<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:26.6667px;font-family:"Roboto Condensed";color:rgb(67,67,67);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Online Professional Development Facilitator</span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) seeks an energetic and knowledgeable online facilitator for a national project. If you are an online K-16 foreign language teacher with an interest in the development of materials for online instruction, we encourage you to apply.  This is a unique opportunity to lead an online professional development series exclusively designed for online foreign language teachers. This Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) module will be the second of a series of three modules developed and offered annually by the NFLRC in collaboration with North Carolina Virtual Public School. The 2015 module is available at </span><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/82/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/82/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Position Description</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This position will entail facilitating five 2-hour weekly sessions of a professional development module on materials development for online foreign language teachers. Various professionals in the field are invited to give presentations on topics in their area of expertise. Sessions are synchronous, in webinar format, and start September 28 and end on October 26, 2016. The facilitator is expected to:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">give a brief overview of the topic for each session and introduce each speaker; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">moderate a discussion after the topic has been presented (with support from the NFLRC staff);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">wrap up each session;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr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t-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Application Instructions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submit a cover letter explaining how you meet the minimum requirements and a C.V. to </span><a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">nflrc@hawaii.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:"Open Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> by August 1, 2016.</span></p><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font size="2"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">**********************************************************************</div></div></span><b>National Foreign Language Resource Center</b></font><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1859 East-West Road #106<br>Honolulu, HI  96822-2322</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Phone: <a href="tel:808-956-9424" value="+18089569424" target="_blank">808-956-9424</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Website: <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu" target="_blank">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC Twitter page: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NFLRC YouTube channel:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/nflrchawaii</a></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">NFLRC listserv: <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/11/" target="_blank">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/11/</a></span><br></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Are you an ACTFL member interested in Project-Based Language Learning?</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sign up to support the creation of a new PBLL SIG:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/12/" target="_blank">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/about/12/</a></span></font><br></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";word-wrap:break-word">**********************************************************************</div></div></span></font></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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