Longwood University
Education Practicum in Spain
(EDUC 370: 3 credits)
May 14-June 12, 2010
Information meetings in Ruffner 256 (or TBA):
(You only need to attend one of these, but are welcome
at all of them):
September 29 - October
15 - November 10,
3:30
November 18
Applications due
(Practicum Abroad Application, Study Abroad Application, Health Report,
Recommendation)
December 1: 4:30
Important Required Meeting for all accepted students
$650
deposit due.
For Future Teachers in all
Disciplines
Spend 4 weeks with a teacher in
a bilingual school in Valencia, Spain, helping with all the duties
your teacher carries out each day. Your
duties will include helping to provide small-group instruction or testing,
creating bulletin boards, grading papers, attending parent-teacher meetings and
faculty meetings, and more. All
classes and communications at the school are in English. The program will include weekend visits to nearby historical sites and
beaches. Completion of Spanish 201 or
equivalent recommended for participation.
- Education 370 Practicum (3
credits)
- Visits
and excursions to sites of cultural or historic significance
- Field
trips with class
- Homestay
with Spanish family
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3 meals per day (breakfast and dinner with host family; lunch in cafeteria)
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School bus each day to school
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Round-trip
airfare Washington/Dulles-Valencia
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Medical insurance
Program
price of $3,350 will
include airfare, lodging, meals, activities, excursions, medical insurance.
Tuition and Practicum fee for 3 credits is an additional approximately
$700 (Virginia Residents).
*Program price is approximate; it may change due to
currency fluctuations, airfare price changes, etc., but is not expected to
change drastically.
Important Meetings:
Important
Pre-Departure Dates and Procedures:
Information meetings (you
only need to attend one of these, but are welcome at all of them):
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Sept. 29:
October 15:
November 10
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3:30 Important
Information Meeting, Ruffner 256
3:30 Important
Information Meeting
3:30 Important Information Meeting
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November 18:
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Practicum Abroad Application, Study Abroad Application,
Health Report, Recommendation due.
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November 30:
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Notification of acceptance by e-mail.
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December 1:
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4:30 Important Required Meeting for all accepted students,
Ruffner 256.
$650 deposit due to Office of Cashiering, Lancaster.
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January, February, March, April:
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Further payment deadlines and mandatory meetings will
take place.
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(Important Payment Information: use the Study Abroad Program Payment
form, and please write the Acount number in the space provided. You will
receive the pink copy as your receipt.)
Spain Practicum Account: 81166
General
Itinerary 2010:
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Friday
May
14
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Departure from Washington-Dulles to
Madrid. Details
TBA
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Saturday,
May 15
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Arrival in Madrid; flight to Valencia.
Arrival in Valencia around 1pm.
We will be met at the
airport and taken by private bus to the Institute of Spanish
Studies to meet our host families.
Go home with host families; have lunch, rest.
Afternoon options:
Beach, explore, rest.
9:00 pm:
Be home for dinner. Get
a good night’s sleep!
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Sunday,
May
16
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10:00
City orientation walking tour:
Main Square (Plaza del Ayuntamiento), Post Office
Palace, Plaza de la Reina, Cathedral, Plaza de la Virgen,
“Calle de los Caramelos” (“Candy Street”), Serranos Towers.
Option: 12:00
Mass in Valencia Cathedral
1:00
Go home for Sunday Dinner
Free afternoon
9:00 pm:
Be home for dinner
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Monday,
May 17
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9:30 "Orientatión" at Institute of Spanish
Studies. Your
host mom will take you to the Institute, so that you can see
(and remember) how to get there.
The Institute has a computer lab and wireless that
you may use in the afternoons after you get home from school
on weekdays, if you like.
10:30 Leave for Caxton School (metro to
train station, train to Caxton), with Dr. Lily Goetz and the
Director of the Institute, Carmen Sancho.
Meet teachers, tour school, begin Practicum.
Ride school bus home.
6:30 pm:
¡Tapas!
Meet in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Sample some typical “tapas” before going home for
dinner. 9 pm:
dinner at home.
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May 17-
June 8
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Ride school bus to and from school;
Practicum.
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May
29-30
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10:00 Excursion to Sagunto.
Bring bocadillo
lunch from home or eat in restaurants.
Meet at corner of
Calles El Bachiller y Jaime Roig at 10:00 am.
6:00 return
to Valencia.
Free Sunday.
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Saturday,
June 5
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10:00 Excursion to Peñíscola.
Bring bocadillo
lunch from home or eat in restaurants.
Meet at corner of
Calles El Bachiller y Jaime Roig
6:00 or 7:00 return to Valencia.
Optional:
evening Soccer game
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Sunday,
June
6
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10:30
Churros y chocolate en Casa Valor, Plaza de la Reina
11:00 (optional): visit to the Roman Ruins,
behind the Catedral
12:00 (optional):
mass in the Catedral
Afternoon:
Beach!
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Tuesday,
June 8
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Last day at school; half day.
Farewell lunch:
paella at La Clemencia.
1:00 pm.
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June
9-11
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Free days.
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Saturday,
June 12
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Returning home:
You will take a taxi to the airport (keep enough
money to pay for this—probably about 20 euros); ask your
host mom to call the taxi a few hours ahead, and tell them
to pick you up by 11:30 am, and to send a taxi that can
accommodate suitcases.
Be at the Valencia airport by 12:00 pm.
You will change flights in Madrid and arrive at
Washington-Dulles Airport at 7:20 pm on June 12.
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Payment
Information:
Pick up
payment form from Office of International Affairs; fill in information, including:
Program: Practicum Spain
Program Account: 81166
Take payment and form to Office of Cashiering,
Lancaster
Make checks payable to Longwood University
(The Office of Cashiering will not accept payment without the official
form and account number filled in.)
Important Deadlines and Information
Study Abroad Application Form
Practicum
Application
Click on Practicum Application.
"Abroad" is an option under "Indicate your first choice school
division"--scroll down to the end of the list to find it.
Then click on
"Spain" in the Abroad Destination options.
Health Report and Release Form
Faculty Recommendation Form
Background Check Requirement
Responding
to Emergencies
Refund
Policy
Practicum
Manual
Check this site
often as we add more details, payment deadlines, etc.
For
more information:
Dr. Lily Anne
Goetz
Grainger 320
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
goetzla@longwood.edu
(434) 395-2158
Photo Album from Practicum 2009
Photo Album from Practicum 2006
Photo Album from Practicum 2005
With a Spanish family in Valencia
Information
about Valencia, Spain:
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American School of Valencia
Caxton College,
Valencia
Valencia, a quality lifestyle
The city, founded by th e
Romans and situated by the Mediterranean sea, is 350 kilometres from
Madrid and Barcelona. It is a prime tourist centre due to its
infrastructure and variety of things on offer to visitors.
Currently, Valencia is an important economic and financial centre
with an international airport, port, bus station and train station,
high speed trains, an underground train network as well as
connections with the European motorway system.
Valencia is the third biggest city in Spain in population, with
1,000,000 inhabitants and the first city in quantities of products
exported.
Its prestigious University, textile industry, City of Arts and
Sciences (the most important site of its kind in Europe), the
Conference Hall, International Exhibition Centre (one of the most
prestigious in the world) and the variety of hotels on offer, make
Valencia a city where the quality of life is very high and it is a
pleasure to live there all year round.
The region of Valencia (La Comunidad Val enciana),
has 485 kilometres of fine sandy beaches and rocky cliffs. You can
enjoy its clear waters for many months of the year as in this
privileged area there is sunshine for 2,730 hours of the year and the
temperature of the sea varies between 13º C minimum in winter and 29º
C maximum in summer.
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More Information about Valencia:
TurisValencia
Web
Oficial de Turismo de la Comunitat Valenciana (turismo, cultura, fiestas,
...)
Valencia:
Un Viaje Virtual
Guiarte.com:
Valencia
Valencia
El
Tiempo en Valencia (CNN en español.com)
Red
de la Paella
Photo Album from Practicum 2007
Photo Album from Practicum 2006
Practicum Students in front of the Torres de Serranos, Valencia
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching
Getting on the School Bus
Riding the bus with the kids
Farewell Dinner
Picnic at the Eiffel Tower
Practicum Students in Paris on the way home from Valencia
Photo Album from Practicum 2005
Kids at Caxton
Practicum students and supervisor at Peñíscola
Family in Valencia
Practicum student teaching her class
Shopping in Valencia
Practicum student teaching her class
Practicum student teaching her class
Practicum Students at the Farewell Dinner with
Director Carmen Sancho and Dra. Goetz
Caxton school buses
Longwood University Practicum Participants with
Ms. Anne Duffey, Principal (far left) and Ms. Barbara
Stenhouse, Pre-school coordinator (far right).
