Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)

The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the fifteen Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education. According to the website, CALPER's particular focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning and assessment. The center thus far has developed innovative teaching materials, created online professional development resources, offered workshops for educators, and more.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

National African Language Resource Center (NALRC)

The mission of the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) at the University of Indiana is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities. The intent is to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction in the United States.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)

The goal of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Similar to other language resource centers, CASLS creates language learning and teaching materials, offers professional development opportunities, and conducts research on foreign language learning.

Material Type: Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Catalyst - Professional Growth Platform

Catalyst is a social, online portfolio based on the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) framework. Developed out of a collaboration between the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) and Professionals in Education Advancing Research and Language Learning (PEARLL), it allows world language educators to: 1) set professional goals, 2) identify their strengths, 3) upload work samples and reflections to document ongoing growth, 4) connect to professional learning resources, including small group peer-to-peer mentoring, 5) create and participate in a professional group, and 6) reflect on their growth over time.

Material Type: Interactive

Authors: CASLS, PEARLL

Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar

Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar was developed for intermediate level Turkish language courses at the University of Texas at Austin. Intermediate learners and their instructors may use it for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime. The lessons in Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar integrate reading, listening and viewing comprehension, writing and speaking practice, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural activities. Dozens of audio and video clips of Turkish speakers describing their lives, their culture, and their country support and enhance these activities. The Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar textbook, online interactive H5P exercises, and Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHyPBVzLiIwUFgXfxxkcvA) comprise a media-rich open educational resource (OER) developed by Dr. Jeannette Okur at the University of Texas at Austin and published by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning under the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant #P229A180003, with additional support from the UT Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services and the UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Jeannette Okur

A Beginner to Advanced Level K'iche' Online Course

Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al K’iche’! is a set of beginner online course materials for K’iche’, a Mayan language of Guatemala

Material Type: Lesson

Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies: Course Extensions

This website was produced by students in the Kevorkian Center's MA proseminar "Problems and Methods in Middle Eastern Studies" and includes extensions from the Center's 2020-2021 Virtual Series "Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies" that explored new avenues of research, teaching, and life in a digital age as it pertains to Middle Eastern Studies. Students created extended reflections, gathered primary and secondary readings, and completed field assignments related to each of the events in the series and published them here alongside the embedded videos from each of the events in the series.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Visualizing the Middle East: Course Website

VISUAL CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST MOVING IMAGES FROM DAGUERREOTYPES TO SMARTPHONES: This course examines changing technologies of image capture/(re)production/circulation in the Middle East from the turn of the century through today. We examine historical moments through an appreciation of changing technological advancements of visual material. From changing printing practices on postcards, consumer grade cameras, increasing photographs in periodicals, TVs & VHS, leading up to networked technologies and the digital morass in which we now live. Across the course, emergent technological capabilities of visuality become entwined in issues of nationalism, revolt, consumerism, tourism, changing gender roles, and boundaries of sexuality. The second half of the course focuses on the contemporary landscape of smartphones/internet/apps/digitality and the dizzying array of visual material in which we now drown. From protests to citizen journalists, emergent political movements and social media on smartphones, from Grindr to surveillance, selfies, & sex. Finally, there is an emphasis for students to develop and integrate visual material in their developing research agendas. We will explore some visual methods across the course and you will learn how to create a digital story paying special attention to not simply using visual material as the "representation" of your argument.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Syllabus

Author: Jared McCormick

India and South Asia: From Area Studies to Ethnic Studies | High School Social Studies Course

India and South Asia: From Area Studies to Ethnic Studies Course design by Rachel Heilman, Issaquah High School. Developed with the support of Sunila Kale (Associate Professor of International Studies) and the South Asia Center (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington), with funding from the U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers Program. Dear Colleague, I hope you are able to implement some version of this course at your institution! I have it aligned to Washington State Social Studies Standards, but it is right in line with Common Core-driven expectations and should fit well with any state’s standards. This course also very much supports the new Washington Ethnic Studies Framework. ––Rachel Heilman, March 2022 Course Description How can understanding a particular region both shape and enhance our understanding of ourselves and the world around us? As we gain knowledge, how do we both recognize and cross the political boundaries we see on maps? In this one-semester course we will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine India and wider South Asia as we work to conceptualize the ways people, power, geography, and the past shape the region. For the purposes of this course South Asia will include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In our role as global citizens we will also expand our inquiries to the web of connections between South Asia and our own individual and social identities.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study, Full Course, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan, Module, Syllabus, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Authors: Rachel Heilman, University of Washington South Asia Center

LLILAS Benson Curriculum

This website features high-quality, critical teaching and learning materials focused on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and African Diaspora studies and collections at the Benson Latin American Collection. Resources include K-12 lesson plans, undergraduate assignments, digital primary sources, and digital scholarship tool guides.

Material Type: Lesson

IUPUI's Global Learning Module for First-Year Students

IUPUI's Global Learning Module for First-Year Students was created as a supplemental module for IUPUI's First-Year Seminar (FYS) course, but has been adapted slightly to serve as a resource and template for other colleges and universities nationwide. You can use this module to integrate global learning into face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses; it's very flexible. All of the materials in this module can be customized to suit the needs of your students and course. The module includes: - introductory pages on global learning, culture, and critical reflection that include both student and instructor resources; - pedagogical resources for globally-focused interactive in-class activities; - two customizable globally-focused assignments; and - informational pages for students and instructors who are interested in exploring other global learning opportunities.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Module

Authors: Hilary E. Kahn, Lauren Jobe, Leslie Bozeman