Professional Development Summer Seminar

[Camelot Marshall]

Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian in 2008:
Preparing for AP(r) Russian Language and Culture Course and Examination

 

American Council of Teachers of Russian is pleased to announce the 2008
Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian, to be held at
Bryn Mawr College July 5-11, 2008, travel days being July 5th and 11th.

 

Currently 50 teachers of Russian have attended the professional
development seminar.  The 2008 seminar at Bryn Mawr is of particular
interest to schools planning to offer AP(r) Russian (when it becomes
available) and who wish to move forward with the Prototype AP(r) Russian
Program now available through ACTR by agreement with the College Board.

 

Participants will learn about the goals and practices of the Advanced
Placement(r) Program with special emphasis on the new Russian Web-based
curriculum and teacher authoring tools especially designed for the
Prototype AP(r) Russian Language and Culture Course.  Teachers will also
be become familiar with the design and approach to language assessment
represented by the forthcoming standards-based Prototype AP(r) Russian
Language and Culture Exam, which is administered at the end of the
course. Upon successful completion of the seminar, participants will
receive a certificate in recognition of their training and one graduate
unit (4 hours) of academic credit from Bryn Mawr College, and they will
become a member of select teachers who offer the Prototype AP(r) Russian
Language and Culture Course and Exam at their schools.

 

The seminar is led by a group of peer-mentors, current teachers of
Russian who have piloted the advanced Russian course in their
classrooms, as well as specialists from ACTR and the Bryn Mawr
Department of Russian.  

 

Partial fellowships will be available to qualified U.S. teachers to
attend the 2008 seminar.  Each year, a number of school districts also
elect to support their teachers in this important professional
development program for teachers of Russian.

 

The workshop coincides with the annual Bryn Mawr Russian Language
Institute, an annual summer immersion language program that provides
additional opportunities for using Russian outside of the seminar
sessions. 

 

The Professional Development Seminar is open to high school teachers
interested in starting an Advanced Placement Russian Program.  

 

For more information and application form contact:

Camelot Marshall (marshall at americancouncils.org)

Application Deadline: May 16, 2008  

Space is limited. 

 

 

 

 

 

Camelot Marshall, Ph.D.

Research Specialist, Second Language Acquisition

Assessment and Curriculum Development and Multimedia

American Councils

1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Suite 700

Washington, DC  20036

 

202.833.7522

202.833.7523 (fax)

 


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