Meet Cathleen Skinner, Director of World Languages Other Than English at the Oklahoma State Department of Education

What’s your first and last name?

  • Cathleen Skinner

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

  • Director of World Languages Other Than English at the Oklahoma State Department of Education

How are you involved in education?

  • A former classroom K-12 world language teacher in urban, rural and suburban districts in Oklahoma.
  • Former Foreign Language Education Director for the College of Education at Oklahoma State University.
  • Currently Director of World Languages Other Then English for the State.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • Lots of communication in the target language by students guided by their teacher to collaborate on projects and tasks using real target language to accomplish a goal. These collaborations may include virtual exchanges with classes outside the U.S. focusing on cross-curricular projects.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

  • Why every child should be learning a world language, and why we should be supporting world language instruction for our students.
  • The Goal Is Proficiency: Using comprehensible input instructional methods
  • Bringing an Effective World Language Program to Your School
  • How to Assess Language Proficiency
  • The Seal of Biliteracy

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