Spanish for Leadership

Mary Risner
Mary RisnerMary Risner
Spanish for Leadership
&Business
CristinBleess, Castle View High School, CO
Danika Cornelius, Seacrest Day School, FL
Mary Risner, University of Florida
FFLA 2012
St. Augustine, FL
Are We Prepared for Jobs of the Future???
http://youtu.be/IwCEkleilNQ
Session Overview
• What is “Business Language”?
• Resources/PLN
• Business Language Model 1- Private School
• Business Language Model 2- Public School
(via virtual guest)
• Q & A
What is Business Language???
…[language] used to conduct business in
various communicative situations and
cultural contexts.
DOYLE, M. (2012), Business Language Studies in the United States: On Nomenclature, Context, Theory, and Method. The Modern
Language Journal, 96: 105–121
How important is knowing a second
language
when conducting business or for different
jobs?
Language, Business and the “Halo Effect”
http://youtu.be/y2uQYH8tqcM
Languages & Careers
Resources on NOBLE
Personal Learning Network: How to
Connect…
NOBLE Facebook
Noble Ning
LinkedIn – Language Learning for
Business and the Professions
Twitter
@langforcareers
Spanish for Leadership
(model can be used for any language)
Model 1-Public School
Preparing Global Leaders Through
the Spanish Classroom
CristinBleess
cristin.bleess@dcsdk12.org
How to set-up a Spanish for Leadership
program at your public school
Castle View High School, Castle Rock, Colorado
Suburban high school, population 1750
4x4 block schedule, Academy model
Spanish for Leadership class meets many needs…
• Advanced, non-AP class Spanish class
• 21st century learning opportunity
• Real-world application
To-do list to get the class started
• Talk with principal
• Write class proposal
• Brainstorm with other teachers
• Attend conferences
• FIU K-12 Language for Business
Conference (Jan. 19, 2013, Miami)
• CIBER Business Language
Conference (April 4-6, 2013, IU –
Bloomington)
• Create curriculum
• Generate student interest
Spanish for Leadership Curriculum
• Typical day
• Related vocabulary
Independent Career Studies
• Preparation
• Possible companies
Basic Business Skills
Cultural and Etiquette Studies
Cross-Cultural Communication
21st Century Skills Projects
Community Involvement
End-Of-Class Trip
Spanish for Leadership
Model 2-Private School
(model can be used for any language)
Seacrest Country Day School
Naples, FL
Communication and support from Mary and Cristin
NOBLE resources
Survey my students
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0305/leadership.shtml
Spanish for Leadership
Other lessons accomplished so far this school year:
-Reading news articles
-Keeping an online journal with weebly.com
-Creating resumes
-Learning basic phone skills such as greetings, making appointments,
and leaving messages
-Learning more complex numbers such as decimals and fractions
-Acquiring business etiquette knowledge through readings,
discussions, and role play activities…
Current plans in progress:
-Invite guest speakers to the class
-Through the efforts of Dr. Risner and NOBLE:
Set up connection with Brazilian class learning Spanish
-Establish service learning component as part of the curriculum
Locally Internationally
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Contact Information
dcornelius@seacrest.org
cristin.bleess@dcsdk12.org
mrisner@latam.ufl.edu
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Spanish for Leadership

Editor's Notes

  1. defined as a major empirical sub-discipline of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) whose objective is to examine and predict how languages are, may, or should be