Teaching Foreign Language (FL): Elementary School Practicum

Catalog description

Provides the instructional foundations to successfully teach a Foreign Language in the elementary school classroom. Miami students with proficiency and background in a foreign language (e.g. ASL, Chinese, French, German, Latin, Spanish) read, discuss, and explore theories and best practices in language teaching and learning. Students apply this theoretical knowledge, transfer course skills, and deepen their understanding of course content as they independently author and implement language and culture lessons in the Talawanda After School Foreign Language Program (TASFLP). Students collaborate with their faculty mentor and peers to reflect and conduct self-assessments on their teaching experiences throughout the course in order to improve their planning and implementation of language and cultural content in the program and beyond. Prerequisite: Proficiency and background in a foreign language.