Curricular Design and Instructor Training for Today's World

“Curricular Design and Instructor Training for Today’s World,” explores new and innovative ways of reaching language learners pre-COVID and beyond. These new methods include Open Architecture (OA) Curricular Design implemented in a Hebrew department, social justice pedagogy as a new Arabic class framework, and new tools for Arabic virtual teaching following the era of teaching online during the pandemic. Immediately following these presentations and the brief Q and A, 3 breakout rooms will open for 30 minutes off of this Zoom meeting. Individuals will be intially be sent to a random breakout room and then be able to chose which one they want to go to by selecting the breakout room symbol at the bottom of the screen. No recording will occur in the break-out rooms. Breakout room A will continue the discussion of Arabic teacher training in the post-COVID era. Breakout room B will focus on the use of Social Justice Pedagogy in language teaching in general and how it can be incorporated to make students into responsible citizens, and breakout room C will focus on the use of Open Architecture Curricular Design and unpack moving this style of learning from individual classrooms to the departmental level.
Katrien Vanpee is the Arabic Program Director at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches various levels of Arabic as well as courses on Arabic literature and culture, and trains graduate instructors in the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic, with a focus on literature and linguistics, from Georgetown University. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Arabic Literature, Modern Language Journal, and several edited volumes dedicated to foreign language pedagogy. Her workshop and conference presentations have centered on language program direction and curriculum design, instructional strategies for the foreign language classroom, and modern Arabic poetry. Additionally, she regularly speaks as a guest lecturer on the cultural heritage of the Arabian Peninsula, and is a certified ACTFL OPI tester for Arabic.
Dr. Mai Zaki is an Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Middlesex University, UK. Prior to moving to the UAE, she was a Lecturer at Middlesex University, UK. She taught courses in linguistics, translation and Arabic as a foreign language in universities in Egypt, the UK and the UAE at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, translation studies, Arabic as a foreign language and digital humanities. She has professional experience in curriculum development, program accreditation, teacher training, lexicography and translation review.
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