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workshops Content-based conversation guides: maximizing oral proficiency in the classroom Saturday, February 20, 2010 How can we support and motivate language learners to engage in meaningful interaction in the classroom? Learn how content-based conversation guides can improve oral proficiency and spontaneous speech. This workshop will discuss the interactionist theory and methodology. Attendees will work together to create different conversation guides using a content-based approach. making your classroom intercultural Saturday, February 20, 2010 Michael Byram takes the traditional framework for language learning and teaching and reconfigures it to a competency based framework for intercultural communication rooted in the ideas of identity and interaction. This workshop introduces teachers to Byram's theory in Intercultural Communication Competency. Participants will learn different methods for incorporating Byram's framework into the classroom: accessing authentic text, participating in global communities, global projects/collaborations, and reflection activities.
Colleen Coffey is a Spanish instructor at Marquette University and founder of Virtual Immersion Communities, a company that develops language curriculum and trains language educators in dual immersion methodology, intercultural competency curriculum and progressive best practices for achieving oral proficiency in the classroom. Ms. Coffey has coauthored Conversation Guides for Virtual Immersion Communties in five languages and a six level children's curriculum for dual immersion language learning via CALL. In addition to presenting at national conferences (ACTFL, CARLA, CSTFL), she facilitates workshops both nationally and internationally on dynamic and innovative approaches to language teaching. Through MaryKnoll Missionaries, Rita Keegan has been working in education,
community development and counseling for the past forty years. From classrooms
in the South Bronx and Chicago for five years to the jungles and the mountains
of Bolivia for twenty years, and in the immigrant and refugee communities
in Oregon and California for twelve, intercultural communication, respectful
acculturation and global community There is a $25.00 fee to attend one 3-hour workshop or a $45.00 fee to attend both workshops with lunch included. If you are interested in attending, please register on-line as soon as possible and send a check payable to MSSU by February 5, 2010. Please register in advance, as the number of available spaces is limited.
Technology and language learning: Using rich internet applications to enhance learning Tuesday, August 11, 2009 We use technology in our everyday lives, and so do our students. Why not use it for teaching? Technology can help make the language classroom more efficient, interactive, authentic, and learner-centered while addressing different learning styles. After an overview of reasons why technology should be implemented in the language classroom and what challenges we might face, we will learn how to use free new tools developed by the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University for creating interactive web-based multimedia, without having to program, download, or upload anything. This set of tools can be used with any language, any textbook, and any level. Learn how to create interactive language exercises that can supplement existing materials and even better: teach your students how to create exercises themselves to test their own knowledge. Create a web page where your students can record audio files that are automatically uploaded to your virtual dropbox. Embark on a Podcasting project together with your students. All of these functions are available to you from within a web browser, with no special hardware or software needed. Come and experience the next generation of web-based language teaching! Tech up your classroom: using rich internet applications for language teaching _resized.JPG)
Thursday, February 26, 2009 We will learn how to use free new tools developed by the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University for creating interactive web-based multimedia, without having to program, download, or upload anything. This set of tools can be used with any language, any textbook, and any level. Learn how to make web pages where your students can record audio files that are automatically uploaded to your virtual dropbox. Make a “mashup” that combines your text, pictures, video and interactive language exercises into one web page. Create virtual conversations for your students where they listen to questions, and the program captures their responses automatically. Have your students record their own podcasts and publish them in iTunes. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES
FOR THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM Saturday, October 11, 2008  Coooperative learning activities can provide a variety of ways in which foreign language teachers can increase opportunities for students to speak the target language. At all levels of instruction, work in pairs and small groups allows students to be involved in meaningful communication and motivated to use the language. This workshop will explore a variety of pair and group formats developed by Spencer Kagan for general educational settings and apply them to specific foreign language activities. This will be a highly participatory, hands-on workshop. Let's Get the Conversation Started!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Bring the classroom to life and motivate students with methods and strategies to increase use of the target language, even in the Novice-Level classroom. After an overview of establishing realistic expectations for beginning and intermediate level students, participants will engage in a variety of activities to promote real-life use of language by students which are integrated into an authentic language and/or cultural context. Methods of assessment and rubric design will also be presented. Communicating Learning through Fun & Culture Shock: teaching culture Saturday, February 24 , 2007 The purpose of the first part of the workshop is to look into ways of keeping students consistently motivated and language active in the classroom. The presenter will discuss and demonstrate how to prepare and implement dynamic activities for development and mastering a variety of language skills. These activities will be combined in thematic units based on standards-oriented and student-centered models. Come and experience TPRS and other learning strategies European style! Let us take you on a journey of exploring and expanding your imagination and creativity. The second part of this interactive workshop will focus on guidelines for selecting cultural units and methods of their presentation; ways to design a lesson as a dialogue of cultures; application of standards for culture studies; and activities to help achieve cross?cultural competency. The presenter will share international ideas and practices for securing a permanent cross?cultural presence in a FL classroom. Participants will rethink the role of the language teacher in introducing world cultures. They will also learn original strategies and activities for the classroom usage along with the ways of assessing them. In addition, participants will be introduced to the language and culture learning game "Quartet? Faces of Russia, France, Germany, Hispanic World, and the USA." The game is a fun way of teaching culture along with strengthening essential skills of speaking, listening comprehension, and reading.
PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
Saturday, September 30, 2006 This hands-on workshop will explore how we organize instruction in our foreign language classrooms in order to maximize learning. What kind of activities do we use at the beginning of class, in the middle and at the end? How do we introduce new material and then practice and process it? How do we get our students up and moving around the classroom while remaining on task? What's Gender Racing, Snowball, and Show Your True Colors? How do we assess students' knowledge and ability to communicate? With a modicum of research and a plethora of activities, this workshop will provide answers to all of these questions and more. You will come away with both activities you can use in class on Monday and food for thought as you reflect on your instructional practices. 
Creating your personal digital workbook
Thursday, March 9, 2006 This hands-on workshop offers participants the opportunity to learn how to create their own computer exercises for teaching foreign languages. Participants will make their own activities by using a collection of templates that allow students to interact with the computer, be it online or locally (CD-ROM). The exercises can be used on any browser and are easy to adapt to individual needs and to any language. Participants are welcome to bring their favorite materials (songs, vocabulary lists, pictures, etc.) to make their own activities. A CD-ROM with a Spanish/English digital dictionary, a conjugation engine,
a collection of listening comprehension, reading, and writing exercise
templates, as well as directions for their use and implementation, will
be distributed free of charge. The magic of music, storytelling and theater in language classroom 
Thursday, February 3, 2005 This fast-paced, interactive, and enjoyable workshop blends essential second language instruction objectives with performing arts activities, focusing on singing, storytelling and acting. This innovative workshop includes:
Oral proficiency interview Wednesday, February 4, through Saturday, February 7, 2004 The Full OPI Workshop is an intensive four-day introduction to the techniques
of administering and rating the Oral Proficiency Interview. The rating
scale and techniques for eliciting a ratable sample are highlighted and
then reinforced. Participants have the opportunity to observe live demonsration
interviews conducted by the trainer. Under the trainer, they then conduct
their own practice interviews with volunteer candidates. The group critiques
and discusses both these practice interviews and their ratings. Following
the workshop, participants may apply to become ACTFL OPI Testers.
Performance assessment Thursday, October 2, 2003 This workshop helps teachers to integrate their knowledge of the National Standards and the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners in order to reexamine their assessment practices. Teachers look at the limitations of traditional assessment and explore the benefirs of performance-based assessment tasks.
Integrated Performance Assessment Familiarization
Download: Scenarios.doc (MS Word) Participants will be presented with an overview of the ACTFL Integrated Performance Assessment at the Novice, Intermediate, and Pre-Advanced levels. The three modes of communication (Interpretive, Interpersonal, Presentational) and the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners are reviewed as they apply to Integrated Performance Assessment. After examining the tasks and rubrics, participants will rate samples of student performance.
Measuring Up To Standards: Practical Applications of the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners April 13, 2002
Advanced Placement Refresher August 23, 2001 Standards: Culture & Comparisons October 17, 2000 Integrating Internet Resources into the Language Curriculum August 22, 2000 The workshop focuses on connecting the potential of Internet technology to the principles of good langauge teaching. Participants examine and evaluate several Internet-based activities for language instruction, analyzing the characteristics necessary for activity success. Later, working individually or in small groups, participants design and develop an activity.
January 22, 2000 Topics covered: Review of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning Teaching Speaking: Interpersonal and Presentational Modes March 2, 2000 Participants review the principles of proficiency in terms of the development
of speaking skills, identifying functions and topics, elements of context,
and aspects of culture involved in particular speaking tasks, so they
can develop activities and strategies that will promote maximum student
involvement in oral communication. |
Saturday,
March 1, 2003
Focusing
on higher student performance, this workshop will look at long-range and
short-range planning strategies, lesson design, classroom practices, and
assessment tools within the framework of the communication modes (interpersonal,
interpretive, and presentational) of National Standards. The implications
of the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners will be discussed,
and participants will develop practical applications for use in teaching
and assessing foreign language learners.
Participants
will discuss the framework on which the Culture Standards are based and
analyze the three elements of culture: perspectives, practices and products.
There will be in-depth examination of how perspective, practices and products
of culture relate to each other and how they can be incorporated into
the forhein language classroom. Hands-on practice inn planning for the
inclusion of Cultures and Comparations in classroom practice is provioded.
The role of the Cultures and Comparations standards within the "Five
C's" of foreign language education is reviewed.