This presentation explores an innovative cross-curricular approach that bridges World Language instruction with history and digital game design to create immersive society-building experiences. By combining language acquisition with understanding of other content areas, students engage in deeper cultural understanding while developing practical language skills in authentic contexts.
This session explores how to engage students in the Spanish classroom to help them build communicative proficiency. Participants will take part in instructional strategies and practices that are at the heart many programs. Using creativity and collaboration, they will determine how to utilize these successfully in their own classrooms to motivate their students to communicate.
Empower language teachers with effective strategies for boosting student reading comprehension. This session covers pre-reading, reading, and post-reading techniques to activate prior knowledge, set reading purposes, and encourage reflection. Gain practical tools to help students become confident, skilled second-language readers.
Do you want to see how you can have mini-units involving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) at the upper levels of your program? Create opportunities for students to have dialogue on problems locally and globally while also considering the impact they can have themselves.
In this presentation, participants will gain an enhanced understanding of different types of questions that guide our instruction as world language teachers, such as unit essential questions, focus questions for lessons/activities and how to lead a discussion. They'll also examine different levels of rigor in questions and practice creating high-rigor questions.
This summer as the recipient of the 2023-24 Centro MundoLengua travel grant, I was fortunate enough to travel to Madrid, Spain for a week for Advanced Placement training and immersive cultural experiences. In this session, the participants will be introduced to Centro MundoLengua. After discussing the immersive cultural experiences, have attendees brainstorm how they could adapt similar activities in their classrooms. If you are curious about professional development opportunities abroad and cultural enrichment, join me!
Are you a department head? Come get ideas for how to successfully navigate all the tasks, personalities, and obligations that come with this very important work, while at the same time taking care of yourself.
