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Language Talk - Episode 18

Our eighteenth Language Talk: KWLA podcast, Struggling Learners and Literacy, features hosts Laura Roché Youngworth and Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby discussing research-based strategies to engage at-risk learners in the world language classroom with author and UK professor Francis Bailey (Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language). Topics include: role of memory in learning, cultural disruption, and non-literacy oriented learners.

Learning and Teaching about Asia

 

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the University of Kentucky Asia Center is hosting a symposium focused on incorporating Asian Studies into K-12, post-secondary, and community-based education. Workshops are free and open to all educators, including K-12 teachers, graduate students, university faculty members, and non-formal educators (e.g., 4H, YMCA). For more details or to register, click here.



9:30 a.m.  

Registration

 

10:00 a.m.

Origami: A Tool of Instruction for Math & Science

Asian Music & Movement

Global Connect: Linking Kentucky’s Classrooms with the World

 

12:00 p.m.

Lunch & Keynote Address

Dr. Kristin Stapleton, Founding Director of the UK Asia Center, and Director of Asian Studies at the SUNY-Buffalo

 

2:00 p.m.  

Origami: A Tool of Instruction for Math & Science  

Asian Business & Economics

University Instructors: How to Collaborate with K-12 Teachers

 

4:00 p.m.

Workshop Review and Program Wrap-Up

 

Please contact Christine Kindler at cmkind2@uky.edu with any questions about the symposium.

Date:
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Location:
William T. Young Library
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