On Friday, February 9, faculty participants in the May 2016 Instructional Innovation Workshop (IIW) held a poster presentation event at the CLS. Their posters illustrated innovative language teaching and learning projects in various community-based contexts, including heritage schools, public libraries,…
ACTFL 2016 Ideas for the Classroom
Community Ideas At the AATG Presidents Meeting, which I attended as AATG-CT vice-president, we learnt about three successful inter-disciplinary projects that involved students and teachers. The Maine chapter presented “Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor”, a one week immersion project with…
Time for technology in the winter break
With the end of the semester upon us, it’s a great time to take stock of teaching and technology accomplishments in 2016, and to look forward to goals and projects for next year. I’ve put a few resources together here…
Heritage Meets Heritage at ACTFL 2016
The Heritage Meets Heritage project made its off-campus debut at a round-table discussion at ACTFL 2016. This project, a study of identity, motivation and inter-language relationships among heritage speakers of Greek, Korean, Russian and Spanish, has been an adventure in learning…
Yale presentations at ACTFL 2016
The time has come for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2016 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, and Yale’s language teaching and research community is well represented. Below are relevant titles and abstracts copied from…
Notes from the reflective teaching Brown Bag, 10/13
Here are a few notes from the October 13 lunchtime discussion in the CLS Library, facilitated by Suzanne Young. I joined a bit late and when some strategies for reflection were already put up on the whiteboard, distilled from the…