Costa Rica
Walk in the shoes of your english language learners. Learn spanish and live in a new culture, much like your ELLs experience being immersed in our schools. Watch this presentation to learn more about the experience.
- This is a 3 semester-hour course
- We will meet 4 times during spring for pre-travel preparation
- You will finish the course by traveling with us to Costa Rica for the 3-week program, May 14-June 6, 2010
Information Meetings
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, EB331
- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, EB229
- Monday, November 16, Trask 119 is a Study Abroad Information Session
- Also, see the board in the Watson School Atrium next to the Education Lab
In this program you will:
- Experience being a Spanish Language Learner—learn a new language, learn in a new culture and language and live in Spanish speaking homes with Spanish newspapers, radio and TV--- to gain empathy for ELLs in your future classrooms.
- Reflect and introspect on their own use of strategies in second language learning to better understand the strategies and stages of language acquisition your students will use.
- Reflect on teaching strategies that are effective and ones that aren’t using Cambourne’s “conditions for learning” as a framework for your reflection and be able to plan teaching activities for ELLs in your own classrooms.
- Gain at least a rudimentary conversational level and understanding of the structure of Spanish to facilitate your ability to communicate with your Spanish -speaking children and families.
- Compare your own culture and family traditions to the culture and family traditions of your host families to gain a better appreciation and understanding of how people are more alike than different.
- Learn to view bilingualism as a strength to be celebrated rather than a deficit to be “fixed.”
- Learn about yourself and your peers as learners and be able to apply these insights to teaching all children more effectively.
Site Coordinator
Dr. Debbie Powell
powelld@uncw.edu
910-962-3175 phone