Online Workshop: Passage Rating Seminar

From http://larc.sdsu.edu/passage-rating-seminar

Want to improve the use of “authentic” content in your classroom? Learn how to evaluate spoken and written “passages” for appropriate level. Gain expertise in developing language classroom tasks appropriate for various proficiency levels. This workshop is free but a cost is required for two-units of college credit for those interested.

This completely online 5-day workshop looks at various types of text (print and media) to determine how they map onto the various levels of proficiency, from the ACTFL Novice (ILR 0) to the ACTFL Advanced (ILR 3). Each day for one hour participants meet with the instructor in LARC’s virtual classroom to field questions and review the homework. The rest of the day, participants are free to enter LARC’s Moodle site and work through the videos, practice assignments, and homework. Participants will come away from this work-shop better equipped to choose authentic materials for the levels of language they are teaching, as well as to understand the properties of text that students are capable of producing.

The winter workshop will take place January 23-27, 2012.

Learn more and sign up at http://larc.sdsu.edu/passage-rating-seminar