Sarah Springer - Team Member
Sarah started working with me as a graduate research
assistant at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Since that time we have worked on many projects
together – most recently an international online survey of
over 1,000 teachers’ attitudes about and practice of
reflective teaching. Sarah designed and helps maintain
this web site, and has been working with me on my
computer skills. Outside of language teaching, she
plays fiddle, piano and stand-up bass in a local dance
band. It’s great fun to work with her.
assistant at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Since that time we have worked on many projects
together – most recently an international online survey of
over 1,000 teachers’ attitudes about and practice of
reflective teaching. Sarah designed and helps maintain
this web site, and has been working with me on my
computer skills. Outside of language teaching, she
plays fiddle, piano and stand-up bass in a local dance
band. It’s great fun to work with her.
Bio
Sarah Springer has been coaching teachers, colleagues and friends in the use
of technology since 1983, when she first began writing simple programs for her
Apple IIE computer. She began sending and receiving student writing
assignments electronically in 1992, and by 1996 was regularly using
supplemental e-materials with her EFL students in Europe.
More recently she has been honing her skills in digital audio, video and photo
editing, and in web design. She is experimenting with the uses of blogs,
podcasts, Moodles and other online resources, as well as the creation of
interactive multimedia projects using Flash. She has made presentations on
technology, action research, and faculty development at conferences such as
TESOL, CATESOL, ACTFL, NCOLCTL, and the bi-annual CARLA conference
on language teacher education.
Sarah enjoys the challenges of both qualitative and quantitative data analysis,
and has worked on curriculum development projects for adult school and
community college ESL students, as well as foreign language curricula for
learners of Persian Farsi and Pashto.
She received an M.A. in TESOL and a certificate in Computer-Assisted
Language Learning (CALL) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
and has lived and taught in the U.S., Brazil, Switzerland, and Cambridge,
England.
Sarah currently works with faculty at Monterey's Defense Language Institute,
with an emphasis on faculty development and the integration of technology into
language teaching and learning. Prior to this Sarah was project manager for a
federally-funded grant project at the Monterey Institute on content-based
language instruction.
From 2003 to 2005 she organized two conferences for university foreign
language faculty, co-edited a volume on "Content, Tasks and Projects in the
Language Classroom" (with Dr. Renee Jourdenais), and contributed a chapter
of her own.
From 2004 to 2006 Sarah developed a series of professional development
resources that included a DVD of footage on content-based instruction, online
and print versions of sample CBI curricula and course materials (in Chinese
and Japanese, with English annotations), and developed and maintained the
project web site (http://ciin.miis.edu).
Recent projects have included:
- the inclusion of authentic video clips from university lectures in a
supplemental college study skills curriculum,
- the use of audio and video clips as prompt material in a variety of online
language assessments, and
- the use of community-based research and multimedia projects for
students in intensive ESL and foreign language courses.
Sarah Springer has been coaching teachers, colleagues and friends in the use
of technology since 1983, when she first began writing simple programs for her
Apple IIE computer. She began sending and receiving student writing
assignments electronically in 1992, and by 1996 was regularly using
supplemental e-materials with her EFL students in Europe.
More recently she has been honing her skills in digital audio, video and photo
editing, and in web design. She is experimenting with the uses of blogs,
podcasts, Moodles and other online resources, as well as the creation of
interactive multimedia projects using Flash. She has made presentations on
technology, action research, and faculty development at conferences such as
TESOL, CATESOL, ACTFL, NCOLCTL, and the bi-annual CARLA conference
on language teacher education.
Sarah enjoys the challenges of both qualitative and quantitative data analysis,
and has worked on curriculum development projects for adult school and
community college ESL students, as well as foreign language curricula for
learners of Persian Farsi and Pashto.
She received an M.A. in TESOL and a certificate in Computer-Assisted
Language Learning (CALL) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
and has lived and taught in the U.S., Brazil, Switzerland, and Cambridge,
England.
Sarah currently works with faculty at Monterey's Defense Language Institute,
with an emphasis on faculty development and the integration of technology into
language teaching and learning. Prior to this Sarah was project manager for a
federally-funded grant project at the Monterey Institute on content-based
language instruction.
From 2003 to 2005 she organized two conferences for university foreign
language faculty, co-edited a volume on "Content, Tasks and Projects in the
Language Classroom" (with Dr. Renee Jourdenais), and contributed a chapter
of her own.
From 2004 to 2006 Sarah developed a series of professional development
resources that included a DVD of footage on content-based instruction, online
and print versions of sample CBI curricula and course materials (in Chinese
and Japanese, with English annotations), and developed and maintained the
project web site (http://ciin.miis.edu).
Recent projects have included:
- the inclusion of authentic video clips from university lectures in a
supplemental college study skills curriculum,
- the use of audio and video clips as prompt material in a variety of online
language assessments, and
- the use of community-based research and multimedia projects for
students in intensive ESL and foreign language courses.
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