Program: Institute at Occidental College: Building Leadership in the Mandarin Language Teaching Community
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT STRANDS: Occidental College Foreign Language Project programs are designed to enable teachers to take on leadership roles first in their classrooms, then at their school sites, later within their school districts and finally in agencies entrusted to advance California's school reform agenda. Foundations 1-4 build school-site leadership; the Invitational Leadership Development Program (ILDP) builds leadership capacity for use beyond the school site. During the ILDP participants create an awareness-level Framework-aligned professional development program. THE PROGRAM WILL HIGHLIGHT THE FOLLOWING CONCEPTS: (1) The five stages (formulaic, created, planned, extended, tailored) and five components (context, function, content, text-type, accuracy) of the Language Learning Continuum; (2) Objectives for knowledge, for communication, and for control of vocabulary and structure; (3) Form-focused and meaning-focused instructional activities; (4) Input activities (listening and reading for interpretive and interpersonal communication); (5) Output activities (speaking and writing for interpersonal and presentational communication); (6) Formative and summative assessment including the COCI, the CWCA and the CRCM. PARTICIPANTS WILL DEVELOP COMPETENCIES IN: (1) Selecting and organizing appropriate content; (2) Demonstrating, modeling, facilitating practice, and providing feedback; (3) Evaluating the impact of program components on participants; (4) Enhancing performance of English learners and students with low skills in reading and writing. PARTICIPANT LEADERSHIP: Participants who are able to deliver Framework-aligned awareness level professional development programs will be asked to become Team Members for L.A. or I.E. STARS. They will be invited to work with Program Leaders to deliver segments of the Site-Based Institutes and will be recommended by L.A. or I.E. STARS to deliver professional development services to low-performing schools and districts desirous of awareness-level programs. Participants who are unable to deliver awareness-level, Framework-aligned professional development programs will be provided guidance and support from the site in order to improve their performance.
