Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 1 Third Annual Redesign Alliance Conference March 28-30, 2010 Disciplinary Roundtable: Humanities and Writing Intensive Elementary Spanish Redesign Concepción Godev [on behalf of the UNCC Elementary Spanish Redesign Committee: Jasoon An, Concepción Godev (chair), Ann Gonzalez, Heather McCullough, Ton Pujol, Garvey Pyke, Adriana Vega-Hidalgo, and Sandra Watts] University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 2 general information ● University of North Carolina at Charlotte ● Elementary Spanish (first semester and second) 60 sections per semester 30 students per section 3000 students per year (including summer) 3 contact hours in two days ● Redesign goals: lowering cost and improving academic instruction and performance. ● Project status: completed the first semester pilot study and the second semester pilot study is underway.

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 3 initial planning ● Review of and consultation with existing redesigned programs (Spring 2008) ● Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) informs languages department about NCAT’s program “Colleagues Committed to Redesign Projects (Spring 2009) ● CTL, in consultation with languages department committee, drafts course redesign NCAT proposal (Spring-Summer 2009) ● Lesson plans, online activities selection and pre-pilot hybrid first-semester course (Spring-Summer 2009)

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 4 initial planning ● Administrative support (5 colleagues): department chair, associate chair, Language Resource Center director, two colleagues from Center for Teaching and Learning. ● Faculty support (4 colleagues): elementary Spanish coordinator, specialist in second language acquisition (associate professor), two lecturers. ● Grant support ($18,190): Office of Distance Education-$3,000 (Spring 2008); Academic Program Improvement-$4,500 (Fall 2008); Scholarship of Teaching and Learning-$10,690 (Spring-Summer 2010). ● Research support (statistical analysis) (1 colleague): psychology professor.

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 5 student reactions ● challenge: 59% of the redesigned course students wanted to take a redesigned second- semester Spanish. ● solution: changing expectations by changing study habits. ● challenge: 13% withdrawals ● solution: better training on making the most of the academic support services available.

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 6 student reactions ● challenge: students need to make a more efficient use of the academic support available. ● solution: strategic scheduling of tutoring services. ● challenge: students need to improve the pace of their online work. ● solution: more individualized learning support from instructors and tutors.

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 7 alternate staffing ● 16 hours of tutoring per week (online and face to face). ● 11 graduate tutors. ● 2 undergraduate tutors. ● graduate students are trained and supervised by elementary Spanish coordinator

Elementary Spanish Redesign *Godev 8 contact information and discussion Concepción Godev University of North Carolina at Charlotte