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Spring and Summer Professional Development, 2004!A connection with local educators remains an essential part of our Center's purpose. Each year we host 4-6 workshops designed around various Latin American themes. These professional development opportunities are designed to meet the Louisiana State content standards for the theme selected. LARC staff workers very hard to ensure quality programs that will ultimately benefit the K12 classroom. If you have any suggestions in how to make LARC Professional Development further achieve our goal of meeting state standards and providing quality programming, please contact us. LARC staff are always available to hear your concerns. This summer LARC will participate in two summer conferences: Brazilian
Music and Dance Summer Institute This summer, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas-Austin and the University of Florida, will offer a Brazilian Music Institute, May 17-22, 2004. The institute will provide unique opportunities for student and community artists, as well as choral teachers to learn about Brazilian music and culture through a series of performance classes, lectures and workshops with experts in the field of Brazilian music. The week long institute features informative lectures on Brazilian music and its history, workshops focusing on vocal and guitar repertoire/technique, rehearsals, and performance showcases exploring the rich and diverse cultural/artistic traditions of Brazil. Additionally, on Saturday May 22, we will offer a workshop in Brazilian vocal and choral literature designed for choral instructors (appropriate for middle school, high school and community college). University of Florida CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be available. 2004 Summer Institutes at Iowa
State University (National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center) Ames,
Iowa This institute will offer daily Spanish immersion sessions on aspects of Mexican history and culture such as pre-Colombian origins, religion, astronomy, literature, and arts, geography and archeological sites, and the view of the environment, the conquest and colonization, and Magical Realism in works by contemporary Oaxacan authors and artists that allude to the pre-Colombian roots. Participants will experience Spanish model lessons from existing thematic units that exemplify teaching strategies and learning activities appropriate for language lessons, including pair and small group work, stimulation of higher order cognitive skills, and integration of cultural information. Participants will apply the knowledge and understandings gained by forming pairs or small groups to develop curriculum units that address language, content, and culture, and incorporate national student standards and aspects of the history and culture of Mexico. Teachers will be invited to complete and field-test their units in their own classrooms and to create action research projects to examine more closely the impact of the new materials and strategies on student learning. Informed by the field-testing and action research, teachers will be encouraged to revise and finalize their units for sharing at professional conferences or publication on their school or district’s website. For children: World Language & Culture
Camps for Children In addition to Mini College, UNO now offers two new World Language & Culture Camps in the summer of 2004, focusing on the countries, cultures, and languages of Brazil and France. The participants will learn the basics of Portuguese and/or French while being introduced to the cultures and people of these countries as well. The primary design of the language lessons is immersion-style instruction with a native speaker as well as a certified teacher. Music, visual arts, games, and skits will complement the learning experience, targeting all learning styles. Each camp lasts 5 days, 8:30 am-3:30 pm each day, and costs $160.00 per student. The dates for the Brazil Camp are June 14-18, while the France camp takes place July 12-16. For more information and to sign up please contact Mary Hicks at the UNO Critical Languages Program at 280-6388 or mihicks@uno.edu The schedule for this spring includes: Latin
America in the Elementary Classroom Sports
in Latin America Latin
American Film Series All the above events are free to attend, though registration is required. No registration is required for the Latin American Studies Film Series. We look forward to working with you. Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions or if you would like us to help you design a specialized program for your students. Last Fall 2003 our Professional Development schedule included:
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