Monday, August 24

NEW TAs/lecturers:

8:30-2:00            SLLC Orientation and lunch (for both NEW and RETURNING TAs)

NEW and RETURNING Spanish TAs/lecturers:

2:00                        Welcome and overview of the Undergraduate Program

Dr. Manel Lacorte, Language Program Director

Dr. Roberta Lavine, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Mrs. Karen Remson, Undergraduate Advisor

Mrs. Dolores Lima, Assistant to the Language Program Director

2:30      Business meeting, course coordinators and Language Program Director (JMZ 2215-F)

NEW TAs/lectures

RETURNING TAs/lectures
2:30     First day of classes

Carmen Helena Ruzza, Ana Acedo

(JMZ 2206)

Work on course syllabi

and teaching materials

3:15     First day of classes

Carmen Helena Ruzza, Ana Acedo

(JMZ 2206)

Pick up teaching materials and microteaching assignments (JMZ 2202)

4:30-5:00            Business meeting, lecturers and Language Program Director (JMZ 2215-F)

Tuesday, August 25

NEW and RETURNING TAs/lecturers:

8:30-4:30            SLLC Orientation

Wednesday, August 26

NEW TAs:

CTE Fall 2008 GTA Orientation

RETURNING TAs/lecturers:

Work on course syllabi and teaching materials

Thursday, August 27

9:00            Coffee and pastries

9:30            Exams and assignments: grading, spreadsheets, oral participation grades,

voluntary assignments, etc.

10:30                        Meeting with Graduate Student Representatives

10:45                        Break

NEW TAs/lectures

RETURNING TAs/lectures

11:00     Writing in the Spanish as a L2 classroom at all levels

(Ana Trapp, Rebeca Moreno, Manel Lacorte)

12:00            Lunch courtesy of McGraw Hill Publishers

NEW TAs/lectures

RETURNING TAs/lectures
1:00       Microteachings

Ana Acedo, Dolores Lima,

Carmen Helena Ruzza, (JMZ 2206).

 1:00       Listening and reading comprehension:

Beyond the fill in the blank point

Roberta Lavine (JMZ 2207).
2:15       Interdisciplinary approaches and

techniques in the teaching of literature

Ana Patricia Rodríguez (JMZ 2207).

3:15        Break

3:15      Break

3:30        (only for Span 203, and 204

instructors) Orientation to QUIA

(AT&T Lab, JMZ 1215)

3:30      Feedback and error correction

Manel Lacorte (JMZ 2207)

4:15-5:15            Business meeting, course coordinators and instructors (JMZ 2215-F)

Friday, August 28

NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS (including TAs):

9:30am – 3:30pm            New Graduate Student Orientation

RETURNING TAs/lecturers:

Submit course syllabi (JMZ 2202)