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Friday, March 3
 

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

Building Proficiency with CI
This presentation demonstrates how to teach Chinese with comprehensible input, an instructional technique in which teachers provide input that allows EL students to understand most, but not necessarily all of the language. The presenter teaches super seven verbs (the most frequently used verbs in all languages) in Chinese and make a story using super 7 verbs together with the participants, who learn the super seven verbs in Chinese in a highly contextualized space.
Speakers
LL
DO
LS

Friday March 3, 2023 13:45 - 14:45 GMT+08
Nassau East
  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

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

A Peer Editing Collaboration between DE and College Programs
Taking advantage of the best practices in peer review training and guided editing processes in ESL writing courses, a DE instructor and college faculty use the same training materials to help their students to become more effective in their Chinese peer editing. The collaborative process helps students become more effective thinkers and writers. First, we train the students to be specific by identifying the location of strengths/weaknesses as well as the concrete issues using the correction keys provided. Second, we want students to make sure that their feedback is helpful by suggesting concrete ways to improve the composition. Third, we show them how to be polite by using set polite phrases and expressions using the "cheat sheet" created by the two presenters through collaboration.
Speakers
DT
LW

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

15:00 GMT+08

Breathing Through Both Nostrils: Teaching Yiddish in the German Classroom
In an effort to bring Yiddish and German closer, graduate students at Columbia University organized two workshops to foster collaboration between the languages and to conduct a sample lesson. This session highlights the first programmatic steps taken to 1) overcome the isolation of Yiddish within the Germanic department; 2) explore how Yiddish could be integrated into the Germanic language classroom, and vice versa; 3) create resources and strategies for co-teaching of languages that hold close cultural and linguistic ties; 4) evaluate future implications of this interlinguistic collaboration and reimagine the future language classroom. The steps provide the springboard for discussion and generating further ideas. Participants receive materials to adapt for their own use.
Speakers
JS

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

15:00 GMT+08

Connecting SEL Competencies with World Language Standards
In today's classroom, we are faced with a number of obstacles, from overcrowding to reaching diverse, reluctant learners. One thing the COVID pandemic has brought to the forefront in a more obvious way is the recognition of the impact of trauma and how it affects the way we learn. Teachers are accustomed to serving as coaches and counselors in addition to facilitators of learning, but how do we marry those aspects together? How do we address students' emotional needs while also teaching the curriculum? In this session, participants learn how a group of educators from Delaware worked together to align the World Language standards to the competencies of Social Emotional Learning.
Speakers
JS

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

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

Teaching Arabic to Generation Alpha in a Hybrid Format
This presentation showcases the challenges and successes of the Generation Alpha Arabic language learners. Participants learn how to effectively teach the Arabic language and cultures to Generation Alpha in a hybrid format—using various technology tools to promote cultural competence and facilitate communication. The presenter demonstrates the concept, the procedure, and the result of the Alpha Arabic language learners in the hybrid format.
Speakers
MM

Friday March 3, 2023 15:00 - 16:00 GMT+08
Madison
  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

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

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 Role of Translation and Translanguaging in Literacy Development
The emergence of multiliteracies as a key component of Foreign Language Education has led to a re-evaluation of translation as a pedagogical tool. With their focus on multiliteracy, translation activities provide access to authentic texts, and help students develop intercultural competence, as they engage with cultural narratives, in various modalities (films, graffiti, commercials…). The aim of this panel is to reflect on the potential of textual/audiovisual translation and translanguaging in the L2 classroom. It will showcase examples of student performance (in Greek and French), and reflect on the significance of translation as an instrument of mediation between cultures and as a tool for inquiry into the ways language constructs, and is constructed by, identity, culture and gender.
Speakers
SR
EA

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

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

Improving Literacy Skills in a Chinese Immersion Setting
The presentation focuses on approaches to balanced literacy in a Chinese immersion setting to help students achieve high proficiency levels of ACTFL standards and meet the grade-appropriate Common Core Language Arts standards. Presenters use Grade 3-7 classroom examples to demonstrate the setup of the literature circles and the roles and jobs and walk through a narrative writing unit. Students are introduced to different writing strategies and apply them effectively to pick the right “tiny topic”, brainstorm, plan, and draft to help students tell their life stories in Chinese.
Speakers
QW
SZ

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

08:45 GMT+08

Loving the IPA: Way Beyond Assessment
Speakers
KS

Saturday March 4, 2023 08:45 - 09:45 GMT+08
Regent
  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

Everyone's an alie(b)n: Identity and Language for Novices
Discussing meaningful topics with Novice learners in the target language can feel hard. They are able to speak about themselves, but can they really dig deeper into questions of identity with their limited language? Focus on one French teacher's attempt to use existing literature (Everyone's an aliebn when you're an aliebn too by Jonny Sun) to create identity-driven activities for her students. Examples and resources are shared and participant feedback is sought on how this work could continue to be developed and improved.
Speakers
RV

Saturday March 4, 2023 10:30 - 11:30 GMT+08
Morgan
  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

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
 
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