Friday Night Forum:
Scope and Sequence in the Chinese Classroom
Presented by Pat Lo and Susan Yin Rui
NYS ALBETAC
April 9, 2010FridayNYU's Pless Hall Lounge Register now!
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Immersion Weekend for LOTE Teachers
The WSWHE BOCES Immersion Weekend for LOTE Teachers at Skidmore College will take place April 10 and 11th, with special events for Chinese teachers. Register by March 26. Details here.
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Immersion Forum at China Institute, Feb 5
More than 70 teachers attended China Institute & DCLT's forum on the Immersion Classroom, and an additional 25 participated thru the webcast. Videos and materials will be available on our website shortly.
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The Project for Developing Chinese Language Teachers is a project of New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The project is funded over three years by the Freeman Foundation.
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Greetings!
Happy Year of the Tiger!
In this issue we share with you details of a project coordinated by the NYS ALBETAC to assist school districts with the Checkpoint A assessment. This project grew out of questions from teachers, who have been working hard to provide appropriate assessments for their students. Just as Project DCLT's Friday Night Forums series grew out of requests by teachers at our original Roundtable event in Winter 2007, who needed a forum for learning and for networking.
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Friday Night Forum: This Week! March 5, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
 Chris Livaccari, Associate Director of Chinese Language Initiatives at Asia Society, master teacher of Chinese and Japanese, and NYU graduate, will share with us his techniques for creating a lively and interactive classroom with many opportunities for communication among students in the target language.
Register here. Forums are held in Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East, NYU.
The forum will be available by webcast on DCLT's website. Professional development credits will be provided by NYS ALBETAC.
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Professional Development in NYC
Upstate Cohort Scholarship Opportunity
Teachers upstate who participate in webcasts of both Project DCLT's March 5 and April 9 forum will be offered a scholarship to attend DCLT's final forum of spring 2010 in New York City on Friday, May 14. A special afternoon seminar on cultural resources will precede the forum. The event coincides with CLTA-GNY's annual conference in New York City on Saturday, May 15. For more details, contact us. |
| Standardized Assessment in New York State New York State Standardized Exams (Checkpoint A & Checkpoint B)
Middle schools and high schools in New York State administer
Languages Other Than English (LOTE) exams every year in June, setting
the benchmarks for foreign language learning. Students in 8th grade
passing the Checkpoint A exam will be awarded one year of high school
credit. Students who pass Checkpoint B exam in high school will not
only earn high school foreign language credits but also meet the
language requirement to earn a more prestigious "Regents Diploma."
Checkpoint B Exam
Currently,
New York State does not offer these exams for the Chinese language. It
does, however, gives school districts the choice of making up a local
exam equivalent to the LOTE exams, provided that the exam follows the
same guidelines as the existing state LOTE exams. NYC follows this
policy and writes its own LOTE "Regents-like" (Checkpoint B) exam in
various languages. including Chinese. High schools in NYC should pay
attention to the DOE assessment news regarding when
and how to order the Checkpoint B "Comprehensive Examination" in
Chinese.
Checkpoint A - the Secondary Language Proficiency (SLP) Exam: Collaboration among Districts
New
York State does not offer this exam in Chinese either. Many districts
outside of NYC that offer Chinese language programs are concerned with
this middle school test. A process has been set up recently to
facilitate collaboration among districts with this need. Each district
will contribute several test items which follow state guidelines and
will in turn be eligible to receive test items from other participating
districts. The goal is to have test items for all sections of the test
ready in April so districts can put together their own SLP test. For
more information, contact New York State Asian Languages Bilingual/ESL
Technical Assistance Center at ALBETAC@gmail.com. |
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Wishing you all the best in this Year of the Tiger. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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Sincerely,
Robin Harvey
NYU Project DCLT
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