Curriculum and Instruction, Foreign Language 264c

Margaret Azevedo, Instructor

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

MULTI-MEDIA CENTER PROPOSAL

Written and Oral Assignment

Description of the Assignment

You and your foreign language department want to develop a foreign language multi-media center. You must make a presentation to the school administration to gain approval. Develop a detailed proposal to convince the administration that such a center is important for instruction and is economically feasible.

Checklist for what to include in your plan

Keep in mind that your school has just published a mission statement emphasizing the importance of a curriculum and those instructional strategies that address the needs of the diverse student population in your district. Therefore, your proposal must convince the administration that your multi-media center will address your school's mission statement with respect to the needs of the second language learners in your school. Your written proposal should include the following information:

1. Rationale for establishing such a media center and how it will benefit second language
instruction in your school and school district.

• Include a proposed budget plan.
  
• State how you intend to meet the needs of the second language learners who make up the diverse population of your particular school.
  

2. Detailed plans of the physical layout of the room including a description and number of
specific equipment needed:

• Existing rooms which could be used as is or with modification
  
• Configuration of the center and how it can accommodate more than one
  language at a time as well as different modes of instruction
  
• Audio and video equipment
  
• Maintenance of equipment
  
• Furniture
  
• Power requirements
  
• Storage requirements
  

3. Responsibilities of personnel other than teachers

4. Supervision of the center while teachers are in class

5. Media material

• Sources for purchasing media materials including computer software,videos, and laser discs materials
  
• Plan for organizing and cataloguing all materials

6. Ethical issues which include:

• Code of ethics related to copyright laws
  
• Equitable accommodations for all students (Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973)

7. Funding: grants or other sources

• Attach a list of sources for technology grants currently available

8. Presentation
Your presentation in March should include a:

• Fifteen-minute demonstration of the multi-media authoring program you developed as a sample of what students could produce if they had access to a Multi-Media Center, and a
  
• Ten-minute description of your Multi-Media Center plan. Describe what software and hardware you would use. Keep in mind that you want to prove to the administration that a foreign language media center equipped with the latest technology would be the most efficient way of providing communication-based instruction.

Design the multi-media center with a specific school in mind. Most schools do not have the extra space to accommodate such a center nor the finances to fund such a proposal. However, there are many Federal and State grants currently available to educators. Furthermore, there are organizations within the school community or educational institutions that offer grants and this is a possible consideration as you think about funds for the media center. Your proposal should be realistic and one you could present to your own school or any other typical school with limited funds.

You may develop your proposal alone, or with one or two other STEP teachers in the Curriculum and Instruction Course Foreign Language.

Grading of the written proposal will be based on how well you have covered items one through eight listed above.

CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ED 264c

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