Tuesday, December 17, 2013
SLO Reporting Day!
The Foreign Languages Department SLO reporters gathered for our Fall, 2013 SLO reporting meeting on the morning of December 17. Last year, our now retired Dept. Chair, Tom Blair, instituted what has now become a twice-a-year tradition that we really look forward to. We've found that, more than just a time to report SLOs, this gathering has become an important part of our assessment process. It gives us an opportunity to get together across our nine language programs, not only to report our SLO assessments, but to share our assessment techniques and our plans for improvement. Languages represented were Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
World Languages Day!
Our first annual World Languages Day took place on November 14, 2013 in the Smith Hall Cafeteria during the lunch hour. Purpose? To celebrate the diversity of languages taught and spoken at CCSF. What is better than good food and toe-tapping music? Plus, free prizes! And, we had a chance to get together, see our students, meet new students, and get to know a few of our new administrators who dropped by.
The 29th Street Swingtet provided live music in the tradition of Django Reinhardt's "gypsy jazz", the Culinary program provided international food as part of the lunch service, and the Foreign Languages Department faculty were on hand to inform students about our spring schedule and to facilitate a free raffle for prizes! Special thanks go to Matt Parkhurst's American Sign Language students for staffing the AMSL table. Be sure to join us next year!
The 29th Street Swingtet provided live music in the tradition of Django Reinhardt's "gypsy jazz", the Culinary program provided international food as part of the lunch service, and the Foreign Languages Department faculty were on hand to inform students about our spring schedule and to facilitate a free raffle for prizes! Special thanks go to Matt Parkhurst's American Sign Language students for staffing the AMSL table. Be sure to join us next year!
Monday, November 18, 2013
Technical Review for Course Outlines of Record
Some of you have volunteered to be the contact persons for your language and to work on outlines to be revised between now and early next semester. This is very important, as the College will not let us offer courses with outlines older than 2004 for Fall 2014. The ultimate goal is that we revise our outlines on a 6 year cycle so none of our outlines is older than 6 years. The sooner we get to that place the better! It is important for accreditation.
Prepare/Revise your Course Outline of Record.
- Find the old outline on the Office of Instruction website. OR prepare your new course outline.
- Revise/prepare your outline using the Curriculum Committee Handbook and the TRACE checklist.
- Be sure that the Major Learning Outcomes use leading verbs from Bloom’s taxonomy that can be found on this list (p. 46-48 of the Curriculum Committee handbook- link below).
- Submit your revised draft Course Outline to Technical Review. Watch this 2 minute video to see how to do this. http://youtu.be/u-sVJktaCB4 (Or just scroll down to see it)
- After you have submitted your outline to Tech Review, wait a while. After the review is complete, you will receive an email from your Reviewer with a link to a page containing suggestions to make your outline perfect. (In some instances, you may be able to skip directly to step #6). SAVE THIS EMAIL. YOU WILL NEED THAT LINK AGAIN!
- Make the changes suggested by your reviewer.
- Then, resubmit your outline following the instructions on the page that is linked in the email from your reviewer. Be sure to let your reviewer know that you’ve submitted a new version of the outline.
- If you’ve done what was asked, your reviewer will indicate that your item is “ready to “agendize” the outline. You’re almost done!
- Once your reviewer has agendized the outline, you’ll need to follow the directions on the page in the link (referred to in #3). You’ll make a final copy, get the appropriate signatures, then send to the Curriculum Committee co-chair.
- BE SURE TO SEND A COPY of your Word file TO CHARLES AND CAROL.
- Be sure to attach a note to the envelope or outline!
- No note, no service!
- In the note, state which meeting the outline is for,
- include the TRACE checklist,
- and any other relevant information.
- Curriculum Committee Website: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/
- Technical Review Page: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/tech_review.html
- Curriculum Committee Handbook: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/handbook.html
- Curriculum Committee Calendar: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/calendar.html
- TRACE Checklist: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/FormsTemplates/TRACEv2.pdf
Watch the video:
Sunday, October 20, 2013
CCCFLC Northern California- October 18, 2013
A Brief Report on the Northern California Meeting of the CCCFLC, October 18, 2013
by Carol Reitan
Intrepid CCCFLC conference attendees and presenters made it to CCSF's new Chinatown Campus/Center in spite of the first day of the BART strike. Participants came from CCSF, Mt. San Antonio College, and Moorpark College. Languages represented were Chinese, French, Japanese, Pilipino, and Spanish.
For some of us, the day started really early with a great view of a SF Bay sunrise.
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The morning included a video welcome from CCSF's Jeff Lamb, the Dean of the School of English and Foreign Languages.
Dean Lamb's remarks sparked a discussion of different types of languages for the professions courses that had been offered at various schools and how successful they had been, or not been. It was decided to take Lamb's suggestion and investigate new versions of these courses, especially in the medical field in Spanish, Chinese, and Pilipino, going forward.
Next, Cengage showed us the features of their newest version of iLrn (digital component of many of their textbooks). Questions and spirited discussion followed.
Finally, our beleaguered presenter, Dr. Joi Barrios, made her way to Chinatown from Berkeley, having just learned of the strike that morning. We were so happy she made it! Her talk entitled, "The Filipino American Activist as Heritage Language Learner: Notes on Language and Diaspora Nationalisms" was fascinating.
Her presentation and subsequent discussion taught us about the history of the Philippines and the current situation there as well as much about the characteristics of the typical heritage language learner. Our Chinese and Spanish teachers were especially interested in the distinction made between heritage language learner and speaker and took away much to apply to their own classes.
Then we made a short trek to the New Asia restaurant. We were treated like royalty and the food was terrific.
In the afternoon, Dr. Barrios returned and participated in an animated discussion. Cengage also returned to show us how the new iLrn aids in the assessing and reporting of student learning outcomes.
The heart of the CCCFLC is the people that attend and make it happen. Thank you to all of you for making it happen once again this year.
The CCCFLC Day in Pictures
by Carol Reitan
Intrepid CCCFLC conference attendees and presenters made it to CCSF's new Chinatown Campus/Center in spite of the first day of the BART strike. Participants came from CCSF, Mt. San Antonio College, and Moorpark College. Languages represented were Chinese, French, Japanese, Pilipino, and Spanish.
For some of us, the day started really early with a great view of a SF Bay sunrise.
The morning included a video welcome from CCSF's Jeff Lamb, the Dean of the School of English and Foreign Languages.
Dean Lamb's remarks sparked a discussion of different types of languages for the professions courses that had been offered at various schools and how successful they had been, or not been. It was decided to take Lamb's suggestion and investigate new versions of these courses, especially in the medical field in Spanish, Chinese, and Pilipino, going forward.
Next, Cengage showed us the features of their newest version of iLrn (digital component of many of their textbooks). Questions and spirited discussion followed.
Finally, our beleaguered presenter, Dr. Joi Barrios, made her way to Chinatown from Berkeley, having just learned of the strike that morning. We were so happy she made it! Her talk entitled, "The Filipino American Activist as Heritage Language Learner: Notes on Language and Diaspora Nationalisms" was fascinating.
Her presentation and subsequent discussion taught us about the history of the Philippines and the current situation there as well as much about the characteristics of the typical heritage language learner. Our Chinese and Spanish teachers were especially interested in the distinction made between heritage language learner and speaker and took away much to apply to their own classes.
Then we made a short trek to the New Asia restaurant. We were treated like royalty and the food was terrific.
In the afternoon, Dr. Barrios returned and participated in an animated discussion. Cengage also returned to show us how the new iLrn aids in the assessing and reporting of student learning outcomes.
The heart of the CCCFLC is the people that attend and make it happen. Thank you to all of you for making it happen once again this year.
(This inspirational poem and beautiful artwork is on the east side of the building.)
The CCCFLC Day in Pictures
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