AP* JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE
Sandra Garcia
history
Sandy was born, raised and currently lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.
She started teaching Spanish in 1982 while living in Japan and Japanese in 1987 at Pacific University. She is currently employed by the Forest Grove School district and Pacific University. Besides teaching Japanese, she is involved with the Sister City association (Nyuzen, Toyama is Forest Grove's sister city), she leads student groups to Japan every other year, she is past-president of the Japanese Teacher's Association in Oregon, past-president of COFLT (Oregon's association for language teaching) and past-treasurer of NCJLT. Currently she is a consultant with the College Board on the AP* Japanese exam.
contact
You can e-mail Sandy at graysp@pacificu.edu.
session outline
Tentative Schedule
Introductions
Goals of the workshop
Overview of the Advanced Placement Program* and College Board Mission
Resource Discussion
The AP* Exam
The Exam and sample test questions from the May Test (if available)
Review of test and scoring
Topic/Functions
Chinese Characters
Vocabulary building
Reading Strategies
Textbook analysis
Writing: Presentational and Interpersonal Modes
Speaking: Interpersonal, Presentational Modes
TPRS model
Computer/Internet Use
And challenges
Assessment types and usage
Issues to discuss:
Combined-level groups
Promoting rigor
Finding resources
The first day there will be an assignment and the last day will be sharing of that work.
