Week of January 10, 2021 in UCIS

Wednesday, January 13

12:00 pm Information Session
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Hub
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The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship.

Attend this info session with representatives from the European Studies Center, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Asian Studies Center to learn more about the requirements and how to submit a strong application.

Register here: https://bit.ly/FLAS-info-session-2021

4:00 pm Lecture
Authentic Texts in a Russian Language Classroom: Using Proficiency-Based Approach for Selecting, Scaffolding, and Learning Activities
Location:
ACTR
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (Indiana University), Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (Duke University) and American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
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A webinar with Evgeny Dengub (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Irina Dubinina (Brandeis University)

This series of the workshops targets Russian language teachers and instructors at the secondary and post-secondary levels and is designed to review language resources and to introduce the pedagogical strategies for the use of authentic materials in a Russian language classroom.

REGISTER HERE: https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-4113892/Registration

The webinars are free and open to anyone with the generous support of the co-sponsors:
Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (Indiana University),
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (University of Pittsburgh)​, and Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (Duke University)

Join us for the other webinar in the series:
Using Authentic Materials to Introduce the Topics on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Russian Language Curriculum
Friday, January 15th, 4-5:30pm EST
Webinar presenters:
Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh) and Izolda Savenkova (Dickinson College)
Registration link: https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-4114899

Thursday, January 14

6:00 pm Teacher Training--Area Studies
From Our Classroom To Yours: The Joys of Tangrams
Sponsored by:
National Consortium on Teaching About Asia
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A series of NCTA Master Teacher workshops on integrating East Asia into your classroom.
Join us for a teacher to teacher presentations that will cover content, strategies, implementation, and resources for bringing East Asia into your classroom this year.

This presentation shows how tangrams are much more than a simple Chinese puzzle. Participants will learn about the colorful history of tangrams including origin
legends, their somewhat mysterious inception, and use of the puzzle by famous enthusiasts, all while deepening their understanding of Chinese history. Opportunities for hands-on exploration of puzzles from basic forms through seemingly unsolvable paradoxes promise to be both fun and challenging to participants. While the math classroom might be the obvious place for tangrams in school, we will also explore creative applications across the K-12 curriculum. Information on resources applicable to all grade levels will be shared.

Friday, January 15

4:00 pm Lecture
Using Authentic Materials to Introduce the Topics on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Russian Language Curriculum
Location:
ACTR
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (Indiana University), Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (Duke University) and American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR)
See Details

Webinar with Olga Klimova (University of Pittsburgh) and Izolda Savenkova (Dickinson College)

This series of the workshops targets Russian language teachers and instructors at the secondary and post-secondary levels and is designed to review language resources and to introduce the pedagogical strategies for the use of authentic materials in a Russian language classroom.

REGISTER HERE: https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-4114899/Registration

The webinars are free and open to anyone with the generous support of the co-sponsors:
Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute (Indiana University),
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (University of Pittsburgh)​, and Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (Duke University)

Join us for the other webinar in the series:
Authentic Texts in a Russian Language Classroom: Using Proficiency-based Approach for Selecting, Scaffolding, and Learning Activities
Wednesday, January 13th, 4-5:30pm EST
Presenters: Evgeny Dengub (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Irina Dubinina (Brandeis University)
Registration Link: https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-4113892