ortiz for scribing our notes during the meeting!//