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Solutions for Virtual Learning

White Paper - Solutions for Virtual Learning for World Languages Anytime-Anywhere Patricia Mulroy, Ed. D. February 2017 When faced with the question, ‘How do we provide high quality world language instruction for all children who need/want the experience,” how do you and your team answer? At IU 8, we answer, World of Learning! The World of Learning provides a vast array of options for schools and districts to deliver live, virtual World Language Instruction. Whether you need a single enrollment or full scale support, IU8 and the World of Learning can help with solutions. Who are we? The IU8 World of Learning is a team of people who are passionate about creating meaningful World Language learning experiences. Most of our teachers are native speakers and have lived in the culture and learned in the language they teach! Additionally, most of our teachers have earned an M.Ed. or other graduate credential in the target language or education. Our tea...

Practice Becoming

Practice Becoming “. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow”. Kurt Vonnegut We are back at it folks! Excited to be working with teachers and learners! Teachers are amazing. I get the good fortune to meet lots of them in our World of Learning. What I know is that they are practicing all the time. I see them working hard at practicing the art of teaching as they learn new tasks and share professional learning each summer. I have the good fortune to work with amazing teachers at IU8’s World of Learning and as I support school districts through our Open Campus Initiative. I talk to people who care about learners, as people, every...

Relationships that ARE Learner Centered

Building Relationships I remember it like it was yesterday. Chris, the guidance secretary, asked me if I had a minute to talk when I made my usual check in on the way to lunch. She pulled me aside to let me that one of my students stopped by most days after PE class and was sad. You see, I let kids pick their own partners! What I thought was a great way to give the kids choice and explore sometimes challenging new skills with someone they were comfortable, turned out to leave this young learner alone. She didn’t have friends in this class and often found herself waiting at the fringe to get a partner, that probably felt rejected, too. ** Why did she go to the guidance secretary and not me? ** Maybe she was right - I didn’t even notice? ** Why would she trust me? ** How can she really learn from me if she doesn’t feel safe and valued? This lesson, one of isolating a student who wanted to be engaged, has stayed with me now for 25 years! I am thankful for Chris, who ...

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