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1)<br>Date: 29 Apr 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:imanhashemcflp@aol.com" target="_blank">imanhashemcflp@aol.com</a></span><br>Subject:Occidental College STARTALK Arabic Teachers Program<br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occidental College STARTALK Teacher Program</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Putting the Arabic Standards Front and Center</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PROGRAM II: Building Leadership in the Arabic Language Teaching Community</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">June 14-18, Hilton Hotel Anaheim, CA.</span><br>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This is an invitational program. The program will provideeligible teachers with opportunities to enhance and articulatetheir curriculum maps in light of their classroom experiences and will developan additional standards-based, technology enhanced instructional unit with anintegrated performance assessment (IPA): using backward design with real-worldobjectives that are age- and stage-appropriate; focusing on culture and contentfrom the core curriculum; including the three modes of communication; providingopportunities for cultural and linguistic comparisons and real-world languageuse beyond the classroom.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PROGRAM II: Technology as the Coreof Standards-Based Arabic Instruction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">June 20-26, California State University, Long Beach</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Participants in our Technology Sessions will be divided into two groups based on the needsthey identify in their applications and the level of their proficiency in standards-based andtechnology-enhanced instruction. Both groups will learn to effectively use technology to enhance a standards-based approach: locating authentic materials on the web including video,music, art, graphics, text, data; using technologies to make authentic materials accessible to students including MovieMaker and PowerPoint; facilitating interpersonal communication through instant messaging, video, audio and written chats, emails, interactive assignments and homework; supporting presentational communication using thethe technologies listed above as well as online postings, webpages and GoogleDrive.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Iman Hashem</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Dierctor</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">California World Language Project, LA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occidental College</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Department of Education</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="tel:818-620-1176" value="+18186201176" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">818-620-1176</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> • </span><a href="mailto:ihashem@oxy.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">ihashem@oxy.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Iman Hashem</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 29 Apr 2013<br>
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