UConn ECE French Workshop
Date and time
Location
University of Connecticut
Student Union Room 325 Storrs, CT 06269Description
On Friday, April 29th UConn Early College Experience and the UConn French department invite all certified UCon ECE French instructors to attend the annual professional development workshop.
Please park in the North or South parking garages and bring your ticket from the garage for a validation stamp. The workshop will begin at 9:00am in the Student Union Building on the 3rd floor, room 325.
Agenda:
8:30am-9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
9:00-12:30 The new French ECE conversation and culture course: 3250 Global Culture in French. Through group work and discussions, we will share ideas on designing appropriate syllabi, and finding (or recycling) authentic materials for the new course. Points to take into consideration: ACTFL world-readiness standards, separating clearly the different assessments and grades between 3268 and 3250, grading rubric(s) for oral works, various types of speaking/listening tasks, and how to teach them (from the minute problems of phonetics, all the way to class debates).
We will need to share and compare syllabi: please consider sending me ahead of time your own syllabus, whether it already is a 3250 syllabus, or an “old” 3267 one. I will bring samples from UConn also.
12:30–1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00pm Presentation by Sonia Lee, Professor Emerita of French, Trinity College: Un autre regard sur l’Afrique : celui des femmes Aujourd’hui, les écrivaines africaines de l’Afrique francophone ne se limitent plus à la fiction ou à la poésie mais s’intéressent de plus en plus à l’essai et à son dernier avatar : le documentaire. Dans cette communication, « martyrisée par le temps » comme dirait Baudelaire, Sonia Lee ne parlera que des essais, un genre que les Africaines fréquentent de plus en plus afin de mettre en question les problèmes de leurs sociétés et si possible de suggérer des solutions. Elles ne se cachent plus derrière un « Je » fictif mais parlent en leur nom en tant que citoyennes de la Cité.
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UConn Early College Experience (ECE) is a concurrent enrollment program that allows motivated high school students to take UConn courses at their high schools for both high school and college credit. Every course taken through UConn ECE is equivalent to the same course at the University of Connecticut. Students benefit by taking college courses in a setting that is both familiar and conducive to learning.
High school instructors who have been certified through the University of Connecticut teach UConn ECE courses.
Established in 1955, UConn Early College Experience is the nation's longest running concurrent enrollment program and is nationally accredited by The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).