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Misha’s Advising Fall 2014 Guide

Join Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor for program insights, course selection tips, portfolio defense info, and key contacts in LLED at UGA. Enhance your academic journey and make the most of your time at UGA!

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Misha’s Advising Fall 2014 Guide

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  1. Misha’s Advising Fall 2014

  2. Getting Started • Who am I? • Who are you? • Expectations from the program of study • Expectations from your advisor • How to have positive year(s) with us in TWLE/LLED/COE/UGA [and what do all those acronyms mean?]

  3. Your advisor • Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor cahnmann@uga.edu your advisor • Yahoo “Mishas_advising” listserv • Subscribe mishas_advising-subscribe@yahoogroups.com • Course, funding, publishing, job opportunities, and other listings • When do you meet with your advisor? • Once every fall for face to face academic advisement • Email for course approval in spring—send a list of 5-6 courses you are considering with #s, professor names, and any time conflicts. You may also keep and send an updated planning sheet to keep track of what has been taken and what needs to be taken • 15 minute face to face appointments scheduled as needed, Thursday mornings

  4. GET TO KNOW YOUR ADVISOR IN A CLASS SHE TEACHES: • LLED 7710Writing Cultures: A Poetry Workshop for Creative Educators [F14] • LLED 8045 Advanced Poetry for Creative Educators [Summer] • LLED 6631 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education [SPR14] • LLED 8650 Translingual Memoir • LLED 8590 Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities [SPR14] • LLED 7504 Theatre for Reflective Practice in the Language, Literacy, and TESOL Classroom • LLED 7504E Reflective Practice • LLED 7506 Teaching Literature in Spanish for the K-12 Foreign Language Classroom [F2014] • **Interested in a course taught and guided in Summer in Oaxaca, Mexico? Let me know! • Workshops: Spanish for Non-Spanish Speakers: What Every Educator Should Know  • **Courses are more fully described at my website http://teachersactup.com/about/courses-i-teach/

  5. Choosing courses • Planning sheets for the following degrees: • MAT – World Language Education (SPED2000, Group I courses, 6 group II courses) • MAT TESOL (SPED2000, Group I courses, 6 group II courses) • MED TESOL & World Language Education (10 courses, 2 electives) • EDS TESOL & World Language Education (10 courses, 2 electives) • Ph.D. Language and Literacy Education MAT/MED (use for EDS) planning sheets should be available on our new website; hard copies shared at the advisement session August 2014

  6. LLED 7030 Academic Writing • Cahnmann-Taylor & Tolosa-Casadont (instructors) • International students required to attend in their first fall semester • Academic writing and Academic culture presented • Additional advisement

  7. Getting the Most out of your time at UGA • Research Assistance • LLED Teaching Assistance • Work Experience • Pre-K – 12 Teaching Experience • Volunteer Work • Making Community Connections Take advantage of the learning that can happen both inside and outside the formal classroom and all that life in a University town has to offer! This is your time to study, to learn, to be a student! Take full advantage!

  8. Portfolio Defense (MAT, MED, EDS) • Written Portfolio • Open a google account • Notify advisor in the first week of term in which you will defend (Fall/Spring only) • Note contents on website including 5-7 project exemplars • Oral Exam (end of term, date varies and will be sent to you) • One portfolio project • Approx. 15 minutes • Faculty and Open audience

  9. Important people to know in LLED • Liz Phillips liz11@uga.edu2014-Present graduate student administrator • ViktoriaHaskovhasko@uga.edu2012-Present, graduate coordinator • Ruth Harman rharman@uga.edu 2013-Present TWLE Program Chair • Bob Fechobfecho@uga.edu 2013-Present, Department Head • Marianne Roberts marianne@uga.edu Office Manager • Karen BraxleyKbraxley@uga.edu Coordinator for Writing Tutoring • LLEGO listserv • UGAforsalelistserve

  10. Seeking Help at UGA • Division of Academic Enhancement http://tutor.uga.edu/division-information/faculty-staff/ • Counseling https://www.uhs.uga.edu/caps/ • International student life at UGA http://isl.uga.edu/ • The Graduate School http://www.grad.uga.edu/

  11. Planning sheets, Advisement, & Course of Study: What you need to know • Required courses • TWLE faculty & instructor courses • Elective courses • POD courses • “E” courses • Requesting syllabi • Purchasing books

  12. Getting Social • August 22, Friday social at Lake Herrick –LLEGO & LLED Faculty Potluck • Sharing and attending as many extra-curricular events as possible • Red & Black • Flagpole • Websites • UGA Museum of Art • State Botanical Gardens • Community Classes • Bike Athens • Celebrating your own and others’ diversities!

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