Misha’s Advising

Fall 2014

MISHA’S ADVISING

GETTING STARTED• Who am I?

• Who are you?

• Expectations from the program of study

• Expectations from your advisor

• How to have positive year(s) with us in TWLE/LLED/COE/UGA [and what do all those acronyms mean?]

YOUR ADVISOR• Dr. Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor cahnmann@uga.edu your advisor

• Yahoo “Mishas_advising” listserv

• Subscribe mishas_advising-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

• Course, funding, publishing, job opportunities, and other listings

• When do you meet with your advisor?

• Once every fall for face to face academic advisement

• Email for course approval in spring—send a list of 5-6 courses you are considering with #s, professor names, and any time conflicts. You may also keep and send an updated planning sheet to keep track of what has been taken and what needs to be taken

• 15 minute face to face appointments scheduled as needed, Thursday mornings

GET TO KNOW YOUR ADVISOR IN A CLASS SHE TEACHES:• LLED 7710 Writing Cultures: A Poetry Workshop for Creative Educators [F14]

• LLED 8045 Advanced Poetry for Creative Educators [Summer]

• LLED 6631 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education [SPR14]

• LLED 8650 Translingual Memoir

• LLED 8590 Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities [SPR14]

• LLED 7504 Theatre for Reflective Practice in the Language, Literacy, and TESOL Classroom

• LLED 7504E Reflective Practice

• LLED 7506 Teaching Literature in Spanish for the K-12 Foreign Language Classroom [F2014]

• **Interested in a course taught and guided in Summer in Oaxaca, Mexico? Let me know!

• Workshops: Spanish for Non-Spanish Speakers: What Every Educator Should Know

• **Courses are more fully described at my website

http://teachersactup.com/about/courses-i-teach/

CHOOSING COURSES• Planning sheets for the following degrees:

• MAT – World Language Education (SPED2000, Group I courses, 6 group II courses)

• MAT TESOL (SPED2000, Group I courses, 6 group II courses)

• MED TESOL & World Language Education (10 courses, 2 electives)

• EDS TESOL & World Language Education (10 courses, 2 electives)

• Ph.D. Language and Literacy Education

MAT/MED (use for EDS) planning sheets should be available on our new website; hard copies shared at the advisement session August 2014

LLED 7030 ACADEMIC WRITING• Cahnmann-Taylor & Tolosa-Casadont (instructors)

• International students required to attend in their first fall semester

• Academic writing and Academic culture presented

• Additional advisement

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TIME AT UGA

• Research Assistance

• LLED Teaching Assistance

• Work Experience

• Pre-K – 12 Teaching Experience

• Volunteer Work

• Making Community Connections

Take advantage of the learning that can happen both inside and outside the formal classroom and all that life in a University town has to offer!

This is your time to study, to learn, to be a student! Take full advantage!

PORTFOLIO DEFENSE (MAT, MED, EDS)• Written Portfolio

• Open a google account

• Notify advisor in the first week of term in which you will defend (Fall/Spring only)

• Note contents on website including 5-7 project exemplars

• Oral Exam (end of term, date varies and will be sent to you)

• One portfolio project

• Approx. 15 minutes

• Faculty and Open audience

IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO KNOW IN LLED• Liz Phillips liz11@uga.edu 2014-Present graduate student administrator

• Viktoria Hasko vhasko@uga.edu 2012-Present, graduate coordinator

• Ruth Harman rharman@uga.edu 2013-Present TWLE Program Chair

• Bob Fecho bfecho@uga.edu 2013-Present, Department Head

• Marianne Roberts marianne@uga.edu Office Manager

• Karen Braxley Kbraxley@uga.edu Coordinator for Writing Tutoring

• LLEGO listserv

• UGAforsale listserve

SEEKING HELP AT UGA• Division of Academic Enhancement http://tutor.uga.edu/division-information/faculty-staff/

• Counseling https://www.uhs.uga.edu/caps/

• International student life at UGA http://isl.uga.edu/

• The Graduate School http://www.grad.uga.edu/

PLANNING SHEETS, ADVISEMENT, & COURSE OF STUDY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW• Required courses

• TWLE faculty & instructor courses

• Elective courses

• POD courses

• “E” courses

• Requesting syllabi

• Purchasing books

GETTING SOCIAL• August 22, Friday social at Lake Herrick –LLEGO & LLED Faculty Potluck

• Sharing and attending as many extra-curricular events as possible

• Red & Black

• Flagpole

• Websites

• UGA Museum of Art

• State Botanical Gardens

• Community Classes

• Bike Athens

• Celebrating your own and others’ diversities!