World Languages Training
Workshop Details
WHEN: Wednesday, 9 to Friday, 11 September 2015
WHERE: Ampang and Melawati Campuses
FEES: Free for ISKL Faculty
FOCUS: ISKL World Language Faculty
Workshop Overview
Paul Sandrock from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be here in ISKL to provide a workshop and supporting language learning with world language teachers.
Learning Outcomes
Paul will work with all language teachers together for two days and on the third day spend half day with teachers at the lower school and half day with teachers at upper school.
Paul Sandrock
Paul Sandrock, Director of Education at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), directs this national organisation's professional development and initiatives around standards, curriculum, instruction, and performance assessment. Previously, he was Assistant Director of Content and Learning at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), beginning that state's implementation of the Common Core State Standards and coordinating the areas of English language arts, mathematics, international education, and world languages. He earlier served as the DPI state-wide consultant for world languages. Sandrock taught Spanish for 16 years in middle school and high schooland suthored The Keys to Assessing Language Performance and Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages. He previously served ACTFL as a board member and president and received ACTFL's Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, K-12.Source: asiasociety.org