• August 2, 2011

HUF to host teacher training workshop

Syed Hyder Akbar, HUF Associate Director for Urdu, leads a language teaching workshop session.
Syed Hyder Akbar, HUF Associate Director for Urdu, leads a language teaching workshop session.

At the beginning of each year, the Hindi Urdu Flagship holds a workshop on teaching South Asian Languages to undergraduate students. The primary purpose of this workshop is to train our new TAs, but it also provides an excellent opportunity for a general exchange of views on language teaching, and we encourage anyone involved in South Asian language teaching at UT to attend. The schedule includes a useful session on the use of Blackboard (the full schedule is listed below). The workshop will be held on Monday, August 22nd from 2-5pm in the Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118). If you wish to attend, please inform Selina Keilani (selinak@austin.utexas.edu) by Tuesday, August 9th.

Here is the full schedule:

2:00  Rupert Snell: An overview of classroom practices

2:45  Jonathan Seefeldt: Using Blackboard for course documents, communication and grades

3:15   Tea/coffee

3:30   Jishnu Shankar: “Authentic materials” and their delivery through Powerpoint 

4:15
General discussion

5:00 end.

And, as a preview of what to expect, here’s a session from a past HUF teaching workshop: