University of Florida Homepage

LANGUAGE TEACHER SUMMER INSTITUTE

Maximizing foreign language output in the classroom: An in-depth, interactive, two-week course

Applications are open for Summer 2024. Deadline is April 8, 2024.

Who:

Middle and high school and community college teachers of any foreign language who want to cultivate new skills and ideas for creating a more exciting and interactive classroom environment.

Cost:

The seminar is free, but space is limited and applications will be competitive.

Where:

All sessions are online.

When:

June 3-14, 2024, M-F with morning and afternoon meet-ups.

Benefits:

Participants will receive a $500 stipend for completing the course and a certificate to submit for Professional Development credit

Teachers will identify, reframe, and reproduce six core high-leverage teaching practices (HLTP) for language instruction based on the discussion and analysis of enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices. (The American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2017), and using LingroToGo and Contrasena as models. Develop a lesson unit and activities for their own language classroom. Model a specific practice by deconstructing the HLTP into instructional models and listing the teaching challenges they addressed taking into consideration their instructional context, learners, and goals. Assess their peers and their own lesson using the TELL Project rubric for teacher effectiveness for language learning.

Instruction by University of Florida faculty who specializes in classroom technology and interactive learning spaces.

Teachers will receive a certificate upon completion of assignments, which they can submit to their district for proper credit. Registered UF students may be able to receive college credit.

To request additional information contact Carla ruffer at 352-294-7145, rufferc@ufl.edu

This institute is partially funded by the US Department of Education through its support of the Center for European Studies.

Apply

Language Teacher Summer Institute Application

  • Max. file size: 15 MB.
  • Max. file size: 15 MB.
    Your statement of purpose is a brief (500 words or less) description of why you would like to attend LTSI and in what ways you would like to develop a creative and interactive classroom environment.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Previous LTSI Workshops

 

Contact

Carla Ruffer
Outreach Coordinator
3324 Turlington Hall
rufferc@ufl.edu
(352) 294-7145