Go beyond textbooks and worksheets to create an interactive, motivating classroom where all students are communicating and achieving proficiency through community and a sense of solidarity. In this exciting, hands-on session, participants practice strategies that lead to classrooms with high student engagement, where students help each other stay in the target language! Participants will experience what it feels like to be a learner in class, and will learn techniques that guide acquisition.
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!
