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Oregon’s Second Language Education Conference: Preparing Oregon’s Global Workforce

Oregon’s Second Language Education Conference: Preparing Oregon’s Global Workforce Saturday Keynote October 12, 2007 Dr. Kristin Hoyt Kennesaw State University. Accountability & Testing. Maintain high goals for excellence in FL education and track progress toward those goals

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Oregon’s Second Language Education Conference: Preparing Oregon’s Global Workforce

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  1. Oregon’s Second Language Education Conference: Preparing Oregon’s Global Workforce Saturday KeynoteOctober 12, 2007 Dr. Kristin Hoyt Kennesaw State University

  2. Accountability & Testing • Maintain high goals for excellence in FL education and track progress toward those goals • Incorporate accountability into FL education • Advocate for inclusion of FLs into the K-12 core curriculum • Support the teaching of all FLs, including LCTLs • Incorporate FLs into graduation requirements • Encourage FL study among standards of admission to study in higher education

  3. Highly Qualified Teachers • Adopt high-quality licensure requirements in alignment with student standards • Collaborate with teacher prep institutions to assure well-prepared teachers enter and remain in the profession • Ensure adequate time for high-quality FL-specific professional development • Advocate for continued development of high quality curriculum materials for FLs

  4. Advocacy • Stay informed about federal, state, and local policy issues that impact FL education • Collect data on FL programs at the district, state, national levels and report such data to the profession, policymakers, and the public (Scientifically-based research) • Build a broad base of support for FL education • Urge congress and legislatures to make greater commitments to FLs

  5. What is our fit? • Positive, local strategies, focused & wise use of resources, solid commitment to change what has not worked in the past • Cease remaining in the “outside” stance & begin to understand the broader context in which we find ourselves

  6. Within our Classrooms • Our students are our future • Our approach & perspective dictates so much

  7. Within our Schools • Stay informed of the larger context • Be supportive of the larger mission • Get connected with colleagues • Department chairs advocating for FL-specific professional development • Have a voice

  8. Within our School Districts • Consolidate our efforts with colleagues – build a team • District supervisors advocating for FL-specific professional development • Service to the district / gaining voice

  9. Within our Districts & State:Curricular Challenges • Update curriculum with an international layer, in the absence of available slices of time in the curricular pie • Partner with technology, instead of competing as a “special” • Position yourself in dialogue with curriculum coordinators, principals, superintendents about the role of FL in the tested curriculum

  10. Within Professional Communities • Membership / involvement in the profession • Working in isolation perpetuates our content area as dispensable / non-core • Learn how to advocate

  11. Within our State • Serve on task forces • Take leadership in state organizations • Approach educational leaders, policymakers and ask for plans, outlines, answers • Collaborate as a professional organization with state FL leaders on issues of standards, state-level assessments, etc.

  12. The Personal Charge • Make some choices • Balance / re-focus your time & energy • Identify a goal / special project • Get involved

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