 | SRAS for Educators
About: The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) is an organization dedicated to encouraging education in and about the countries of the former Soviet Union. As part of this effort, these pages are intended to help professors "market" their programs at home and increase program practicality by leading group travel in the FSU. | | Classroom Materials
and Advocacy Advocate your program with statistics and resources that argue why Russia-related courses are important to today's students. Online Program Materials can make your courses more interactive! Increasing Program Practicality is very important in growing a program and justifying its existence to administrators. Expand Your Student Base by increasing cultural awareness in your community and by showing that Russian can be invaluable to students in other fields such as politics and business. Grants and Resources are available to fund and maintain your program. SRAS Resources lists lots more services for professors and students. |
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Networking Resources - The Key to Improvement! SEELANGS *Recommended!* SEELANGS is a service which links hundreds of Slavic scholars across the globe into one community. Questions about research topics, class materials, and study abroad opportunities often receive educated answers within a day. The Committee on College and Pre-College Russian (CCPCR) provides an incredible amount of useful information including statistics on college enrolment, resources for teachers, mailing lists for teachers, and even a census of language graduates and their current professions. Highly Recommended! The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) was founded in 1967 to strengthen and improve the teaching of foreign languages at all educational levels. Its activities and publications focus on pedagogy, research, teacher education, the development of appropriate guidelines for foreign language skills, educational technologies, and how they relate to foreign language teaching, learning, legislation and promotion, and other issues of national concern in foreign language education. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) exists to advance the study and promote the teaching of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, and cultures on all educational levels, elementary through graduate school. The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) represents American scholarship in the field of Russia, Central Eurasian, Central and East European studies. Representatives of the AAASS sit on such bodies as the US State Department's Advisory Committee on the Soviet/East European Research and Training Act (1983), and the International Congress for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES). It is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies. International Association of Teachers of the Russian Language and Literature publishes journals, sponsors competitions and events, and supports research and teaching. Most of the site is only available in Russian. The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) is a private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies. American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) seeks to promote, improve, and strengthen foreign language and second language instruction in the US. The Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS), founded in 1954 at the University of Manitoba, is an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and professionals whose interests focus on the social, economic and political life of the Slavic peoples, as well as their languages, diverse cultures and histories. The Association of Departments of Foreign Language (ADFL) puts department chairs in touch with experienced peers and provides professional development to help departmental leaders work more effectively. It provides a forum for collegial exchange about important issues through its summer seminars, journal, and Web site. Members are kept informed about legislation that affects the field. The National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages seeks to encourage communication between teachers of LCTLs (including Russian) and to increase America's capacity for teaching and learning them. The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association seeks to promote Cognitive Linguistics, and particularly to encourage graduate students and junior faculty to pursue research on the Slavic languages in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics and to encourage interdisciplinary applications of Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in the area of literary analysis. American Translators Association is an organization advancing the professions of translation and interpreting. They provide lots of material and resources for advocating languages as professions. Their Slavic Language Division also runs a regular newsletter called SlavFile. InterCom is a free weekly e-mail digest for language teachers that you customize so that you receive only the content that you are interested in. Russian teachers should select "Other European" when selecting their language preferences to receive Russian-specific articles. The Center for Applied Linguistics uses the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems and caries out teacher education, design and development of instructional materials among other things. The site is not the easiest to navigate - perhaps the most useful section are their articles. The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) is a professional organization that serves a membership involved in both education and technology. CALICO has an emphasis on modern language teaching and learning, but reaches out to all areas that employ the languages of the world to instruct and to learn. The Central Association of Russian Teachers of America (CARTA) officially includes the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, but it is open for professionals at all levels of public, private, secondary, and higher educational institutions from other states as well. Association for Women in Slavic Studies is a networking resource for people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women's studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The National Heritage Language Resource Center's mission is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design, materials development, and teacher education. American Friends of Russian Folklore mission is to support and promote American understanding of Russian traditional life and culture. To this end, AFRF supports a wide range of projects: field research, recordings, filmmaking, archiving, and analysis of Russian folklore and oral histories. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. StreamingCulture.org can help build up your organization's website with multimedia. The North American Association for Belarusian Studies (NAABS) is a non-profit scholarly organization which seeks to promote research, study, and teaching in all aspects of Belarusian studies. Note: Below is a list of those pages directly associated with this page. The date indicates the last time that page was updated.
27.02.2010 - "Sound Bites" - Advocacy for Russian Programs
02.02.2010 - Russian Mini Lessons
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