Perspectives of Teaching Portuguese at Mainstream Schools: Shaping the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University

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PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHING PORTUGUESE AT MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS: SHAPING THE CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT

LOCATION: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 150

DATES:          JANUARY 30-31, 2016

Portuguese teachers and specialists from bilingual schools present their curriculum, and discuss ways to collaborate. Portuguese teachers, professors, all involved in bilingual education, are invited to participate and join the discussion.

Conference features the following guest lecturers:

• Jamie Leite on Utah’s Office of Education Portuguese Dual Language Immersion Program;
• Silvia Juhas on the successful dual immersion program at Utah public schools, Portuguese curricula, resources, textbooks, and assessment;
• Maria Cueto on Miami Dade County Public Schools’ Foreign Language Program and their vision for the future;
• Ivian Destro Boruchowski on hands-on activities and collaboration among teachers.

Miami Dade Public Schools Master Plan Points available for Miami-Dade County Public Schools participants.  Certificates of Participation granted to all participants.

Organized by:

Prof. Augusta Vono (FIU Portuguese Program)

Prof. Beatriz Cariello (FIU Adjunct Faculty, FIU/MDCPS/Consulate General of Brazil South Florida K-12 Portuguese Consortium Curriculum Specialist, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Teacher, AOTP Board Member)

Ivian Destro Boruchowski (FIU Ph.D. Student, Curriculum and Instruction, and Bilingual Education Researcher, AOTP Advisory Board Member).

Registration is free. To register please send an e-mail to bcariell@fiu.edu

Presented by LACC with support from its U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant. Co-sponsored by FIU Department of Modern Languages and the FIU Portuguese Program; Consulate General of Brazil in Miami; AOTP – American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese; Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Short Bios

Jamie Leite is the Portuguese Dual Language Immersion Director for the Utah State Office of Education. She is responsible for developing curriculum, providing professional development, and overseeing six Portuguese immersion programs across the state.  She works as Program Director for the Utah Portuguese STARTALK grant, which offers training for 28 teachers and summer camps for 400 students. As a member of the Utah immersion team, she helps with the administration of Utah’s immersion model at the school, district, and state levels.  Jamie also acts as the Dual Language Immersion Coordinator for Provo School District in Provo, Utah. In 2013, she began teaching the course Foundations of Dual Language Immersion, at Utah Valley University.  She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree from Utah Valley University, and is currently obtaining a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Utah. Her master’s thesis was a history of Utah immersion titled, Mainstreaming Dual Language Immersion: The Utah Model for Replicable and Sustainable Language Education. In 2015, Jamie Leite and Raquel Cook published the chapter “Utah: Making Immersion Mainstream” in the book Building Bilingual Education Systems: Forces, Mechanisms and Counterweights, edited by Peeter Mehisto, and printed by the Cambridge University Press.  Prior to joining the Utah immersion team, Jamie was a classroom teacher for six years. She is the parent of two Portuguese immersion students.

Silvia Juhas is an expert in Portuguese pedagogy and literacy who currently works as the Portuguese dual language immersion coordinator in Utah.  In this role, she works on the development of curriculum for all content areas and serves as an instructional coach for Portuguese teachers around the state. Silvia is the author of Linguagens, the Portuguese literacy program which was originally designed for native Brazilians and later adapted for immersion students.  The program is used from first through fifth grades in Utah’s six Portuguese schools, as well as in many public and private schools in Brazil.  Silvia graduated as a speech therapist and has a post-graduate degree in Education with a specialization in the Portuguese language.  Before coming to the United States, she worked for 23 years as an educator, curriculum developer, and administrator. She helped build the successful Portuguese program in the Fundação Bradesco which serves low-income Brazilian students by offering them a free private school education.  In 2015, Silvia published a chapter in the book A compreensão leitora nos anos iniciais.

María del Rosario Cueto graduated from the University of Havana School of Foreign Languages where she obtained the degree of Licentiate in English Language and Literature majoring in Linguistics. In 1983, Professor Cueto co-authored an English Language textbook (Lengua Inglesa I y II), which became standard teaching material at the Havana University Foreign Languages School. Throughout her teaching years in Cuba, she took and helped organize various post-graduate courses on Linguistics, Methodology, Phonetics and Innovative Language Teaching Methods, and participated in numerous academic activities and exchanges. In 1995, she moved to the United States with her family, where she continued exercising her teaching vocation first at Florida National University and Miami-Dade College as an English professor, and then as an ESOL teacher and department chair with the Miami-Dade County Public School System. In 2010, Mrs. Cueto received the Excellence in Teaching State Award for academic achievements with MDCPS. In 2011, she was assigned to the MDCPS Bilingual and World Languages Department as an ESOL Specialist. In 2013 she was given a new assignment as Curriculum Support Specialist for Secondary World Languages in the Division of Bilingual Education and World Languages, a position which she currently holds. Mrs. Cueto holds a master’s degree in English Language and Literature, and is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of Florida National University.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Tentative)

 Title: Perspectives of teaching Portuguese at Mainstream Schools: shaping the curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Summary: Come and listen to Portuguese Teachers from Bilingual Schools present their curriculum and discuss ways to collaborate. All Portuguese teachers, university professors, all involved in bilingualism, leading foreign or heritage language students are invited to participate and join the discussion.

Date and place: ‪January 30-31, 2016 at Florida International University, Modesto A. Maidique Campus, 11200 SW 8^th Street, Miami, Florida, 33199, Graham Center Room 150 (GC 150).

SATURDAY – January 30, 2016

8:30 am – Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am – Opening Remarks by Prof. Augusta Vono (FIU Department of Modern Languages), Liesl Picard (FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center), Beatriz Cariello (FIU, Miami Dade County Public Schools and AOTP- American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese), and Ivian Destro Boruchowski (AOTP- American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese)

‪9:15 am – Keynote Address:  “Foreign Language Programs at Miami-Dade County Public Schools:  Where are We? Where Do We Want to be?”

Maria Cueto, Curriculum Support Specialist, Division of Bilingual Education and World Languages, Miami Dade County Public Schools

‪10:15 am – 10:30 am – Break

10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Utah State’s Portuguese Curriculum

Jamie Leite, Director, Dual Language Program, Office of Education, Utah

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch on your own

‪1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Dual language Program Curriculum

TBA, International Charter School of Rhode Island

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm – Break

2:45 – 4:15 pm – MDCPS’ Ada Merritt K-8 Center’s Dual Language Program Curriculum

TBA, Ada Merritt K-8 Center

4:15 – 5:30 pm – MDCPS’ Downtown Doral Charter Elementary School Dual Language Program Curriculum

TBA, Downtown Doral Charter Elementary School

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SUNDAY – January 31, 2016

9:00 am – 10:30 am – Textbook Presentation

Silvia Juhas, Author

10:30 am – 11:30 am – Assessment

Jamie Leite, Director, Dual Language Program, Office of Education, Utah

11:30 am -12:30 pm – Hands-On Activities and Collaboration

Ivian Destro Boruchowski, AOTP

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm – Evaluation and Next Steps

Ivian Destro Boruchowski

1:00 pm – Conclusion and Certificates