2019 SCOLT Conference: Full Schedule

10:30am EDT

Beyond the Textbook: Proficiency-Based, Communicative Classroom Planning (1-6)

Planning in a communicative, proficiency-based classroom can often seem daunting. This session will give you practical tools to plan using student interest, as well as give you confidence to stray from the textbook while improving language levels! By creating threads and progressions, we can create a foundation using our students as the driving force of content. Each participant will create his/her own topic web then share and collaborate. For each progression, we will include themes of literacy, flow, and post-planning.

Speakers

Emma Bricker

Organic World Language

Friday March 22, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
108

Session - Friday

Host Organization English
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

10:30am EDT

Using Short Videos to Motivate & Engage Students (1-8)

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Short videos are a means with which to motivate & engage students in language learning & improve their intercultural awareness by providing authentic listening practice. Participants will learn how to use short animated videos with no sound, as well as cortometrajes from Spanish speaking countries, to engage students. Come participate in activities that accompany each video shown & learn how to find & evaluate videos for class use & to create activities to go with them.

Speakers

Julie Wilhelm

Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Iowa State University

I teach Spanish and am director of a semester study abroad program in Cáceres Spain and a six week summer program in Valencia, Spain.

Friday March 22, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
203

Session - Friday

Host Organization English, Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

1:00pm EDT

Authenticity: How to Use This Legitimate Resource in the Language Classroom (2-14)

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Authentic materials are those intended for native speakers. No authentic materials should be disqualified as long as there is proper selection considering the class proficiency level. But how do we choose authentic materials for the different student proficiency levels? What can we use? What can we do with them? This session will provide ideas on how to create activities using these materials with no translation at all language levels to subvert assumptions and engage students in the learning process.

Speakers

Ana Capanegra

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
209

Session - Friday

Host Organization Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Use Authentic Cultural Texts
Level(s) Middle School/High School, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

1:00pm EDT

CANCELED: Supporting an Engaging, Interactive, and Student-Centered Learning Environment (2-8)

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This session will focus on a more natural, authentic and (almost) stress free approach to teaching world languages. Keeping student engagement, motivation, and learning success high is possible by utilizing appropriate tools, methods, and strategies at the right times and for the right tasks. Presenter will share organizational tricks and concrete examples of small group instruction, station rotation, flipped instruction, CI, and PBLL for levels 1 - AP.

Speakers

Karin Woodrum

World Language Teacher - German, Lafayette High School

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
203

Session - Friday

Host Organization English & German
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) Middle School/High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English & German

1:00pm EDT

Let Me Google that for You - Using Google to Inspire and Engage Students (2-1)

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Google loves educators and students. They have a number of tools available for educators that are especially helpful to World Language educators. In this session learn how to take a virtual field trip, create an interactive map and share museums around the world with your students.

Speakers

Jane Debroski

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
101

Session - Friday, Best of FLANC

Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Innovative Uses of Technology / Digital Literacy

1:00pm EDT

Pre-Reading: Priming the Pump! (2-6)

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In this interactive session, participants will experience powerful techniques to prepare students for a reading. Learn how to pique interest and build familiarity with vocabulary and concepts through a variety of strategies that will leave you empowered and your students dying to start reading! Discover how to prime your students for optimum acquisition before you even crack open a book.

Speakers

Fluency Matters

Carol Gaab, President / iFLT Director, Fluency Matters

Fluency Matters offers an expansive selection of comprehension-based readers specifically designed to facilitate acquisition. Stories are written with a manageable number of unique words, making them highly comprehensible, even to novice-level learners. We offer the widest selection... Read More →

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
108

Session - Friday

Host Organization Various
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

2:00pm EDT

5 Tips to a 5: Classroom Tested Strategies for AP Spanish Language & Culture (3-3)

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In this interactive sharing session, participants will be equipped with some strategies to help them prepare their students for the AP Language & Culture exam—including in pre- AP classes. From podcasting & current events to peer editing & culture logs, participants will leave with ideas they can implement immediately. Teachers of any level leading up to AP are welcome & encouraged to attend.

Speakers

Bethanie Drew

2022-2023 NC K12 WL teacher of the year; SCOLT TOY finalist 2023; Teacher, content creator, presenter, adventurer, Broughton Global Magnet High School

Kristy Rogers

World Language Teacher (US)

Friday March 22, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
103

Session - Friday

Host Organization Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) High School
Language(s) English & Spanish

2:00pm EDT

Authentic Spanish Resources to Build Proficiency: Spanish 1 through AP (3-8)

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This session explores how to use authentic resources in the Spanish classroom starting at level 1 and taking them all the way through AP. We will discuss ways to support different types of students with appropriate tasks and focus on instructional strategies that use of authentic resources to build students’ proficiency in Spanish. Join us to see how the use of authentic resources can motivate our students to use Spanish in and beyond the classroom

Speakers

Lucy Amarillo

Educational WL Consultant, Pearson

Proud to be a language educator, military wife and mom.

Friday March 22, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
203

Session - Friday

Host Organization English and Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Use Authentic Cultural Texts
Level(s) Middle School/High School
Language(s) English and Spanish

2:00pm EDT

Engaging Language Learners Through Storytelling (3-6)

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Looking for ways to engage your students while teaching a second language? Try storytelling!! The presenter will share some strategies to use while telling a story. Jump on the wagon of teaching grammar (and vocabulary) in context! Also, the presenter will share some engaging Spanish novels too. Leave a long lasting impression on your students by being excited while teaching them! Create your "brand footprint" by engaging them while they acquire a language!

Speakers

Ana Velazquez

Spanish Teacher, Overhills High School

Friday March 22, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm EDT
108

Session - Friday

Host Organization English & Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English & Spanish

4:10pm EDT

Why Aren’t They Getting It? Make Input Comprehensible (5-1)

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The focus of this session is to understand what comprehensible input is and how to use a variety of instructional strategies to make input comprehensible in the world language classroom. Teachers will leave with concrete strategies that they can implement in their classroom immediately.

To see the presentation, click the link: Why Aren't They Getting It? Make Input Comprehensible.

Speakers

Melissa Perez

District World Languages Coordinator, Durham Public Schools

I am the World Language Coordinator for Durham Public Schools and a private World Language Consultant. I have 17 years as a World Language educator. I spent 12.5 years in the classroom teaching all levels of Spanish and French in middle and high school. I have degrees in Spanish... Read More →

Friday March 22, 2019 4:10pm - 5:00pm EDT
101

Session - Friday, Best of FLANC

Host Organization Various
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

8:00am EDT

#AuthRes for the Novice Language Learner (6-3)

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Best of FLAG: Finding appropriate authentic resources for novice learners can be a challenge. In my session, I will share sources for authentic listening, reading, and video resources in Spanish, as well as ideas for designing activities which are appropriate and engaging for novice learners of any language. Examples will be primarily in Spanish, but strategies can be adapted for any language.

Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R8OVsSYUc9QPDIgtBWK-q6Ff8P4_Dzf9w9T2aHznuCA/edit?usp=sharing

Saturday March 23, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
108

Session - Saturday, Best of GA

Host Organization Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Use Authentic Cultural Texts
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

8:00am EDT

Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry: Using Compelling Video to Build Proficiency (6-2)

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Our emotions & the stories we tell are strongly linked to learning, memory, & especially attention. Using short films as our guide, we will look at how we can leverage high interest, reaction-provoking media to engage students in language learning. Participants will leave with examples of proficiency-building activities that they can use in their classrooms immediately as well as skills to adapt the activities for other stories. This session is BYOT--bring your own tissues!

Speakers

Bethanie Drew

2022-2023 NC K12 WL teacher of the year; SCOLT TOY finalist 2023; Teacher, content creator, presenter, adventurer, Broughton Global Magnet High School

Saturday March 23, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
102-103

Session - Saturday, Best of FLANC

Host Organization Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School
Language(s) English & Spanish

8:00am EDT

What, Why, and How: The "Purposeandfunful" Classroom! (6-5)

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Are you ready to move out from traditional grammar based methods and still achieve your grammatical goals? Are you all in to engage your students in a dynamic language acquisition experience? In this session you will be provided with a handful of communicative tools, techniques and strategies to design your lessons quickly and efficiently and develop your students' enthusiasm. Samples of performance tasks, projects and video projects with scoring guides will be provided.

Speakers

Claudia A. Kechkian

World Language Consultant, CK Language in Action

Claudia A. Kechkian holds a Master of Arts in the teaching of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures from the University of Alcalá in Spain. As a life-long learner, she is now working on her doctoral degree at the School of Linguistics, Literature and Theater Studies at this... Read More →

Saturday March 23, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
203

Session - Saturday

Host Organization Armenian & Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

9:00am EDT

Activities to Promote Target Language Usage (7-3)

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This presentation will include the demonstration of hands-on activities used to encourage students to use target language in the classroom. Participants will also have time to share engagement strategies from their own classrooms.

Speakers

Barbara Chaves

Saturday March 23, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
108

Session - Saturday, Best of FL

Host Organization Various
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

9:00am EDT

Igniting the Language Classroom with HOT Strategies (7-7)

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Comprehensible Input is the key to facilitating language acquisition, and compelling input is the key to maintaining student engagement. Learn how to keep input comprehensibly compelling and how to simultaneously enhance acquisition by inspiring students to use high-order thinking skills- in the Target Language! Discover practical, yet powerful strategies to make HOT part of your daily routine from day one!

Speakers

Fluency Matters

Carol Gaab, President / iFLT Director, Fluency Matters

Saturday March 23, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
206

Session - Saturday

Host Organization English & Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English & Spanish

9:00am EDT

Lasting Teachings or Teaching for the Long-Term Memory (7-5)

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Have you ever heard “I studied Spanish for 2 years and I don’t remember anything!”? In this session we will explore concrete methods to address the underlying issues surrounding lack of lasting knowledge retention. We will address strategies to move learning from short-term to long-term memory. Presenters will share results observed in their classrooms when using such strategies. Teaching so that students will remember is possible.

Speakers

Krista Chambless

University of Alabama

Associate Professor of Spanish, French and FL MethodologiesPresident of SCOLTPD Director of AWLA2022 ACTFL/DL SIG Award for Excellence in Online Teaching2021 ACTFL Wilga Rivers Award for Leadership in WL Education2013 Educator of Excellence

Sandrine Hope

Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingha

French professor (asynchronous, online)Co-Host of the podcast Step into Mondays!Content creator for Teachers Pay Teachers (Scarlet and Friends)Editor for the National BulletinPotter (find my creations and videos about them on Instagram: French Frog Pottery)

Saturday March 23, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
204

Session - Saturday

Host Organization French and Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

10:30am EDT

What Goethe Can Do for You? (8-7)

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The Goethe-Institut, Germany's official cultural institution, supports and engages K-16 German teachers, students, programs and administrations. This session provides an overview of our activities in these areas with a focus on recent additions and program highlights projected for 2018/2019.

Speakers

Eileen Sellman

Goethe-Institut

Saturday March 23, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
205

Session - Saturday

Host Organization English & German
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English & German

1:30pm EDT

AIM Language Learning - Learning and Having FUN in the Classroom (Encore)

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This hands-on AIM curriculum, incorporates words, actions, and gestures for K-12. Story plays build language acquisition with grammatical concepts intuitively, teaching 1500 fundamental words per kit. Raps help students learn grammar concepts. Gestures reinforce language acquisition using hand signals. These enable learning vocabulary through plays, presenting the language visually and kinesthetically for students who learn better with multi-sensory involvement. Reading, writing, listening, and speaking make up this amazing program.

Speakers

Joann Nabb

Head of language department-retired, Aim Language Learning

How to enjoy and engage students in the classroom, involving them in speaking within the first few weeks where they actually enjoy participating. AIM is a creative intuitive method that works like mini-units of immersion, with maxi results.

Saturday March 23, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
209

Encore

Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School
Language(s) Chinese, French, Spanish

1:30pm EDT

A Technology Curmudgeon’s Guide to Twitter (9-3)

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We see it at every conference; the Twitter bird and the conference hashtag. But what’s the big deal? Our session will go through the nuts and bolts of how Twitter works, why it is helpful as a form of note-taking and information sharing at conferences, and how you can use Twitter to develop your own professional learning community, especially if you are the only person in your department. Come tweet with us!

Speakers

Laura Parker

I am a French and Creative Writing teacher at Burns High School in Lawndale, NC.

Stephanie Madison Schenck

PhD Candidate, Literacy, Language, & Culture, Clemson University

Laura Sexton

Spanish teacher, South Point High School

Laura is a project-based, passion-driven language educator and has been a Spanglish teacher for over a decade. @SraSpanglish

Saturday March 23, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
108

Session - Saturday

Host Organization Spanish, French
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English

1:30pm EDT

Empowering Students Lightens Our Load (9-7)

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As teachers, we are often people who do it all. But, are we doing our students a disservice? Let’s explore some ways in which students can be incorporated into preparation, content selection, and assessment. With carefully-designed and clear directives, we can empower students to take ownership in their world language learning while simultaneously reducing teacher workload in an effective and engaging way.

Speakers

Klett USA, Inc.

National Sales Director

Welcome to Klett USA, your trusted partner for German Language textbooks and educational materials! Our mission is to provide high-quality authentic German educational materials that foster intercultural understanding, inclusivity, and communicative competence, and to serve as a resource... Read More →

Saturday March 23, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
205

Session - Saturday

Host Organization English & German
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English & German

1:30pm EDT

Fostering Introspection and Articulating Learning Through Critical Reflection (9-5)

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Come learn techniques to encourage students to articulate what they are learning and why it matters. Through critical reflection, learners engage in the work of inquiry, discernment and self-discovery, as they examine their motivation, assess their progress, and identify areas for improvement. Providing students with a space to reflect on their experience learning another language and encountering diverse cultures helps them to think intentionally about how to cultivate skills and seek opportunities to enhance their learning.

Speakers

Angeli Leal

Saturday March 23, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
203

Session - Saturday

Host Organization English & Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Level(s) Middle School/High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English & Spanish

1:30pm EDT

Using Role Plays to Build Proficiency at the Intermediate Level (9-8)

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Frustrated with 2nd/3rd year students that are not progressing? Come explore the use of role plays for pushing students through the intermediate proficiency sub-levels. Attendees will participate in the role-play process to experience first-hand how to implement it. We will review the characteristics of intermediate learners and learn to craft role plays that push students towards the next level. Leave with the knowledge necessary to implement role plays next week, and with sample prompts in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

Speakers

James McCullough

Consultant, Organic World Language

I have been teaching Spanish in Atlanta, GA for 20 years and for the past five years have been using the Organic World Language (OWL) method and am eager to share this amazing methodology with as many teachers as possible.

Saturday March 23, 2019 1:30pm - 2:20pm EDT
206

Session - Saturday

Host Organization Various
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

2:30pm EDT

Skype in the Classroom: From Textbook Unit to Inspiring Virtual Collaboration (10-4)

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This session explores the transition from a traditional textbook unit about city life through a 4 week project utilizing Skype in the Classroom. The presenter will show you how to integrate virtual collaboration experiences into thematic units in order to globalize your lesson plans. The focus is on the importance of real-world activities, applicable in our daily classrooms to provide students with meaningful, lasting and enjoyable lessons. Pictures and student–generated products are shared and perused for clarification.

Speakers

Clara Maria Di Gennaro

Instructor, Edward Waters College

Yaneth Villaroel

Saturday March 23, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
202

Session - Saturday

Host Organization English, Spanish
Strand Learning Resources / Tools
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) All levels
Language(s) English