"Since my last response I was able to further expand the department name to "Global Languages and Cultures" "
National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages
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Sebastian Leone replied to adina alexandru's discussion "world language" or "foreign language", is it semantics?Sebastian Leone replied to adina alexandru's discussion "world language" or "foreign language", is it semantics?"
Neither of the two, I called my department "Global Languages"
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Profile Information
- Name of District, City, & State
- Retired Supervisor from the Freehold Regional HS District
- My regional FL conference is:
- NECTFL
- My primary supervisory K-12 responsibilities are at this level:
- other
- Number of Teachers that I supervise:
- none
- What is the current focus of your work?
- While I was an active supervisor in my district, I created and implemented a magnet program that focused on content related courses of study, which was a language driven curriculum in Spanish, French and Russian. I have presented sessions focusing on this topic at FLENJ, NECTFL, ACTFL and CLTA. I am currently a university supervisor for student teachers at Monmouth University.
- What are your three areas of expertise (for sharing with other members)?
- 1. Explaining the differences between content based and content related curriculum.
2. How to design, write, and implement content related curriculum.
3. How to assess daily class participation via a rubric in the World Language classroom.
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Karen deFur commented on Greta Lundgaard's event Summer Leadership Academy"I agree! It was wonderful and I look forward to participating again this year.
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Leslie Baldwin replied to James R. Yoder's discussion Proficiency Levels?"Those are higher than the exit proficiency expectations we have set in NC. We also differentiated expectations by mode of communication and language type. You can see what we did by looking at the tables in the intro part of the…"
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