Instructors & Technical Support Staff
Instructors
Magara Maeda
Japanese Instructor
Natalia Roberts
Russian Instructor
Hala Ghoneim
Arabic Instructor
Kaishan Kong
Chinese Instructor
Remya Sarma-Traynor
Chinese Instructor
Hala Ghoneim, UW-Whitewater
Arabic Instructor
CLP enhanced my team-work and organizational skills. It gave “building communities” a whole new meaning, and it showed me how technology can play an essential and meaningful role in language learning.
“Students interact with more native speakers of the language they are learning and learn firsthand about the diversity of their cultures. CLP makes learning a host of foreign languages accessible to students whose campuses would not have the resources to offer.”
Kaishan Kong, UW-Eau Claire
Chinese Instructor
The CLP format pushes me to be thoughtful on how to revise my pedagogy in order to provide good teaching to the students on the other campus.
“[Teaching distance classes] requires a lot of thoughts, planning and coordination. It provides learning opportunities for students to continue learning a language.”
Magara Maeda, UW-River Falls
Japanese Instructor
CLP changed my attitude and perspectives on FL classroom instruction. I no longer take things for granted, and started thinking constraints and limitations as an advantage. As a result, CLP drives me to be more flexible, creative, innovative, and collaborate with others. It also pushed me to flip my classroom to maximize the classroom interaction time.
“CLP classroom offers more authentic and meaningful communication beyond time and space of a traditional classroom. Being at physically different location brings more dynamic classroom interaction between the sending and receiving site.”
Natalia Roberts, UW-La Crosse
Russian Instructor
CLP provides an opportunity to learn Less Commonly Taught Languages from experienced and dedicated instructors who constantly work on improving their teaching by incorporating both culture and latest methodology.
“Students benefit from working not just with one native speaker on their campus but also with additional native speakers from other campuses. They get exposure to different regional nuances of spoken language as well as to diverse cultural traditions and generational differences.”
Remya Sarma-Traynor, UW-Stevens Point
Chinese Instructor
CLP is awesome. It is fun to find new technologies and to use them for teaching and assessments. I feel that I am connecting with more people, not only at our home campus, but at other campuses, too.
“CLP provides students with the opportunity to share their work with classmates at multiple locations. It builds up their confidence to speak in the target language as they do not only get to know their classmates from their home school but also classmates from other campuses.”
Technical Support
Scott Berg
UW-Green Bay
CLP has impacted cross-campus collaborations through building “closer working relationships with the technical staff at other campuses. Those working relationships are a resource UWGB can draw on for videoconferencing knowledge.”
“The tech is stable and will continue to become more accessible.”
Terry Wirkus
UW La Crosse
Because of the CLP I have daily interactions with contemporaries across the state. This has brought me additional trusted colleagues that share their experiences and their approaches to problems. This cross-campus collaboration has been of great benefit to me in my daily work.
“We need to increase the cross-campus collaboration and the sharing of finite resources to continue to provide a high quality educational product to our students state-wide. No matter what UW System school you attend the CLP helps to bring the access to exotic languages to everyone. CLP is a perfect example of supporting the Wisconsin Idea.”