Pedagogical Skills
Throughout my journey in the MAFLT program, I began to isolate the qualities I valued most in my own language learning experience and how I could reproduce them for my students. Key among these values emerged individual expression and intrinsic motivation, themes that you can see reflected in the projects I have completed below.
Click through each of the links below to visit projects I have created each on the topics of interculturality, technology, and assessment in regards to teaching foreign languages. Combined they form not only an efficient and sensitive system for world language instruction, but also one that is also accessible to stakeholders.
Interculturality
An activity designed to help students discover what it means to be interculturally competent, based on a simulated alien-earthling interaction. How do we learn to care? How do conceptualize the ways that we differ?
Technology
As one of the main focuses of the MAFLT program, learning to teach using new and innovative forms of technology has been inspiring and motivating. These are just a few examples of the ways in which I have used technology to create language-learning materials.
Assessment
A demonstration of and rationale for dicto-comp assessment, a type of listening comprehension activity that both draws explicit attention to literary forms as well as requires internalization of them. The best assessment is principally a learning opportunity.