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Friday, March 3
 

11:30 GMT+08

Moving from Input to Interaction: IPA Framework for Learning Design
Survey
An IPA (Integrated Performance Assessment) is an assessment sequence using the modes of communication–Interpretive, Interpersonal, & Presentational–but which can also provide a framework to design curriculum and instruction. We can repurpose the IPA as a framework for designing learning sequences and curricular units. We explore the IPA framework to deliberately move learners from meaningful input to authentic interaction, providing specific classroom examples drawing from our new (2022) ACTFL publication “Proficiency-Based Instruction: Input & Interaction in World Language Education.”
Friday March 3, 2023 11:30 - 12:30 GMT+08
TBA
  Professional Learning Session 2

11:30 GMT+08

Proficiency and SEL Start on Day 1
What is the #1 thing learners say they want to get out of their world language classes? They want to speak the language! So, let's get them started in their proficiency journey on day one. Under the right conditions, this is possible! Proficiency and SEL walk hand in hand in creating language learners and users in real-world situations that can forge positive relationships, develop empathy for others and learn responsibility. This session will share some ideas and examples that are proficient-focused, SEL anchored, cognitively engaging, and performance-based driven.
Friday March 3, 2023 11:30 - 12:30 GMT+08
TBA
  Professional Learning Session 2

13:45 GMT+08

A venir: Child’s Play and Language Learning
This session presents practical and readily adaptable instructional strategies to keep young learners interested and motivated. A thematic approach, incorporating stories, music and most importantly, play, captures students’ interest and whets the appetite for a range of language learning tasks, including repetition, listening comprehension and role play. The activities are repetitive and scaffolded and require no writing, making it suitable for young children, and students who learn differently. After modelling various themes and after discussing the instructional strategies, each participant develops a thematic language session individually. A speed date activity follows to sample the sessions and provide constructive feedback to each other.
Speakers
LS

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Madison
  Professional Learning Session 3

13:45 GMT+08

Drones, Neighborhoods and New Perspectives
Participants learn how utilizing aerial pictures taken by drones and flying drones can foster student exchanges in the target language and interact with a variety of activities to re-envision a neighborhood unit by integrating creativity with language, target culture authenticity and technology. The presenter showcases how she led her elementary students to create and describe their ideal LEGO neighborhood.
Speakers
FB

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Nassau West
  Professional Learning Session 3

13:45 GMT+08

Effective Language Acquisition Through Music
Music is an invaluable tool in the World Language classroom. Music helps us develop cultural awareness in the target language while lowering the Affective Filter. But the songs we choose are often too complex, with advanced vocabulary and colloquialisms that novice and intermediate learners can't yet grasp. Learn how to effectively use music in your World Language class to provide repeated exposure to target structures, and sustain comprehensible interaction in the L2, all while developing cultural awareness. This session is hands-on, so teachers can take the tools and resources to easily integrate the activities and units right back into their classrooms. No prior experience or background is necessary but come prepared to sing and dance to fully embrace the music!
Speakers
DT

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 3

13:45 GMT+08

Engagement Reclaimed!
What does engagement look like in a world language classroom? How do teachers incorporate authentic materials while also making instruction student-centered? Let’s discuss innovative ways to reach students and engage them in using the target language! French and Spanish resources will be shared and participants will have the opportunity to reflect, collaborate and share their own ideas. Take away practical strategies that you can implement in your classroom right away!
Speakers
JS

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Regent
  Professional Learning Session 3

13:45 GMT+08

Modeling Unit Design: UN Sustainable Development Goals & Intercultural Citizenship
Participants examine model units, grounded in authentic United Nations SDGs in which students build intercultural citizenship by addressing environmental challenges. Models of learning progressions at both Novice and Intermediate levels show how students build intercultural communicative competence solving real world problems through action projects. These units serve as models to illustrate the learning activities that build toward the summative tasks. Teachers discuss learning opportunities that allow students to apply communicative competence in action projects addressing environmental problems while demonstrating intercultural citizenship skills.
Speakers
MW
LG

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 3

13:45 GMT+08

Using Differentiation to Create a Personalized Experience
The presenter shares strategies for differentiating content, process, and product using the research of Carol Ann Tomlinson and her team. Through learning how to differentiate, teachers are able to create proficiency-oriented tasks and assessments to meet the readiness levels of all learners. The presenter explains how to create differentiated tasks and assessments and will model differentiated teaching techniques throughout the presentation. The presenter shares examples of activities, assessments, rubrics and templates for teachers to create differentiated activities during the session.
Speakers
VR

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Gibson
  Professional Learning Session 3

15:00 GMT+08

Enhancing Target Language Proficiency With Level-Up Words and Phrases
How do we take students' language beyond the basic content vocabulary of nouns, verbs, and adjectives? “Level-up” words and phrases are pieces of the target language that are not inherently tied to any content like school, hobbies, or the environment, but rather enhance students’ language abilities and broaden their linguistic repertoire. High frequency phrases like it seems like, this is why, and as a result are a few English examples. Learn why we should include this language in our classes, discover how to incorporate them into everyday lessons, and see examples of how to use Extempore to facilitate exposure and meaningful practice of this language.
Speakers
KR

Friday March 3, 2023 15:00 - 16:00 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 4

15:00 GMT+08

Hooray for the heroes!
Explore the world of heroes and legends in the French speaking world through interdisciplinary units which provide a path for learners to investigate and interact with cultural competence in the target language. Lessons on the scientific heroes Marie Curie and Jacques Cousteau, historical figure Olympes de Gouges, and feminist writer George Sand are shared with participants. The lessons provide examples of opportunities to use authentic materials in our classrooms, and to develop critical thinking skills while investigating the people who shaped the world of today. Participants have time to discuss application of this concept for their own unique language learners.
Speakers
BM
JM

Friday March 3, 2023 15:00 - 16:00 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 4

15:00 GMT+08

Yes, You can Create a Total Immersion Classroom
It is possible to have an English-free, target language only environment. I introduce some of the techniques, strategies, and methodology of the Accelerative Integrated Methodology (AIM) that, when combined holistically, create an immersion-like classroom. You have the opportunity to learn and practice some AIM gestures paired with high-frequency words that will quickly move your students to spontaneously communicating their own thoughts in the target language. Student comprehension and oral output will soar once they are freed from memorizing and being passive listeners.
Speakers
ES

Friday March 3, 2023 15:00 - 16:00 GMT+08
Gibson
  Professional Learning Session 4

16:30 GMT+08

Creating WL Certificates to Increase Community College Enrollment & Success
Feeling stressed by dropping enrollments in your programs? Enrollment in World Language courses at community colleges have been dropping over the last 12 years. This presentation describes the importance of the WL certificate as a valuable option for students to document their language and culture skills, and the process of creating such a program. By offering a certificate program, with the option of credentialing through the Global Seal of Biliteracy, more students can be reached in other disciplines as well as attracting students from local businesses who might want to increase their job skills. Participants find out how two different community colleges have created WL certificate programs to boost enrollment and provide students with skills for transfer and workforce.
Speakers
CG
ES

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Morgan
  Professional Learning Session 5

16:30 GMT+08

Let's get out there. Engaging our students in their communities
Many students choose to study a language, because they want to use it for their enjoyment and advancement in their communities. In this session we explore using Communities standard to engage students, present them with real world opportunities to use their newly acquired language in their schools and communities. During the height of the pandemic, many people disengaged from the community. We re-examine how local communities can be a language learning resource and how learners can use their language skills in their communities.
Speakers
TA

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 5

16:30 GMT+08

Number Talks in a Dual Language Immersion Setting
Teachers know that every minute counts in the classroom, so multipurpose instructional routines can be instrumental in maximizing student learning. Number talks are a low-investment, high-reward practice that offer students and teachers a daily opportunity to build both computational and target language fluency while increasing student confidence in their mathematical skills and creating a classroom community in which everyone feels comfortable sharing their ideas. In this session, learn the basics of how and why number talks are effective, hear and see examples from a first-grade Spanish dual language immersion classroom, and leave with everything you need to adapt and implement this tool with your own students!
Speakers
JI

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Regent
  Professional Learning Session 5

16:30 GMT+08

Painting the Walls with arte urbano
"Arte urbano" or "arte callejero" is a colorful, eye catching - at times controversial - art form that provides a unique context for students to connect with both the Spanish language and the communities where it is spoken in the United States and around the world. Students respond well to this versatile authentic resource that can be integrated into units on everything from identity, food, family, clothing and health, to historical events and figures, and even the issues that challenge numerous communities such as climate change, immigration, gun violence, and human rights. It's versatility makes it appropriate for all 3 modes ( interpretive, interpersonal and presentational). Materials are shared and participants use Spanish to connect with the art and each other.
Speakers
AC

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Madison
  Professional Learning Session 5

16:30 GMT+08

Speak Up - Oral communication through Play
Interacting in a language class can be intimidating for the best of us. However, engaging in oral interactions is paramount to becoming proficient in a language, to believing in one's own abilities and engaging in the learning process.
Speakers
CF

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 5

16:30 GMT+08

The Power of Positivity! A FLES Unit on Growth Mindset
Sergio is a 3rd grade student at {Insert your school name}. Sergio has many strengths, but has a hard time seeing them. He often says negative things to himself, especially in school. Come see how your students will come to the rescue and help Sergio go from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, all the while internalizing these messages and strategies for themselves. Thanks to the Power of Positivity, Sergio takes these lessons and applies them, seeing how his outlook can change every aspect of his day!
Speakers
SS
NL

Friday March 3, 2023 16:30 - 17:30 GMT+08
Sutton North
  Professional Learning Session 5
 
Saturday, March 4
 

08:45 GMT+08

CANVAS in the WL Classroom: Effiency and Best Practices
In the last few years, CANVAS has become increasingly important for many of our classes. Many of us are required to use it, but have we been using it effectively? We explore ways to combine best practices for language instruction with existing CANVAS tools to deliver instruction and assessment in the most pedagogically sound way possible and explore ways to promote and assess all modes of communication within the canvas platform. We look at different strategies for formative and summative assessment using the CANVAS tools that allow us to go beyond discrete point grammar and vocabulary activities
Speakers
JV
KR

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Culture Cubed: Choose, Connect, Create
This session focuses on the development of multimodal skills through culturally relevant, thematically appropriate authentic resources. Participants will learn to use carefully crafted templates, adaptable for all languages, to create choice boards that explore the products, practices and perspectives of the target culture through all three modes of communication. Choice Boards are engaging, hands-on, student-centered lessons that appeal to all learning styles. Guide students to discover, understand, and connect with the target cultures and empower them to show their transfer of knowledge through self-selected activities that appeal to their strengths or interests
Speakers
AS
CS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Nassau West
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Going to the Movies: Developing Proficiency-Oriented Units Using Film
This session highlights the development and sequencing of a proficiency-oriented unit that uses a feature film in the target language as its base. Participants discover how to gather supporting authentic resources, utilize engaging discussion techniques, underscore targeted grammatical structures and develop appropriate assessments that support the themes of the film aligned with proficiency goals. By using high-frequency vocabulary and high-interest topics these engaging units of film study provide optimal comprehensible input and boost language acquisition.
Speakers
MK
CP

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Madison
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Language Beyond the Classroom: Teacher of the Year Panel Discussion
Do you struggle with ideas for how to empower your students to use the language beyond the walls of your classroom? Come and learn from the 2022 NECTFL Teachers of the Year state finalists! From empowering your students to teach younger students in your school community, to showcasing student work around town, Teachers of the Year from the northeast region share some of the strategies they implement to practice the Communities standard and advocate for their language programs in their broader communities. Examples are in Spanish, French, Latin, and Chinese across all age groups.
Speakers
TA
RA
HL

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Sutton South
  Professional Learning Session 6

08:45 GMT+08

Stop Drowning in Papers: Practical Strategies for Engaging Learning
How do we get students to engage with content so that meaningful learning happens? How can educators gradually release responsibility for learning over to students, so that students do more of the work? Join this ACTFL Teacher of the Year and experience hands-on learning of activities that engage students in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving. Most activities are low or no-prep and can be reused at various levels and with varied content. They hit multiple modes of communication, use authentic resources, support social justice themes, and require students to speak interpersonally. The learning routines require students show what they are thinking and learning decreasing grading. Step away from the copy machine and say good-bye to your turn in work bin!
Speakers
KG

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 6

10:30 GMT+08

Interculturality: Helping Students Understand Identity
How can we move beyond sporadically teaching about culture and identity, and integrate these concepts into our lessons on a daily basis? This session will explore interculturality and identity in the language classroom and demonstrate some simple strategies for making important cultural connections and comparisons. We will also look at how EntreCulturas and EntreCultures from Wayside Publishing help teachers achieve their interculturality goals while also focusing on language acquisition.
Speakers
MO
KS

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton Center
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Meeting Them Where They’re at Through Thematic Planning
How can we plan common learning experiences for students who learn at different rates? How can we develop proficiency, when they need different things? We provide strategies for meeting students where they’re at by leveraging thematic units to appropriately challenge each student through a common learning experience. This includes how to provide students with opportunities to self-differentiate during instruction, assessments, and learning activities, so that they are all talking about the same thing, but each working on their own proficiency growth. Let's meet them where they're at!
Speakers
RA

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton North
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

my Identidad
Have you ever explored how your past, present, and future show up in the classroom? Do you wonder how you can uncover and examine the roots of your identidad in order to grow your competencia sociocultural alongside the students you serve? Through a Two-Way Immersion Lens, we will guide you to reflect on your past, present, and future, and how to apply these guided reflections in your Pre-K to 12th grade classrooms. A few of the tasks we will investigate together will be: memoirs, challenging games, how-tos, inspiring videos, and a map of dreams. Join us as we incorporate critical consciousness and social justice into our planning, collegial conversations, advocacy, and instructional practices.
Speakers
SK
DB

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Regent
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

NOVUM INITIUM: Building Proficiency in World Language Classrooms
William Lee, the 2023 ACTFL National Langauge Teacher of the Year, shares instructional strategies to engage and motivate students, combining language and culture to develop learners' language performance. These strategies, both technology-based and non-technology-based, can help you reach all kinds of learners in the classroom and are applicable to all languages and levels. Be inspired with new ideas and examples that can have immediate impact in your classroom.
Speakers
WL

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Sutton South
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Relationship Building & Global Competency: Meaningful Virtual Exchanges
Your classroom walls have no limits! Are you a language educator who would like to create global partnerships via dynamic exchanges for your students? Would you like to empower your students to use their voices and investigate the world through empathy-building opportunities without revamping your curriculum? You will be given practical tools to start your own partnerships and connections in order to have your students exchange stories and gain new perspectives while building confidence in their language skills. See dynamic examples of Spanish language students building their global competency with partners around the Spanish-speaking world without a passport and how your students could do it too!
Speakers
AB
RJ

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Bryant
  Professional Learning Session 7

10:30 GMT+08

Who’s Doing The Heavy Lifting?
How do we guide learners from input to output while also making our students more independent learners? The Gradual Release of Responsibilities (I do, we do, you do) is a framework to help scaffold our lessons and units to achieve those goals. Explore this framework and how it applies to learning a second language. We examine lesson examples in the 3 modes of communication as well as how to apply this framework to planning thematic units that gradually guides students to communicating independently
Speakers
MT

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Beekman
  Professional Learning Session 7
 
Thursday, June 1
 

10:10 GMT+08

"Creative Musicianship": New Qualifications to Widening Participation in Music Education in Scottish Schools
Thursday June 1, 2023 10:10 - 10:40 GMT+08
TBA
 
Sunday, December 31
 

11:30 GMT+08

Beyond Comprehension Questions with Short Film
Survey
Short film is a powerful authentic resource and tool to be used with L2 students. However in our class many times short film does not go beyond a set of comprehension questions. This session uncovers how short film can build a unit that incorporates AP themes, 3 modes of communication, builds interpersonal communicative competence with the 3 P’s (products, practices and perspectives) and promotes language aquisition.
Sunday December 31, 2023 11:30 - 12:30 GMT+08
TBA
  Professional Learning Session 2
 
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