Application Form for Teaching Assistantship in Spanish

Application Form for Teaching Assistantship in Spanish

The deadline for the first round of consideration for a teaching assistantship in Spanish is February 1. Applications will be accepted after that date, on a rolling basis, until positions have been assigned.

Submit this application form along with your CV to: Professor Kathleen Wheatley, Chair of Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee by e-mail () or mail: P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201.

I.ACADEMIC YEAR FOR WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING:

II. CONTACT INFORMATION

Name:

E-mail:

Address:

Phone:
(where you can be reached during any winter/summer break)

III.EDUCATION

Please describe your undergraduate and graduate education, including institution, degrees completed or in progress and the year, and major/minor.

Undergraduate:

Graduate:

IV.LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE

Please answer all questions in Spanish.

If you are a native speaker, what is your nationality and where were you raised?

If you are a native speaker, skip the next two questions and continue with Section V.

When did you first begin learning Spanish and/or Portuguese and for how long have you been studying the language?

Please describe any study abroad or time spent abroad, including work experience.

V.LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

How would you self-evaluate your abilities in each of these skills?

Speaking:[ ] superior[ ] advanced[ ] intermediate[ ] novice

Listening:[ ] superior[ ] advanced[ ] intermediate[ ] novice

Reading:[ ] superior[ ] advanced[ ] intermediate[ ] novice

Writing:[ ] superior[ ] advanced[ ] intermediate[ ] novice

On what do you base each of these evaluations?

Speaking:

Listening:

Reading:

Writing:

Have you had an official OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview)? [ ] Yes[ ] No

If you answered Yes above, at what level on the ACTFL were you rated?

Writing Proficiency

Please submit a writing sample (topic open; two-page minimum) that you have written recently—or purposely for this application—that has not been reviewed or edited by another person (please type!) and that demonstrates your writing skills.

Speaking Proficiency

In order to determine your speaking proficiency, we may call you for a phone interview. Are you generally available at the number you listed above?

VI.TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Please answer all questions in Spanish.

List the courses you have taught or are teaching.

Describe your favorite language teacher (as a student). What kind of teacher was he/she?

What aspects of his/her teaching would you try to incorporate into your own teaching?

Describe teacher qualities that you do not find appealing (as a student or a teacher) and explain why not.

Have you taken a foreign language pedagogy or methods class? If yes, describe briefly.

Please describe your teaching philosophy (or how you might envision it, if you have not taught before).