Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching
Professional Development Certificate
This certificate provides an exciting opportunity for teachers of foreign languages and English as a second/foreign language to showcase their professional development work through the CARLA summer institute program. The certificate is offered through the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development in partnership with CARLA.
The Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Certificate provides teachers with tangible recognition of their successful completion of CARLA’s coordinated set of internationally recognized, graduate-level summer institutes focused on cutting-edge language teaching practices and methodologies. The institutes may be taken in any sequence, and institutes taken for credit previously can be applied to the certificate. At least 12 credits of the following coursework must be completed for the certificate:
Required courses (6 credits):
- Culture as Core in the Second Language Classroom (2 cr.)
- Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers (2 cr.)
- Using Technology in Second Language Teaching (2 cr.)
Three elective courses chosen from the following options (6 credits):
- Improving Language Learning: Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction (2 cr.)
- Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development (2 cr.)
- Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom (2 cr.)
- Developing Learners’ Sociocultural Competence (2 cr.) (Sorry, not offered in 2012)
PLEASE NOTE: Applying to the certificate program is free! Teachers who wish to take the CARLA institutes for graduate-level credit and are accepted to the certificate program can make an initial payment to CARLA at the lower University of Minnesota student rate, after which they must register for credit and pay University tuition and fees.