Language Success Stories
Share your successes from the new world of remote language teaching and learning!
The Language Center would like to hear your stories of successful instructional activities, connections with students, teaching experiences, encounters with technology, and the like to share with our community. No success story is too small to share! We’ll feature one story per week in ElsieTalk, and below we provide an example from the LC’s own Carter Griffith to give you inspiration. Please send your success stories and any questions to Kate Paesani at kpaesani@umn.edu.
I teach an elective ESL course on academic speaking. The transition to remote meetings has gone better than I could’ve hoped. I have been impressed by how the students have adjusted to their new circumstances, all while being away from or traveling home. Two of the eight students have returned home, one to Colombia and one to Oman. They have both continued to attend class while they are under quarantine. The other six students are attending remotely from their dorms/apartments in Minneapolis. Despite all of the stressors and challenges they face, the group has hardly missed a beat. It has been both humbling and inspiring to see the empathy and curiosity they share for one another. Their community, in which I’m honored to play a role, has adapted and has remained intact.
Carter Griffith, MELP
