Spanish-American Institute

Preliminary Responses to Self-Study Guiding Questions or Prompts

Faculty SSSC

August 29, 2011

Please submit the Committee’s Preliminary Responses to the following questions to Dr. Prager no later than the end of September. Use as much space as needed.

Please keep in mind that the Institute seeks CEA accreditation for its English-Plus Course of Study only. The Committee should feel free to add other preliminary responses to any Standard.

Question(s) 1: Faculty Standards 1-3: How do ESL-Plus faculty for ESL and non-ESL courses without formal degrees in ESL demonstrate competency in CEA’s defined list of competencies on pp. 12-13? Is this demonstration consistent with CEA’s criteria for language faculty?

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Question(s) 2: Faculty Standards 1-3: How do ESL-Plus faculty for ESL and non-ESL courses demonstrate competency in English as well as its teaching? How do ESL-Plus faculty demonstrate competency at the level at which they are teaching?

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Question(s) 3: Faculty Standard 7: How does the Institute convey its performance criteria to faculty? To what extent are faculty aware in writing of faculty performance expectations and criteria?

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Question(s): (Other)

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