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ACTFL in Orlando,
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November 22-24, 2013
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NNELL Sessions at ACTFL 2013 Orlando, FL |
Session 1
Title: Whoa NNELLy! The Trifecta of
Resources!
Description: The trifecta of resources for Early
Language Learning! On a cart? In a class? Online?
Connect Common Core through innovative, tested and
approved technology, assessments and activities. Start
by bringing assessments into the 21st century, continue
around the track through activities and technology and
win with support for your program!
Professional Learning Target Area: Personalized Learning
Level: PreK-8
List of Presenters: Nadine Jacobsen-McLean, Lynn
Sessler Neitzel, Andrea Suarez
Language of Presentation: English
Applicable Language: All
Session 2
Title: Intercultural Competence in the Early
Language Classroom
Description: In this session, we will discuss the
importance of intercultural competence in the early
language classroom and explore how language lessons can
be modified to help students develop intercultural
competence. We will share sample lessons, units, and
rubrics created for a research project feature in
NNELL’s Learning Languages journal.
Professional Learning Target Area: Research-informed
instruction
Level: PreK-8
List of Presenters: Michael Byram, Durham
University, Dorie Conlon-Perugini, Glastonbury Public
Schools, Manuela Wagner, University of Connecticut
Language of Presentation: English
Applicable Language: All
Session 3
Title: Assessing Chinese Proficiency: Examples
from Immersion
Description: Participants will learn how assessments of
Chinese proficiency for elementary age students can be
used in daily instruction for all ages. Participants
will see examples of assessment activities that
integrate academic content and language functions.
Through student-to-student interaction and
teacher-to-student interaction, assessments help
teachers to create a highly engaging classroom that
builds overall Chinese proficiency.
Professional Learning Target Area: Standards and
Assessment
Level: PreK-12
List of Presenters: Kathleen Wang ,Pioneer
Valley Charter School
Language of Presentation: Chinese and English
Applicable Language: All |
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NNELL and Advocacy Alerts |
During the 2013 Delegate Assembly, many attendees raised
the question of whether passing a policy alert from
JNCL-NCLIS to association members would violate the
rules against lobbying for non-profit associations.
Does passing a policy alert from JNCL-NCLIS to
association members violate the rules against lobbying
for non-profit associations?
A communication to members that urges them to contact
their legislative representative and ask that
representative to support or oppose legislation is
considered a form of lobbying. If the NCLIS policy alert
urges recipients/readers of the alert to contact their
Member of Congress, then this could be considered
lobbying.
How does this affect NNELL and its advocacy alerts?
NNELL will continue to pass on advocacy alerts that
originate with JNCL-NCLIS and ACTFL, but you will now
see the disclaimer:
The legislative alert below was sent by JNCL-NCLIS
and ACTFL to its members and we are providing it to you
for informational purposes. As a non-profit that is not
legally allowed to lobby, we are obligated to inform you
that NNELL is not officially asking you to contact your
Congressional Representative or take any other
particular action.
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NNELL at the Central States Conference on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages |
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Plan now to attend the Central States Conference on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages at Hilton St. Louis at
the Ballpark on March 20-22, 2014.
- CSCTFL special events on Thursday: Delegate
Assembly for 17 states, Extension Workshop, Advisory
Council Reception/Business Meeting and Exhibit Gala
Opening
- CSCTFL events on Friday: welcome, awards, and
keynote speaker. The keynote speaker is Anthony
Jackson, Vice-President for Education of the Asia
Society.
- Friday evening join us for language receptions
and Ennio Emmanuel in concert presented by the Justo
Lamas Group
- Special events on Saturday: NNELL Breakfast and
Networking Session and luncheon for NADSFL/NCSSFL
members
- National exhibitors from Thursday evening until
Saturday noon
- More than 180 sessions from which to choose on
Friday and Saturday including language-specific
topics
- 30 workshops ranging in language and topic
throughout the conference including the ACTFL
workshop-Planning for Student Learning: Effective
Curriculum, Unit, and Lesson Design
The Conference Preview is available at
http://www.csctfl.org
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New Resources Available in NNELL's Members Only
Area: National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
Materials |
Thanks to Dr. Marcia Rosenbusch, NNELL is pleased to
offer members access to a variety of resources from the
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center.
Standards Based Thematic Units:
The first six units provide invaluable examples of
thematic teaching that integrate language, culture, and
subject content. They were inspired by Carol Ann Pesola
Dahlberg’s “Framework for Curriculum Development”
(Curtain & Pesola, 1994, p. 62). These units were among
the first published materials to relate classroom
teaching to the national student standards in foreign
language education.
The other units owe their inspiration to Mari Haas. Most
of the authors were in one of the NFLRC summer
institutes Mari co-taught in Iowa. The remaining authors
have been Mari’s students at Teachers College, Colombia
University.
Research projects on Spanish Dual-Immersion and
Chinese FLES:
In response to the need in the profession for research
on early foreign language education, the NFLRC's
research efforts for 2006-2010 were focused on two
longitudinal studies. The resources in this section
include program overviews, curriculum, information about
professional development, resources for administrators
and parents, and a research overview of the two
programs.
Other Resources:
Members will find past issues of the Alumni
E-newsletter, information about past institutes and
copies of Brining the Standards to the Classroom: A
Teacher’s Guide.
History of the K-12 NFLRC:
Marcia Harmon Rosenbusch, Ph.D., served as the
Director of the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource
Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University since it was
first funded by the U.S. Department of Education in
1994. The NFLRC was the first federally funded center to
focus on building a strong foundation in foreign
language education in elementary and secondary schools
as a means of improving the nation’s capacity for
teaching and learning languages at all levels, K-16.
Through Dr. Rosenbusch’s leadership, the NFLRC addressed
projects that were innovative for their time and focused
on positively impacting the world language profession.
These have included professional development institutes
focused on integrating into classroom instruction:
standards-based teaching, thematic teaching, technology,
assessment strategies, and action research. She directed
44 summer professional development institutes taught by
nationally recognized leaders in the profession to over
800 K-12 world language teachers and teacher educators
from all 50 states.
Dr. Rosenbusch’s final research projects focused on two
elementary school program models: K-3 Spanish dual
language (an intensive language program model in which
instruction is provided half of the time in Spanish and
half in English to the students, of which at least half
are native Spanish speakers) and K-2 Chinese FLES (a
non-intensive language program model). These projects
involved longitudinal research on the attitudes of
students, parents, and teachers toward the language and
culture; student progress in language proficiency; and
student scores on standardized assessments of English
language arts and mathematics as compared to students in
control schools where no world language is taught.
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