{"id":11449,"date":"2018-05-18T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=11449"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:32:04","slug":"two-wll-faculty-members-granted-professional-development-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2018\/05\/18\/two-wll-faculty-members-granted-professional-development-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Two WLL Faculty Members Granted Professional Development Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two WLL colleagues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/amber-navarre\/\">Amber Navarre<\/a> of the Chinese language program and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/anna-zielinska-elliott\/\">Anna Zielinska-Elliott<\/a> of the Japanese language program, have both been awarded Professional Development Leaves for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Zielinska-Elliott\u00a0will make use of the leave to establish learning outcomes for a proposed interdepartmental\u00a0MA in\u00a0Translation and to conduct site visits to peer programs.\u00a0\u00a0If approved, the program will begin accepting students in the fall of 2019 and Zielinska-Elliott will serve as its inaugural Director.\u00a0Anna is a senior lecturer in Japanese and also a prolific literary translator, having published twenty books in translation from Japanese to her native Polish.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Navarre will use the semester leave to complete a book for Routledge on technology-enhanced teaching in the Chinese-language classroom.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While completing the book, Navarre will also continue her work creating videos for flipped learning, and on a federally funded STARTALK grant to support training of Korean instructors, which she obtained in cooperation with the Head of WLL&#8217;s Korean program, Jungsoo Kim.\u00a0Amber is a senior lecturer in Chinese and recent recipient of both the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovative Teaching with Technology and the\u00a0<span>Blackboard<\/span>\u00a0Exemplary Course Program Award.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Anna and Amber!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two WLL colleagues, Amber Navarre of the Chinese language program and Anna Zielinska-Elliott of the Japanese language program, have both been awarded Professional Development Leaves for next year. Zielinska-Elliott\u00a0will make use of the leave to establish learning outcomes for a proposed interdepartmental\u00a0MA in\u00a0Translation and to conduct site visits to peer programs.\u00a0\u00a0If approved, the program will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22870],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}