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We are *March*-ing right along with our projects! (Are we allowed to make puns like that in a newsletter?) We have a few updates and highlights to share with you this month - including information about our new OLT course!
New to our newsletter? Explore all eleven of our projects in our three core areas of professional development, open resources, and strategic collaboration on our website!
Teaching the Whole Class: Technology for Differentiated Instruction
Learn more about creating a welcoming, inclusive learning environment and standards-based, proficiency-oriented approach and best practices for courses with heterogeneous learners (differing proficiency levels, heritage, abilities, backgrounds, etc.) in our newest OLT course about Differentiated Instruction!
Read more about the strategies needed to teach the whole class in the blog post written by our guest course developer and instructor Dr. Thomas Jesús Garza!
The application deadline for this FREE 3-week, online course is March 27th! See more details below!
The LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership at MSU will be hosting a workshop on the same topic in May 2023. Details are forthcoming (soon!) on their workshop page!
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Come join us at SLCTLS and NCOLCTL!
NLRC members will be presenting a colloquium and feedback session called Introducing the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center at the 2023 NCOLCTL Conference, held from April 21-23 in Chicago.
In addition, MSU's long-standing collaborative symposium with the University of Chicago, the Shared LCTL Symposium will be held as a pre-conference event of the NCOLCTL Conference on Thursday, April 20th.
We hope to see you there!
UPCOMING OLT OPPORTUNITIES
Learn more about our Spring 2023 Online Language Teaching courses!
Teaching the Whole Class: Technology for Differentiated Instruction
Leverage course design principles and learning technologies to facilitate proficiency development for class sections with heterogeneous learners (differing proficiency levels, heritage, abilities, backgrounds, etc.).
Application Deadline: Teaching the Whole Class: March 27th
Looking for more OLT courses?
Our summer schedule for OLT courses will be released in the April or May newsletter - keep an eye out for more details!
Other PD Opportunities and Resources
Many of our fellow Language Resource Centers and National Resource Centers have their own professional development opportunities. While we can't list all options, here are few upcoming opportunities:
- CALPER's Spring 2023 Webinar Series "Advances in World Language Pedagogy"
- CARLA's
- Spring 2023 Presentation Series
- Summer workshop on Practical Program Evaluation for Instructors of Less Commonly Taught Languages
- CERCLL's webinars on "Multiliteracies Takes on Language Teaching"
- NFLRC's resources on Online Language Pedagogy
Opportunity for LCTL Learners: Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institute
The Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) at UW-Madison offer the opportunity for participants to gain a year of language study in 8 weeks in one of over 30 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). Applications are open now!!
