MISHA’S ADVISING
Fall 2014
GETTING STARTED
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Who am I?
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Who are you?
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Expectations from the program of study
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Expectations from your advisor
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How to have positive year(s) with us in TWLE/LLED/COE/UGA [and what do all those
acronyms mean?]
YOUR ADVISOR
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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
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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:
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LLED 7710 Writing Cultures: A Poetry Workshop for Creative Educators [F14]
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LLED 8045 Advanced Poetry for Creative Educators [Summer]
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LLED 6631 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education [SPR14]
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LLED 8650 Translingual Memoir
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LLED 8590 Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities [SPR14]
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LLED 7504 Theatre for Reflective Practice in the Language, Literacy, and TESOL
Classroom
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LLED 7504E Reflective Practice
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LLED 7506 Teaching Literature in Spanish for the K-12 Foreign Language Classroom
[F2014]
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**Interested in a course taught and guided in Summer in Oaxaca, Mexico? Let me know!
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Workshops: Spanish for Non-Spanish Speakers: What Every Educator Should Know
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**Courses are more fully described at my website
http://teachersactup.com/about/courses-i-teach/
CHOOSING COURSES
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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
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Cahnmann-Taylor & Tolosa-Casadont (instructors)
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International students required to attend in their first fall semester
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Academic writing and Academic culture presented
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Additional advisement
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TIME AT UGA
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Research Assistance
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LLED Teaching Assistance
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Work Experience
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Pre-K – 12 Teaching Experience
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Volunteer Work
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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)
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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
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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
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Liz Phillips liz11@uga.edu 2014-Present graduate student administrator
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Viktoria Hasko vhasko@uga.edu 2012-Present, graduate coordinator
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Ruth Harman rharman@uga.edu 2013-Present TWLE Program Chair
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Bob Fecho bfecho@uga.edu 2013-Present, Department Head
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Marianne Roberts marianne@uga.edu Office Manager
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Karen Braxley Kbraxley@uga.edu Coordinator for Writing Tutoring
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LLEGO listserv
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UGAforsale listserve
SEEKING HELP AT UGA
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Division of Academic Enhancement http://tutor.uga.edu/division-information/faculty-staff/
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Counseling https://www.uhs.uga.edu/caps/
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International student life at UGA http://isl.uga.edu/
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The Graduate School http://www.grad.uga.edu/
PLANNING SHEETS, ADVISEMENT, & COURSE OF
STUDY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Required courses
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TWLE faculty & instructor courses
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Elective courses
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POD courses
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“E” courses
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Requesting syllabi
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Purchasing books
GETTING SOCIAL
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August 22, Friday social at Lake Herrick –LLEGO & LLED Faculty Potluck
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Sharing and attending as many extra-curricular events as possible
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Red & Black
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Flagpole
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Websites
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UGA Museum of Art
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State Botanical Gardens
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Community Classes
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Bike Athens
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Celebrating your own and others’ diversities!