All World Language workshops are held at:
Chelmsford High School 200 Richardson Road, North Chelmsford, MA
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Raise your Comprehensible Input! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite activities and strategies to maximize comprehensible input in the classroom! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a CI-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Tech Tools for Dummies! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your recent tech discoveries! Strategize how to use a variety of tools to engage your students with the target language. Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a tech tool-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Dipstick with Do-Nows and Exit Tickets! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite warm-up and exit ticket activities to check for understanding! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a check for understanding-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Bring on the Seal! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share how your district has or will be implementing the Seal of Biliteracy! Where are you in the process? What are you doing with the data from the testing? How are you implementing the portfolio option? Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share current practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a Seal of Biliteracy-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: On the Path to Proficiency! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite proficiency-oriented activities, strategies, and assessments that have transformed your classrooms! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a proficiency or standards-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
8:30-9:15 Fishbowl Discussion: ED CAMP! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to launch new threads of discussion and engage in passionate conversation about any World Language-related topic! Ask! Share! Debate! In this open-ended networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. Conversations will be held in English.
9:30-11:00 Pear Deck: Making Interactive Presentations (55)
Patricia Sanchez, Barbara Taha
Pear Deck Slides is very similar to a slide show, like PowerPoint or Google Slides. But instead of static, informational sides, you get to create Interactive Slides that let every student participate in your questions or prompts right from their own devices. Pear Deck Slides give teachers the ability to engage and assess every student in every seat. Using Pear Deck will help you create an interactive and community-focused classroom that builds confidence and comprehension.
9:30-11:00 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Using the work of Robert Doisneau to Build Proficiency (30)
Melanie Ryan
Engage students in the interpretive, presentational and interpersonal modes while exploring the themes in the photography of French photographer, Robert Doisneau! Participants will leave with resources for an entire unit or ideas to incorporate images into an already existing unit. The examples and ready-to-use resources will be in French, but the ideas could easily be adapted to any language. Although I can’t promise you will get 1,000 words from your students, activities such as a photo challenge, classroom museum, gallery walk, “categories,” ask/ask/swap, T.A.L.K. table, hidden pictures and more will get them communicating. The presentation will be in Engllish with examples in French.
9:30-11:00 Teaching with Art and Objects (30)
Emily Scheinberg
Explore approaches for student discussions and activities around works of art and everyday objects. Enrich the world languages classroom with a range of examples of artistic work and visual culture. Promote students’ sense of discovery and wonder, while supporting thinking and language skills, through museum education strategies for student inquiry, visual analysis, and engaging students in collaborative learning. You will also hear about current and upcoming exhibitions at the MFA, including “Ancient Nubia Now.” The presentation will be in English.
9:30-11:00 Student Motivation: Engaging Your Students in the Classroom (30)
Mairin Chagnon
This workshop will explore ways to engage students in the classroom. We will discuss the use of self-reflective practices, blended learning, ACTFL standards, and collaboration within your department all to give students a more self-directed approach to their language learning process. The presentation will be in English with examples in French.
9:30-11:00 The What, Why & How of Teaching with Comprehensible Input (30)
Martha Cox-Stavros
This session is appropriate for all teachers – whether you have never heard of Teaching with Comprehensible Input or you have been practicing this approach for years. We will go through the basics, including the research behind TCI. We will also have time for lots of examples of particular techniques and strategies. Come one, come all to share ideas, resources, etc. We should all be “working smarter, not harder” and supporting our students in efficient and successful language acquisition. The presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish.
11:00-11:45 Lunch
11:45-1:15 Techtools for World Language (55)
Henry DeBenedetto
This workshop will introduce you to several apps and websites that you can use in your classroom to help engage your students and collect data from them. We will work with Quizlet, Duolingo, Memrise, Quizziz, and Seesaw. The presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
11:45-1:15 Paint Night (30)
Sharon Charbonnier
Explore how to use art and art history to develop communication skills in the target language at the novice and intermediate proficiency levels. The presentation will be in English with examples in French.
11:45-1:15 Beyond the Classroom: Creating Authentic Exchanges (30)
Veronica Gadbois
This workshop explores ways in which you may create authentic exchanges (pen-pal or travel) with partners at schools in countries where your target language is used. Some of the workshop time will be used for exploring existing programs and ‘jump-starting’ your exchange program. The presentation will be in English with examples in French.
11:45-1:15 Increasing Vocabulary Usage in the Foreign Language Classroom (30)
Jodie Leibowitz
We will explore ways to increase the use of vocabulary in different activities in your class. From in class activities such as conversations and interviews to writing and speeches, figure out new ways to incorporate and build vocabulary usage with your students. The presentation will be in English with examples in Spanish.
11:45-1:15 Spoken Latin Via Games: Strategies for Increasing Speaking in Classroom (30)
Chris Pappavaselio
Struggle to get students speaking in the target language conversationally using authentic dialogue? Adaptation of competitive games creates a low-pressure environment in which students will find reasons to speak in the target language, instead of avoid it. Participants will leave with multiple plans for games, support documents, and strategies for enrichment and expansion. The presentation will be in English with exampes in Latin.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Raise your Comprehensible Input! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite activities and strategies to maximize comprehensible input in the classroom! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a CI-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Tech Tools for Dummies! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your recent tech discoveries! Strategize how to use a variety of tools to engage your students with the target language. Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a tech tool-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Dipstick with Do-Nows and Exit Tickets! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite warm-up and exit ticket activities to check for understanding! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a check for understanding-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: Bring on the Seal! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share how your district has or will be implementing the Seal of Biliteracy! Where are you in the process? What are you doing with the data from the testing? How are you implementing the portfolio option? Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share current practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a Seal of Biliteracy-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: On the Path to Proficiency! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to share your favorite proficiency-oriented activities, strategies, and assessments that have transformed your classrooms! Ask questions! Share! Bring forth a challenge you are facing and listen to your colleagues brainstorm ideas! In this topic-specific networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. NOTE: Partcipants should be prepared to jot down (on a slip of paper) a proficiency or standards-related topic or question. Topics will be picked out of a basket at random. Conversations will be held in English.
1:30-2:15 Fishbowl Discussion: ED CAMP! (25)
Come one, come all! Be ready to launch new threads of discussion and engage in passionate conversation about any World Language-related topic! Ask! Share! Debate! In this open-ended networking session, teachers will collaborate, discuss, and share best practices. Conversations will be held in English.
