Try Something New

It is time to start thinking about the 2017-18 School Year. Hard to believe, right? IU08 is gearing up! Last spring we began to imagine bringing World Languages to students in a virtual environment. The World of Learning brought together a great team of teachers and virtual specialist to showcase the promise and benefits of a virtual World Language program.

With dynamic courses built in the Canvas environment - we bring the ACTFL Can Do statements to life in our virtual classrooms. We are dedicated to offering a course framework that will provide engaging asynchronous content which supplements the lively synchronous (live) lessons that stretch students to become independent, goal-oriented learners. By working in a research based model we will ask students, in our 6E model, to:

Engage in creating their own learning goals,
Explore activities that help them to meet their targeted learning,
Examine through a self-check phase where the learning facilitators engage students in thinking about the work they are doing,
Explain and Elaborate on what they have learned through a product or project that demonstrates learning, and finally,
Express and Reflect on the connections they made to learning and their learning goals.

As students experience both high expectations and support they will master the World Language and become agents of their own learning. A Habits of Mind checklist will act as the guidepost for students to think about how they learn and how they are responsible for their learning.

We would be excited to have you join our MOOC to experience a sampling of our courses or to talk with us about how a Virtual World Language program might benefit your students.

For more information email pmulroy@iu08.org
Or call Dr. Pat Mulroy 570-350-4646

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