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 [email protected] your advisor
• Yahoo “Mishas_advising” listserv
• Subscribe [email protected]
• 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 [email protected] 2014-Present graduate student administrator
• Viktoria Hasko [email protected] 2012-Present, graduate coordinator
• Ruth Harman [email protected] 2013-Present TWLE Program Chair
• Bob Fecho [email protected] 2013-Present, Department Head
• Marianne Roberts [email protected] Office Manager
• Karen Braxley [email protected] 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!