2019 SCOLT Conference: Full Schedule

1:00pm EDT

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

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

Personal Interest for Performance: A Path to Lasting Proficiency (2-2)

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As learners are challenged to engage regularly in discussing relevant topics in areas of personal interest they enhance performance in culturally authentic contexts & can demonstrate improving proficiency. In this session participants acquire specific techniques, suggested activities & projects for intermediate & advanced courses that motivate & enable learners to utilize authentic interpretive input to develop & produce their own ideas on real world issues of interest to them. Assessment rubrics for performance evaluation leading to higher proficiency are provided.

Speakers

Rosalie Cheatham

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
102

Session - Friday

Host Organization French & English
Strand Personalized Learning
Core Practice(s) Design Communicative Activities
Level(s) High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

1:00pm EDT

Venez rencontrez EntreCultures: The Only Truly Proficiency-Based Textbook (2-3)

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Traditionally, publishers haven’t given teachers what they need to teach for proficiency. That’s why EntreCultures is different--come see the only truly proficiency-based French program designed with the end in mind. Each unit is thematically structured around essential questions and contains a summative IPA, formative performance assessments, grammar and vocabulary in context, and approach language and culture through the lens of interculturality. And if that’s not enough, embedded can-do statements help guide students in setting goals and documenting evidence of growth.

Speakers

Jay Ketner

Friday March 22, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm EDT
103

Session - Friday

Host Organization French
Strand Exhibitor
Core Practice(s) Planning with Backward Design Model
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

4:10pm EDT

Comprehensible Input Versus Standardized Testing: What Can Novices Achieve? (5-9)

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Language teachers and administrators may resist implementing Comprehensible Input approaches, including Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), fearing that students’ performance on standardized assessments will lag behind learners in more traditional classrooms. This presentation reports results from practitioner research that compared CI and traditional instruction among U.S. middle schoolers using quantitative and qualitative methods. Whereas CI learners matched the county average on ACTFL’s AAPPL listening and speaking portions, they reported far greater satisfaction and confidence with TPRS.

Speakers

Amanda Lanier

Program Director / Faculty, Michigan State University

Applied Linguist & Teacher Educator Foreign Language Teaching MA and Certificate (Online) https://maflt.cal.msu.eduDepartment of Linguistics, Languages, & CulturesCenter for Language Teaching AdvancementNational LCTL Resource CenterMichigan State UniversityAsk me about: lifelong pathways... Read More →

Alona Shupe

Friday March 22, 2019 4:10pm - 5:00pm EDT
204

Session - Friday

Host Organization English & Spanish
Strand Program and/or Educator Effectiveness
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School, Supervisors
Language(s) English & Spanish

8:00am EDT

Intercultural Can-Do Statements: Investigate, Interact, and Reflect (6-8)

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Examine the new NCSSFL-ACTFL Intercultural Can-Do Statements, a two-part tool that allows deeper exploration in the target language of both our own and other cultures. Self-assess your intercultural competence and experience firsthand how the statements clarify the inextricable link between language and culture. Come away with examples of age-appropriate activities for investigation, intercultural interactions and reflections for learners.

Speakers

Ruta Couet

Saturday March 23, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am EDT
206

Session - Saturday

Host Organization Various
Strand Culture and Interculturality
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School, Supervisors
Language(s) English

10:30am EDT

Teaching Beginning French Online: A Successful Experiment! (8-9)

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In this session, applicable to any language, we discuss the results and positive outcomes on teaching two beginning French courses (FREN 1110 and 1120) online with "Portails" and "VoiceThread". We will first describe the courses' structure, methodology and communicative activities, share students' oral and written samples and finally, analyze their overall results and class evaluations. We end our presentation with a general discussion on the rewards, challenges and surprising benefits of teaching beginning language courses fully online.

Speakers

Juliette Parnell

Saturday March 23, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
207

Session - Saturday

Host Organization French
Strand Innovative Uses of Technology / Digital Literacy
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

10:30am EDT

Teaching the Methods Course in a Post-Method World (8-1)

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This presentation will describe the thought process & results behind the redesign of a Methods Course for graduate students in their first year teaching language. This course often receives split reviews: those who love it, & those who completely misunderstand its goals & intent. In order to increase student satisfaction & help graduate students not just survive but fall in love with teaching, a complete redesign was needed. Two ACTFL publications & an open online resource are used as texts.

Speakers

Brenna Byrd

Saturday March 23, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
101

Session - Saturday

Host Organization Various
Strand Teacher Preparation, Recruitment, and Retention
Core Practice(s) Planning with Backward Design Model
Level(s) Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

10:30am EDT

The Great CI Umbrella (8-3)

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A common misconception amongst language teachers exploring new methodologies is that Comprehensible Input (CI) is Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). TPRS is just one component of the great CI umbrella! Come hear about some of the MANY strategies teachers across the world are using to build student's communication, confidence and proficiency through compelling CI! All while meeting ACTFL’s expectation that we are spending 90% of our class-time in the target language!

Speakers

Annabelle Williamson

Keynote Facilitator, Spanish Educator, Bricolage Academy

Annabelle Williamson (La Maestra Loca), 2018 Louisiana's FL Teacher of the Year, is a passionate 3rd-5th grade Spanish teacher at Bricolage Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, a public charter school in Orleans Parish. She’s taught for 4 years in Louisiana. She is passionate about Mi... Read More →

Saturday March 23, 2019 10:30am - 11:20am EDT
108

Session - Saturday, Best of LA

Host Organization Chinese & Spanish
Strand Personalized Learning
Core Practice(s) Using Target Language 90%+
Level(s) Elementary/Middle School/High School, Supervisors, Post-Secondary
Language(s) English

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

2:30pm EDT

Inspiring Curiosity in World Language Classes (10-1)

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How do we get our students curious about the world? How does curiosity impact language learning? When students are motivated to find out more, it's easy to get them investigating the target culture, reading and listening to the target language, and communicating with a purpose. This session will show a variety of lessons that start with a question and a communicative goal and lead to independent investigations that students actually want to talk about!

Speakers

Megan Smith

Blogger + Thinker, Creative Language Class

Blogger and teacher trainer passionate about real communication inspired by the target culture. Working to share resources, ideas, and solutions to help make language learning more engaging and meaningful to students.

Saturday March 23, 2019 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
101

Session - Saturday

Host Organization various
Strand Culture and Interculturality
Core Practice(s) Use Authentic Cultural Texts
Level(s) Middle School/High School, Supervisors
Language(s) English