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"BEFORE YOU GO, YOU SHOULD KNOW" Email Series

Volume 1: Where Are You Going?

Volume 2: Where Will You Live?

Volume 3: Staying Healthy While in the U.S. 

Volume 4: Budgeting While in the U.S.

Volume 5: Culture Shock and Homesickness

Volume 6: Making Friends and the FLTA Network

Volume 7: Final Preparations

  
2009-2010 Fulbright FLTA Summer Orientations:

SUMMER ORIENTATION WEBSITES

Columbia University, July 27-31.
http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/iie/ 

Jackson State University, August 8-12.
http://www.jsums.edu/fulbright/Welcome.html

University of Notre Dame, August 11-15.
http://www.nd.edu/~flta/ 

Brown University, August 12-16.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/LRC/flta_summer/arrival.shtml 

University of Wisconsin, Madison #1, August 12-16 and #2, August 19-23.
http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/flta09/
 

Syracuse University, August 18-22.
https://gradschpdprograms.syr.edu/events/FLTAorientation.php

Stanford University, August 27-31.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/Fulbrights/index.html

The 2009-2010 Fulbright FLTA Workshop took place on:
  • December 10 - 14, 2008 in Washington, D.C.


TO VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE WORKSHOP, CLICK HERE

FLTA Workshop Guest Speaker PowerPoint Presentations:
Gary Weaver, "Cross-Cultural Adaptation in the U.S. and Returning Home" 

Adriana Medina, "Exploring Your Conflict Management and Communication Styles"

George Marquis, "Conquering Work Overload and Improving Academic Achievement"

Antonia Schleicher, "Solutions to FLTA-Supervisor Conflicts"

FLTA Presentations:

Alya Barghathi, "Facebook, YouTube and Arabic Dubbed Disney Cartoons"

Antonina Dewi Suryantari, "CLEAR's Mashup - Creating Language Practice Exercises"

Kazeem Sanuth, "Storytellers in Class: Teaching Speaking & Writing of Foreign Language through (Learners) Stories"

Noor Hamadeh El-Khayat, "Introducing Arabic Letters to Students"

Sonsoles Lopez Torres, "Las Fiestas Espanolas"

Odilbek Kattaev, "Classroom Assessment Techniques"

Marie Christelle Tio, Marie Angeles Dano, Eda Mae Berio, "Teaching Vocabulary with Technology: Photo Story"

Syeda Farooq, "Language Teaching with the Help of Song"

Elena Krivokorytova, "BLACKBOARD: Integrating Technology into Russian Language Instruction"

Alicia Collado, "The Application of Bloom's Taxonomy to Test Design"

Mamadou Gassama, "Communicative Approach to Teaching the Demonstrative Pronouns in Wolof"

 

Columbia University - 2008 FLTA Summer Orientation
2008-2009 FLTAs during the final dinner at December's Workshop