About the workshop
On February 9-11, 2017, the Univeristy of Chicago Language Center hosted its first Mellon Winter Workshop. This was a dynamic workshop showcasing reverse design and innovative pedagogy across languages and skills, with guest trainers from the University of Texas at Austin. Attendees left the workshop with a wealth of outcome-based course designs and assessments, as well as the means to create and sources to discover materials in writing systems, grammar and vocabulary, and reading and listening comprehension. The slides from each presentation are below, followed by a brief introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs); the full agenda can be found here.
Presentations
- Reverse Design: Listening Comprehension – Catherine Baumann
- Designing Backwards, Moving Forward: On Reaching Oral Proficiency in Russian – Thomas Garza
- Writing in Persian: Implications for the Reverse Design – Blake Atwood
- Reverse Design and the Flipped Classroom – Thomas Garza
- From Comprehension to Understanding: Critical Reading Across Languages and Cultures – Per Urlaub
- (Cost-)Effective Vocabulary Instruction – Catherine Baumann and Nicholas Swinehart
- Grammar by Night, Meaningful Interaction by Day – Nancy Guilloteau
- Foreground Speaking and Interaction in the Classroom: The Intensive Model, The Flipped Classroom and Reverse Design – Thomas Garza
- Open by Design: Foreign Language Materials for the 21st Century – Carl Blyth