STARTALK 2009 - Teacher Certification Summit

• Welcome: Catherine Ingold Director, National Foreign Language Center University of Maryland, College Park
• Dan Scott Director, Foreign Language Program Office Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Lois Adams-Rodgers Deputy Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Keynote Address: Charles Kolb President, Committee for Economic Development

• Shuhan Wang Deputy Director, National Foreign Language Center University of Maryland, College Park
• Nancy Rhodes Director, Foreign Language Education, Center for Applied Linguistics

Group 1: How do states or districts decide which languages to offer? What are some of the challenges in requiring the study of world languages? How do we remove barriers?

• Lois Adams-Rodgers Deputy Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Linda Wallinger Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Virginia Department of Education Discussion

Group 2: What types of world language programs are there in your locality? How can we establish programs of less commonly taught languages? What are some of the issues?

• Gregg Roberts World Language Specialist, Utah State Office of Education
• Robert Crawford Coordinator, World Languages, West Virginia Department of Education Discussion

Group 3: What challenges are there for early language or immersion/dual language programs? What kind of effective teachers do we need for these programs?

• Helena Curtain Associate Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• Christine Brown Assistant Superintendent, Glastonbury (CT) Public Schools Discussion

• Vivien Stewart Vice President for Education, Asia Society
• Emily Feistritzer President and CEO, National Center for Alternative Certification President and Founder, National Center for Education Information
• Vance Rugaard Executive Director, Office of Teacher Licensing, Tennessee Department of Education President, National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification

Group 1: What guest teachers are there for different languages? How does our state/district/ school find an effective guest teacher? How do we select and support a guest teacher?

• Jacqueline Van Houten World Language and International Education Consultant, Kentucky Department of Education
• Carol Tao Lin Associate Director, Chinese Language and Culture Initiatives, The College Board
• Catherine Pétillon Attaché for Educational Affairs, Embassy of France in the United States
• Pedro P. Rey Rodil Education Office, Embassy of Spain
• You Shaozhong Minister Counsellor for Education Affairs, Education Office of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America

Group 2: What are the profiles and needs of homegrown teachers who happen to be native or heritage language speakers? Where can we find them if we want to offer a less commonly taught language in our schools?

• Catherine Ingold Director, National Foreign Language Center
• Elizabeth Chung Commissioner, Maryland Governor’s Commission on Asian Pacific Affairs Discussion

Group 3: What kind of teacher candidates are there in a typical alternative route to teacher certification program? How do these alternative programs prepare prospective teachers? What advice can we give to a prospective teacher?

• Emily Feistritzer President and CEO of the National Center for Alternative Certification and the National Center for Education Information

• Martha (Marty) Abbott Director of Education, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Janet Glass 2008 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
• Toni Theisen 2009 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year Thompson R2J School District, Loveland, CO

• Kathleen Paliokas Director, Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Marty Abbott Director of Education, American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
• Thomas Keith Cothrun Associate Director of World Languages and Cultures, The College Board

Group 1: A conversation about tests for measuring teacher credentials such as the PRAXIS II and the ACTFL OPI
Moderator : Thomas Keith Cothrun Associate Director of World Languages and Cultures, The College Board

Panelists:

• Helen Hamlyn Vice President of Test Administration, Language Testing International
• Florence Cucchi Director of Client Relations, Educational Testing Service

Group 2: What are characteristics of innovative teacher education programs? What are essential considerations for input and output?

• Michael Everson Associate Professor, of Foreign Language Education, The University of Iowa
• Rita Oleksak Director of Foreign Languages/ELL, Glastonbury (CT) Public Schools and President, National Association of District Supervisors of Foreign Languages Discussion

Group 3: What do successful STARTALK teacher programs look like? What are the lessons learned?

• Milena Savova Director, Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting Programs, New York University
• Dany Doueiri Assistant Professor of Arabic and Arabic Language Program Coordinator, California State University, San Bernardino
• Iran Arbabi Amin Foreign Language Instructional Specialist, Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools

Group 1: What can states and districts do to effect changes?

• Duarte Silva Executive Director, California Foreign Language Project, Stanford University
• James Lanham Director for Teacher Certification and Licensure, Virginia Department of Education

Group 2: What recommendations can we make for the improvement of world language teacher education and preparation?

• Vivien Stewart Vice President for Education, Asia Society John Webb Director, Program in Teacher Preparation, Princeton University

Group 3: What can institutions of higher education do to improve teacher education and preparation?

• Carine Feyten Dean, School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University
• Christopher Campisano Coordinator of Higher Education Programs, New Jersey State Department of Education
• Johanna Watzinger-Tharp Associate Dean, International and Interdisciplinary Programs, University of Utah

• Phyllis Jacobson Administrator, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
• Rebecca Garland Chief Academic Officer, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Group 1: What are innovative and best practices from states?

• Gregory Fulkerson Education Associate for World Languages and International Education, Delaware Department of Education
• Janice Kittok World Language Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Education
• Michele Anciaux Aoki World Languages Program Supervisor, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Group 2: How can guest teachers, immersion/ dual language teachers, and/or online instructors be certified? How do we ensure effectiveness?

• Helga Fasciano Section Chief, K–12 Program Areas, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
• Kin T. Chee Associate for Foreign Language Studies, Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies, New York State Education Department

Group 3: What are some effective alternative certification models that are available to world language teachers? What considerations are non-negotiable for a world language teacher alternative certification program?

• Emily Feistritzer President and CEO of the National Center for Alternative Certification and the National Center for Education Information
• John Webb Director, Program in Teacher Preparation, Princeton University

Group 1: How do we develop and implement portable certification requirements across state lines?

• Vance Rugaard Executive Director, Office of Teacher Licensing, Tennessee Department of Education President, National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification
• Phyllis Jacobson Administrator, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Group 2: What would it take to develop a plan for articulated, start-earlystay- long world language programs in the United States?

• Christine Brown Assistant Superintendent, Glastonbury (CT) Public Schools
• Michael Hydak Director, Languages Other Than English, Texas Education Agency Discussion

Group 3: How do we race to the top for world languages?

• Vivien Stewart Vice President for Education, Asia Society
• Dave Edwards Executive Director, Joint National Committee on Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies Discussion

Group 1: States develop state specific action plans. State teams’ meeting

Group 2: Develop recommendations on the national level

• Catherine Ingold Director, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland, College Park
• Duarte Silva Executive Director, California Foreign Language Project, Stanford University

Group 3: Institutions of teacher education develop a set of recommendations for teacher education programs

• Carine Feyten Dean, School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University
• Betsy Devlin-Foltz Executive Director, Longview Foundation

• Catherine Ingold Director, National Foreign Language Center University of Maryland, College Park
• Lois Adams-Rodgers Deputy Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
• Andre Winston Lewis Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education, US Department of Education Reporting back from participants