1. Foreign Languages in
the 21st Century
Classroom
A Series of Workshops from the
Department of International and Second
Language Studies at the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock and
the Arkansas Department of Higher
Education
September 2011-April 2012 1
2. 2011-2012 Grant Schedule
• AM & PM - 9/12 - Sessions 1 & 2 – Introduction to the Partnership
for the 21st Century Skills and the FL Skills Map
• AM - 10/10 Session 3 – LIS – Creativity and Innovation
• PM - 10/10 Session 4 – LIS – Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• AM - 10/31 Session 5 – LIS – Communication and Collaboration
• PM - 10/31 Session 6 -- IMT – Information Literacy
• AM – 12/5 Session 7 – IMT -- Media Literacy
• PM – 12/5 Session 8 – IMT – Technology Literacy
• AM - 1/30 Session 9 – share/evaluation/report on fall Skills Map
activities by participants
• PM - 1/30 Session 10 – LCS – Flexibility and Adaptability
• AM - 2/27 Session 11 – LCS – initiative and Self–Direction
• PM - 2/27 Session 12 – LCS – Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• AM – 4/2 Session 13 – LCS – Productivity and Accountability
• PM – 4/2 Session 14 – LCS – Leadership and Responsibility
• AM & PM - 4/26 - Sessions 15 & 16 – share/evaluation/report on
spring Skills Map activities by participants 2
3. Today’s Schedule
8:30-9:15 – Breakfast, Conversation, and
Housekeeping, AFLTA 2012
9:15-10:15 – Read and Rate Participants’
Samples
10:15-10:30 -- Break
10:30-Noon –Read/Pair/Share
Noon-12:30 – Working lunch
12:30-2:30 – Flexibility and Adaptability
2:30-3:00 – Summary: OH, AHA!, OMG!,
Awards 3
4. What We’re “Learning”
Interdisciplinary Themes
Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business and
Entrepreneurial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Environmental Literacy
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5. THINK/PAIR/SHARE
Enriched Learning Projects
by James Bellanca
“I have designed Enriched Learning Projects to be a useful tool for
teachers who appreciate the value and benefit of learning
experiences based in projects, who want the best learning for their
students, and who value 21st century learning”.
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6. THINK/PAIR/SHARE
• How do I develop my students’ critical and
creative thinking skills, their problem-solving
skills, and their skills for collaborating and
communicating when I am charged with
developing daily instruction in an ever-
expanding, standards-aligned curriculum heavy
with important content?
• How do I help my students develop their ability to
read more and more complex materials without
sacrificing the key elements of my foreign
language profession?
• How do I squeeze technology into this jam-
packed daily schedule? 6
7. Enriched Learning Model
1. Researched-based
a. Research identifies the best chances to raise student
achievement
2. Purposeful use of technology
a. Technology promotes students’ learning efficiency
3. The priority of self-assessment
a. Students have the primary responsibility for improving
how they learn
4. Learning from doing
a. Extends students’ reflections
5. 2lst century skill development
a. Students know how to think, cooperate, and
collaborate more skillfully 7
12. Flexibility & Adaptability
• EXAMPLE: Students visit a local
community center for senior citizens who
speak the target language. They
research foods that represent the
cultures of the native language and reach
consensus on two snacks to prepare and
serve during their visit. They serve the
snacks to the senior citizens while
engaging them in conversation about
their native country.
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13. Flexibility & Adaptability
• EXAMPLE: Working in small groups, each group is
assigned a city located in the target culture.
Students plan a trip to their specific city. Each day of
the unit the instructor gives the group a travel
problem to solve. Using their own knowledge, the
knowledge of their group members, or knowledge
acquired digitally, each group solves the problem to
their own satisfaction and reports their solution to
class. The next "day” in the sequence, the instructor
gives them back their solution, and adds a
complication or factor that makes the original
solution unworkable or now inappropriate. The group
solves the new problem based on the additional
information and reports out.
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15. An Idea for Flexibility
and Adaptability
Your school is holding a Iron Chef contest and your
team must prepare for the event by submitting a test
recipe. You are given a list of (4, 5) ingredients in
the target culture and must investigate possible
delicious dishes that will contain these ingredients.
Each member of the team will need to research
several possible recipes in the target language for
one of the ingredients. On the day of the event, the
sponsor texts your group to let you know that two of
the ingredients have been substituted thirty minutes
before the competition. Do some quick online
searching to come up with some new ideas.
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16. Tools for Flexibility
and Adaptability
• Use of Google to find alternatives –
using TL Google sites
• Use of twitter to track down
information, inform others, register a
complaint using #
• Finding alternative vocabulary online
• Others?
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