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Third Annual Redesign Alliance Conference March 28-30, 2010 Disciplinary Roundtable: Humanities and Writing Intensive Elementary Spanish Redesign Concepción Godev
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Elementary Spanish Redesign * Third Annual Redesign Alliance Conference March 28-30, 2010 Disciplinary Roundtable: Humanities and Writing Intensive Elementary Spanish Redesign Concepción Godev [on behalf of the UNCC Elementary Spanish Redesign Committee: Jasoon An, Concepción Godev (chair), Ann Gonzalez, Heather McCullough, Ton Pujol, Garvey Pyke, Adriana Vega-Hidalgo, and Sandra Watts] University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Elementary Spanish Redesign * general information • University of North Carolina at Charlotte • Elementary Spanish (first semester and second) 60 sections per semester 30 students per section 3000 students per year (including summer) 3 contact hours in two days • Redesign goals: lowering cost and improving academic instruction and performance. • Project status: completed the first semester pilot study and the second semester pilot study is underway.
Elementary Spanish Redesign * initial planning • Review of and consultation with existing redesigned programs (Spring 2008) • Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) informs languages department about NCAT’s program “Colleagues Committed to Redesign Projects (Spring 2009) • CTL, in consultation with languages department committee, drafts course redesign NCAT proposal (Spring-Summer 2009) • Lesson plans, online activities selection and pre-pilot hybrid first-semester course (Spring-Summer 2009)
Elementary Spanish Redesign * initial planning • Administrative support (5 colleagues): department chair, associate chair, Language Resource Center director, two colleagues from Center for Teaching and Learning. • Faculty support (4 colleagues): elementary Spanish coordinator, specialist in second language acquisition (associate professor), two lecturers. • Grant support ($18,190): Office of Distance Education-$3,000 (Spring 2008); Academic Program Improvement-$4,500 (Fall 2008); Scholarship of Teaching and Learning-$10,690 (Spring-Summer 2010). • Research support (statistical analysis) (1 colleague): psychology professor.
Elementary Spanish Redesign * student reactions • challenge: 59% of the redesigned course students wanted to take a redesigned second-semester Spanish. • solution: changing expectations by changing study habits. • challenge: 13% withdrawals • solution: better training on making the most of the academic support services available.
Elementary Spanish Redesign * student reactions • challenge: students need to make a more efficient use of the academic support available. • solution: strategic scheduling of tutoring services. • challenge: students need to improve the pace of their online work. • solution: more individualized learning support from instructors and tutors.
Elementary Spanish Redesign * alternate staffing • 16 hours of tutoring per week (online and face to face). • 11 graduate tutors. • 2 undergraduate tutors. • graduate students are trained and supervised by elementary Spanish coordinator
Elementary Spanish Redesign * contact information and discussion Concepción Godev University of North Carolina at Charlotte 704 687 8783 cgodev@uncc.edu