SDU Workshop (Participants can earn 1 SDU Credit)

Friday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m.-5:00p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Music, Storytelling and Theater Games for Language that Lasts a Lifetime!

Presenter: Patti Lozano, Author/Composer/Teacher

In this fast-moving, enjoyable, and interactive workshop, the presenter demonstrates the use of music, theater games and storytelling as effective instructional tools in the language classroom. Participants are always on the move as they are introduced to snappy original songs, innovative chanting techniques, improvisational drama ideas, unique "brain" games, choreography, hilarious storytelling activities, and open-ended role-playing strategies. Attendees explore the creative side of listening, speaking, reading, writing lessons, and, while working in small groups, large groups and individually, they discover strategies to activate parts of the students’ brains for maximum long- term retention and love of the target language. The activities are adaptable to all ages and ability levels. Extensive handouts include games and activities, and songs and mini-plays in French, German, English and Spanish.

Focus: All languages Audience: All levels

Workshop 1 - 9:00 a.m-12:00 p.m.

We can do more than just love them: Teaching a language to special needs students

Presenter: Susan Crooks, Pope High School

During this workshop the presenter will explain the strengths and weaknesses of the various special needs students (special education and at-risk students) who may appear in a language class and strategies that she has used successfully in teaching them. The presenter has taught German to special education and at risk students for the last 6 years.

Focus: All languages Audience: All levels

Workshop 2 - 9:00 a.m-12:00 p.m.

FLES Make and Take

Presenters: Dr. Carol McKenna Saunders, Georgia State University; Jo Ellen Hague and Sandy Payton, Chapell Hill Elementary

Join the fun and get your creative juices going. Experienced elementary school teachers from around the state share their material-making know-how during this Make & Take session. Participants will get to make items that they can use immediately with their favorite units from the Georgia Quality Core Curriculum. Handouts are provided.

Focus: All languages (French and Spanish are highlighted)

Audience: Elementary and Middle Grades

Workshop 3 - 9:00 a.m-12:00 a.m.

Building Web-Based Items with Hot Potatoes

Presenters: Jim Chesnut, North Georgia College & State University; Pam Middlebrooks, Sandy Creek High School

This session introduces attendees to Hot Potatoes, a piece of shareware that teachers can use to easily build on-line exercises and activities. Teachers may then place their work on the web for their own students and for anyone to use. Attendees will also be shown language sites built with Hot Potatoes that are already in existence. Only basic computer knowledge required.

Focus: All languages Audience: All levels

Workshop 4 - 9:00 a.m-12:00 a.m.

Strategies for Success on the Praxis II in Spanish

Presenters: Jana Sandarg, Augusta State University; Carol Wilkerson, Carson-Newman College, Judith Schomber, Georgia Southern University, & Annette Riley, Turner Middle School

This workshop helps prepare test-takers for the Praxis II Spanish exam by analyzing the types of questions found on the test and outlining strategies for maximizing success. Sample test questions, study materials, and tips on working with test environments will be provided. Participants will practice communicative skills in mock test situations.

Focus: All languages Audience: Secondary

Workshop 5 - 9:00 a.m-12:00 a.m.

How to Create a Highly Communicative Classroom for Any Language and "Move" Your Students to a World City for the Entire Year

Presenter: Sue Fenton, Metro Nashville School System

This dynamic two-part workshop will be dripping with ideas and examples for making a language classroom more communicative from the door to the decor to materials and props to all aspects of lessons. Topics also include how to apply everything you teach -vocabulary or structure-immediately to culture-based paired communication, and how to maximize communication for ALL students. The second part will present an exciting ''experiential" curriculum approach to use as a basis for a highly communicative classroom - "moving" your students into their own apartments in a world city for the entire year to learn language.

Focus: French and other languages Audience: All levels

Workshop 6 - 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Succeed as You Read

Presenters: Dr. Sue Barry, Auburn University; Melba Kendrick, Layle Muffley, Melyn Roberson, and Krista Walker (2001 Fulbright-Hayes Participants to Peru)

Participants will learn through hands-on participation how to create reading activities for all levels of Spanish, grades 7-12. Reading activities will be divided into four categories, pre-reading, guided interaction, assimilation and personalization. Workshop presenters will give examples for a given text in order to guide the participants through the process of creating instruction. Participants will also create reading instruction for a text of their choice. Additional texts will be provided for those who do not bring a text of their own. All materials are in Spanish.

Focus: Spanish Audience: All levels

Workshop 7 - 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Tea for Two: How to Create Materials and Fun Activities to Teach Languages

Presenter: Suttiwan Cox, Former Duluth High School teacher and current Fisher Fellowship Recipient

Involving students so that they can better learn is the basis of this presentation. Foreign language learning students should be constantly involved in activities that are both realistic and meaningful. The presenter will demonstrate how to teach a foreign language through fun and meaningful activities. Participants will take part in creating lessons and classroom activities from materials provided by the presenter. The presenter will show how imagination when combined with everyday materials and real life activities can create a lesson that is relevant to the students.

Focus: All languages Audience: All levels

Workshop 8 - 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Beyond Vocabulary

Presenter: Dr Carol McKenna Saunders, Georgia State University; Miche Baskett, Decatur City Schools, Margita Haberlen, Dekalb County Schools, Randy Stephenson, Forsyth County Schools, and Azusa Uchihara, Fulton County Schools

This workshop is a repeat of a 2-part session given by the Georgia Department of Education. Upper elementary foreign language teachers who were unable to attend the DOE workshop have an opportunity to attend this condensed repeat session. The participants will benefit from strategies to encourage meaningful interaction among their students while implementing the GA Quality Core Curriculum. Experienced teachers will model successful techniques and provide video examples as well as materials to get their students beyond the vocabulary identification stage.

Focus: All languages Audience: Upper Elementary and Middle Grades

Workshop 9 - 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Familiarization Workshop for the Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (SOPA) and the Early Language Listening and Oral Proficiency Assessment (ELLOPA)

Presenter: Lynn Thompson, Center for Applied Linguistics

In this workshop participants will learn about these two instruments developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics for assessing listening comprehension and oral fluency of students studying a second language in elementary school. These instruments have been used to help teachers assess the proficiency of their students and/or help evaluate the effectiveness of their program. The immersion and FLES versions of the SOPA and ELLOPA will be described in detail. Participants will see how students are assessed through tasks that are developmentally appropriate. Participants will practice using the rating scales through the use of samples from videotaped interviews, and they see how these scales have been used successfully and accurately to rate student proficiency in a variety of programs including the Elementary School Foreign Language Model Program in Georgia.

Focus: All languages Audience: Elementary, Middle Grades

Workshop 10 - 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

The Multiple Personalities of the Classroom Teacher

Presenter: Dr. Richard Beaton, Griffin High School

This workshop will uncover the necessary types of personalities that the classroom teacher assumes to bring about the education of today’s students. Examination will be given to the different areas in which a teacher and student interface. This workshop will include music, readings, and handouts that will combine to reinforce the absolute necessity of feeling good about your vocational choice as one of America’s unsung heroes—a classroom teacher.

Focus: All languages Audience: All levels

Make Learning Purposeful, Meaningful, and Relevant
Presenter: Isadora Arzú, Spanish in Motion/Active Learning
This session will include fun and highly interactive activities, hands-on activities, and role-play. The session will be divided into grammar, verbs, and vocabulary. The participants will learn to make their lessons come to life through TPR, music, games, presentations, innovative strategies, and cooperative learning activities. Learning occurs best when learners see tasks as fun and meaningful. Come join us!
Focus: Spanish Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Get Real or Simply Crazy: Exploring Modern Mass Media in Foreign Language Teaching
Presenter: Robert Bledsoe, Augusta State University
This session will propose one way to combine and extend two recent developments in foreign language pedagogy: the use of emergent media and the extensive use of realia with German students. Using the mass media marketing of Benjamin Lebert's novel, “Crazy,” the presenter extends the novel beyond the intermediate level to both the elementary and the advanced levels in ways that motivate the students to learn and are pedagogically sound.
Focus: German Audience: Secondary, Post Secondary

Strategies and Success on the AP Language Exams
Presenter: David Jahner, Gwinnett County Schools
This session presents strategies that teachers can incorporate in their lessons throughout the year in order to help students to be successful on the Advanced Placement French Language, German Language, and Spanish Language exams. Ideas about ways to get students to self-assess their progress with writing and speaking skills will be discussed, as well as methods to assist with vocabulary development and selecting appropriate reading selections.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Secondary/Supervisors

Melanges syntaxiques
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Lepetit, Clemson University
Entre le français réellement pratiqué et le français décrit dans les grammaires et les dictionnaires même les plus récents, il existe des différences notables. De plus, l'enseignement du français est encore très souvent basé sur l'apprentissage d'une description connue sous le nom de grammaire "traditionnelle". Cette dernière n'a jamais eu d'autre raison d'être que de servir d'auxiliaire pédagogique à l'enseignement de l'orthographe. Elle n'est donc pas autre chose que la mise en forme théorique de l'orthographe grammaticale. Pourtant, depuis plus de 70 ans de nouvelles descriptions, certes, souvent parcellisées, ont été proposées par les linguistes. Ces dernières semblent souvent absentes des manuels utilisés dans l'enseignement du français langue étrangère et dans nos pratiques de classe. Cette présentation a pour ambition de présenter les résultats de quelques unes de ces études. Et le temps permettant, de nombreux autres linguistes seront appelés à la rescousse. On ne s'attardera pas sur l'aspect théorique mais on mettra l'accent sur l'aspect pratique des descriptions proposées.
Focus: French Audience: All Levels

Speaking and Soap Operas in the Latin Classroom
Presenter: Patrick Yaggy, North Gwinnett High School
This session will propose methods of teaching grammar in the Latin I classroom and for teaching the history of the Late Republic in the Latin II classroom. The presenter will show how the use of oral spoken Latin can dramatically increase students’ abilities to master concepts of Latin I. For Latin II students, mastering the grammar is often not enough to prepare students to read Caesar, Cicero, Livy, and Vergil; students must also have a good knowledge of events and key players that took part in the Late Republic. Participants see how they can use a 12 Episode “soap opera” which highlights key events and political and military figures. Students act out events from the march on Rome by Sulla to the ransom of Caesar by pirates, and much, much more!
Focus: Latin Audience: Secondary

Friday - Session B - 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm

Middle School Foreign Language: It Works and How!
Presenters: Corrine Barnes and John Green, Douglas County Schools
Based on the experience of developing, implementing, and analyzing the results of a Middle School Foreign Language Program, the session will focus on the positive impact of Middle School Foreign Language from both a planning and everyday instructional perspective. Practical ideas that can be immediately implemented will be shared as well as specifics about the organization and results of the program.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Middle Grades

Using Power Point in the Foreign Language Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Dina Foster, Georgia Perimeter College
This session will demonstrate how Power Point can be used to teach grammar and culture in an interactive foreign language classroom. Examples will be in French but are adaptable to any language.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Secondary, Post Secondary

Marionetas Made Easy
Presenter: Ana María Morillo, Holy Innocents Episcopal School
Este taller es especialmente para aquellos profesores que desean y no tienen el tiempo para crear formas nuevas y entretenidas de practicar el español con sus estudiantes. La instructora mostrará cómo hacer marionetas de papel de animales y cómo usarlas en la clase para practicar el español de forma activa y creativa. Tiempo y materials serán proveídos para poder hacer tu propia marioneta y practicar una de las actividades demostradas. Entre las actividades están una canción, un poema, y una historia.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Tips and Tools for Spanish Students Needing Extra Help
Presenter: Cathy Wilson, Prentice-Hall
This interactive session focuses on practical, easy-to-use ways to help students work independently to improve their Spanish. See how to use print, video, CD-Rom, and Internet materials within a class, before/after school, or at home. Examples from PASO A PASO but are useful with any Spanish program.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Secondary

Simple But Magical Ways to Teach French
Presenters: Zitouna Zahedi and Chantal Edjang, Fickett Elementary School
This session is a "plus" for elementary teachers who seek to improve their strategies and classroom management. Presenters will demonstrate how to build a thematic unit and show great activities and games. Teachers will be given the opportunity to participate in a classroom activity as students learning a foreign language. All examples will be in French, but they are easily adaptable to any classroom. Handouts will be available for teachers.
Focus: French Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Saturday - Session C - 8:00 am - 8:50 pm

Classical Mythology a la Power Point
Presenter: Juan Carlos Martinez, Westlake High School
Participants will see how one teacher uses Web research to enhance student learning. Students are assigned a God or Goddess from classical mythology and explore websites to complete their research. They report their findings by creating an attractive presentation using Power Point.
Focus: Latin Audience: Secondary

The New Paris Chamber of Commerce Tests
Presenter: David O'Connell, Georgia State University
One of the most attractive reasons for studying Business French in college is to qualify for one of the “certificats” offered by the Paris Chamber of Commerce (CCIP). This diploma has often proven in many cases to be the little “extra” that helps French majors to get a job in the corporate environment. Now, the CCIP tests have recently been completely revamped. One result is that it is now easier for students to acquire such a “certificat.”
Focus: French Audience: Post-Secondary

Total Physical Response and The Spanish Verb Wall
Presenters: Sara Folkins and Cheo Bohaceck, Cobb County Schools
TPR Storytelling has been shown to improve long-term memory retention as students learn vocabulary through gestures in order to ultimately to retell a story. The session will shows how TPRS can be used in conjunction with the Spanish Verb Wall. A gigantic map that uses colors, symbols, and locations to enable students to see the “whole picture,” this chart empowers students to begin communicating in tenses as needed for communication before “mastering” them. Together these two form powerful tools facilitating foreign language instruction.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Middle Grades/Secondary

Glosario de Algunos Términos Usados en el Habla Popular de Colombia
Presenter: Dr. Pedro Hoyos-Salcedo, Augusta State University
Cada una de las palabras del habla popular puede considerarse como un acontecimiento histórico que sitúa un signficado y su propia acción pragmática dentro de coordenadas espacio-temporales definidas. En el habla común de los colombianos es usual escuchar un vocabulario específico que hace referencia a otros significados, diferentes de los asignados por la norma o por el diccionario oficial.
Focus: Spanish Audience: All Levels

How I learned to stop worrying and LOVE the Block
Presenters: Susan Crooks & colleagues, Pope High School
Many school systems considering changing to block scheduling are concerned about a variety of factors regarding the study of languages. Members of Pope High Foreign Language Department will present their experience from the last four years of teaching on the 4X4 block. Questions about retention, pace, enrollment, and the volume of material taught will be addressed. These teachers are eager to share the success of their programs.
Focus: All Languages Audience: All Levels

Assessment & Motivation: Elementary Foreign Languages
Presenters: Corrine Barnes, Douglas County Schools
(and other Douglas County elementary FL teachers)
Evidence corroborates the value of early foreign language learning. This session will focus on optimal classroom organization and instruction so that students (including Early Intervention Program children) are motivated to participate and achieve success. For the child, teacher, parent, and community, the assessment of this success is important. Ideas for varied practical means of assessment will be presented.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary

Current Issues in Foreign Language in Georgia
Presenter: Elizabeth Webb, Program Specialist for Foreign Languages and International Education,
Georgia Department of Education
This session will cover some of the issues confronting the foreign language community in Georgia as education reform continues, and it will suggest some positive ways in which foreign language instructors might respond to the challenges that accountability measures bring.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Saturday - Session D 9:50 am - 10:40 pm

Humor im Sprachunterricht
Presenter: Horst Kurz, Georgia Southern University
Das Kulturprodukt "Humor" ist nicht immer so einfach im Sprachunterricht einzusetzen, wie man meinen möchte. In diesem Vortrag wird anhand von Sketchen und Komik aus deutschen Fernsehsendungen die Problematik dargestellt; Hinweise zur Didaktisierung für den Unterrichtseinsatz folgen. Ein Medienpaket pro Teilnehmerln zum Mitnehmen.
Focus: German Audience: All Levels

Latin Clubs: They're Not Just for Toga Parties Anymore
Presenters: Keith Dix, University of Georgia, Liz Bouis, Wheeler High School, Jennie Clifton, Stephens County High School, Randy S. Fields, Harrison High School, Juli Fleming, Lovett School, Keith Toda, Brookwood High School
Latin clubs are important tools in the recruitment, retention, and education of Latin students. They also bring the continuing vitality of the study of Latin to the attention of wider audiences. A panel of experienced schoolteachers from a variety of settings, each with a successful Latin club, will describe the nuts and bolts of starting and maintaining a club. We will consider such issues as membership drives, developing a sense of community within the club, fund-raisers, publicity, social activities, local community activities and support, as well as strategies for navigating administrations and parents to successful student participation.
Focus: Latin Audience: All Levels

B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Beads)
Presenters: Kimberly Laderoute, Sandy Payton, and Joe Ellen Hague, Douglas County Schools
Want to know how to get your whole school involved, gain publicity, and excite kids about French class? Talk Mardi Gras! Pack in the culture with Cajun music, dance, foods, visuals, videos, games, and activities culminating in a school-wide parade. Handouts and door prizes provided.
Focus: French Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

High School Language: How Can Teacher & Student Keep Loving It
Presenter: Corrine Barnes, Douglas County Schools
This is a practical session based on thirty years of teaching by someone who continues to love foreign language teaching more and more--practical because the session will offer a variety of actual strategies being used with successful results for all levels of high school foreign language learners.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Secondary

On the Radio and Into the Classroom:
Applications of New Spanish Popular Music in the Spanish Class
Presenters: David Alley and Antonio Serna, Georgia Southern University
Participants will receive examples of new Spanish music in a variety of styles that are guaranteed to appeal to today’s young people. The presenters will describe and demonstrate how to teach specific grammatical, vocabulary, and cultural items through this music. The presentation will be given in Spanish.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Middle Grades, Secondary, Post Secondary

Hip-Hop, Have Fun and Celebrate the Power of Learning
Presenter: Isadora Arzú, Spanish in Motion/Active Learning
This session will focus an innovative and unique way to learn a language. It is an enthusiastic, dynamic, and interactive way to teach. It will also present teaching through music combined with TPR, role-play, step-by-step ideas to acquire language proficiency, and real life situational activities that motivate students for a highly interactive classroom environment. The presentation will also offer samples on how to motivate the students to speak in the target language in a classroom. The teachers will learn a variety of strategies and hands-on fun activities adaptable to any level.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Please…Read to Me!
Presenters: Deborah Riedmiller, and Allyson Ames, Atlanta Public Schools
Learn how to use children’s literature to achieve communicative and cultural goals. Participate on hands-on, interactive exploration of reading activities. Leave with handouts containing samples of student work, lesson plans, activity masters, assessment rubrics, and an annotated bibliography.
Focus: All Languages Audience: All Levels

Building Success For All Students: Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
Presenter: Cathy Wilson, Prentice-Hall
This interactive session shows how to use a wide range of graphic organizers to build speaking, reading, writing, and thinking skills. All students benefit from these hands-on and visual connections to learning. These techniques are applicable to all languages and all levels. Extensive handout and lots of ideas guaranteed!
Focus: All Languages Audience: All Levels

Cantos & Comptines+ Culture
Presenter: Mary Sosnowski, Sosnowski Language Resources
French comptines and Spanish cantos are songs and rhymes that render concepts and common expressions meaningful to children as well as add a cultural dimension. Audience participates and contributes as they perform all movements for each song. Handouts are provided.
Focus: Spanish/French Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Saturday - Session E 11:15 am - 12:05 pm

Roman Naming Day, Roman Funeral, & A Wedding
Presenter: Caroline Miklosovic, Davidson Fine Arts School
Presentation will include handouts and directions for students to have a Roman Naming Day, a Roman Funeral, and a Roman Wedding. There will also be a Power Point presentation of Derivatives for each chapter in Ecce Romani I and II. Teachers may purchase disks.
Focus: Latin Audience: Secondary

En avant la musique!
Presenters: Jean-Paul and Dominque Carton, Georgia Southern University
In this workshop-style presentation, presenters demonstrate a variety of folk and traditional songs and dance tunes from Quebec, South West Louisiana, and France and discussion of some of their cultural and linguistic features. Participants are invited to bring a tape or mini-disk recorder in order to be able to take the songs home.
Focus: French Audience: Secondary

A vise that goes a long way: Visual approaches to German grammar
Presenter: Sabine H. Smith, Kennesaw State University
A carpentry vise helps visualize German word order; “living sentences” reinforce learned material. Realia facilitate dialogue and role-play! This fast-paced, interactive mini-lesson models the progressive skill acquisition. Learning takes place in communicative scenarios reflecting ACTFL standards and ranging from partner/group work to peer instruction. Participants leave with ready-for-use instructional materials.
Focus: German Audience: Secondary

Eat up the Language and the Culture
Presenter: Bea Skeens, 2001 AU Fulbright-Hayes Participant to Peru
Every student's favorite way to learn language and culture is through eating. This presentation will show you how to develop lessons with authentic stories, recipes, and food advertisements. You will make and adapt a food unit for any level with strategies for reading, vocabulary, grammar and connections to other disciplines. We will share hints and tricks for cooking in the classroom.
Focus: Spanish Audience: All Levels

Bailes Latinos
Presenters: Enrique Vázquez, Richmond County and Matilde Pettengill, Columbia County
Demostraremos como enseñarles a sus estudiantes los bailes siguientes: la wanza andina, el paso doble de España, y el tango de la Argentina. Información escrita se le presentará. Si no tiene miedo de bailar y gozar, venga a esta presentación.
Focus: Spanish Audience: All Levels

Fables, Folklore, and Fuenteovejuna
Presenter: Clarie Stracke, Davidson Fine Arts School
This workshop will demonstrate how a teacher can involve the imagination and language skills of all students by using the Fables of Aesop, the writings of the Conde Lucanor, some songs and folktales of the Siglo de Oro, as well as Lazarillo de Tormes and two novelas of Cervantes to create a family atmosphere among the beginning readers and those who are already adept, while making sure that the enthusiasm that the more advanced students bring to the class does not lag. The presenter has prepared lesson plans, worksheets, computer “scavenger hunts,” rubric, copies of the material chosen, and a further bibliography that might help the teacher of the students find further readings.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Secondary

Leapin' Lingos for Spirited Sprites
Presenters: Martha Farrell, Our Lady of Victory Catholic Schools, and Susie Weston Davis, The Lovett School
Members of the Elementary Foreign Language Network of Private Schools will share their best ideas and brainstorms for games, songs, poems, and cultural themes. The presentation will include short videos of student performances, handouts, and curriculum resources for all languages. These members of the network teach ages Pre-K through 8th grade and will tailor ideas to meet each age level. Come and fall in love with foreign language teaching all over again!
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary/Middle Grades

Survival Skills for New Teachers
Presenters: David Jahner, Dory Rogers, Gwinnett County Schools
This workshop will highlight segments of a staff development course designed for teachers new to Gwinnett County. Topics to be addressed include activities for active learning, strategies for keeping up with the day-to-day paperwork teachers face, and classroom management. The presenters will model a variety of techniques throughout the workshop session that attendees will be able to take back to the classroom on Monday morning.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Secondary/Supervisors

GHP: What Does It Take to Make It?
Presenters: Melanie Hutsell, Douglas County Schools (& other GHP teachers)
This session will be a panel discussion by teachers who have taught foreign language at GHP. The session will focus on the selection process and the GHP experience itself. Participants will gain an understanding of the skills and characteristics important for success at GHP and the specific criteria used to select students for the program.
Focus: Spanish Audience: All Levels

Saturday - Session F - 2:30 pm- 3:20 pm

Back In Time: Latin is Not Dead
Presenter: Natalie Faulkner, Gwinnett County Schools
It is not even close! This workshop ill provide lesson plans and examples of reenactments that have been successful. The costumes, and food, and the ceremonies themselves, all aspects for creating these exciting classroom will be shared. A Roman Wedding will be featured as well as many ideas for how you can create your own reenactments to match the topics featured in your textbook.
Focus: Latin Audience: Secondary

French Cultural Services for Teachers of French
Presenter: Karine Larcher, Linguistic Attaché, French Consulate
This session will consist of a presentation of resources the French Cultural Services can provide to the teachers of French. These include how to learn and teach French with information on France and language with a series of interesting websites, information about continuing training, as well as resources for students. Study in France is highlighted with practical information and grant information proposed by the French government.
Focus: French Audience: All Levels

For the Love of Language Technology: How to Start up a Language Lab
Presenter: Bernice Nuhfer-Halten, Southern Polytechnic State University
This presentation will 1) provide suggestions for “faking it” when you don’t have a real language lab; 2) explore some software and Internet and other activities when you don’t have a real language lab; and 3) share a successful strategy for getting funding to purchase a real language lab.
Focus: French/Spanish Audience: Secondary/Post Secondary

The Dog Food Ate the Dog: Grammar & Meaning
Presenter: Catherine Johnson, Georgia Southern University
Through the use of humorous visual aids and interactive listening comprehension activities, your students will better understand and appreciate the connection between grammatical endings and meaning. Handouts and instructional materials will be made available at the session.
Focus: German Audience: All Levels

How To Be An Advocate For Foreign Languages
Presenter: Greg Barfield, Cobb County Public Schools
This session will present strategies for foreign language advocacy. It will also address the different governmental agencies that the public should contact to encourage quality foreign language programs.
Focus: All Languages Audience: All Levels

The New AP Spanish Literature Curriculum
Presenter: Marcia Wilbur, Athens Academy
The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the new required reading list and exam format, and the to get them acquainted with the different approaches to teaching the new curriculum. Participants will view sample syllabi for teaching the course following different approaches. They will also understand the rationale for the course changes and the criteria used to include works in the required reading list.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Secondary/Supervisors

TPR Storytelling, GA QCC & Textbook Adaptation
Presenters: Elin Q. Fowler and Claire Peacock Ragsdale, Paulding County Schools
You’ve discovered the fun and fluency of TPR Storytelling, and you’re asking, “How do I apply QCC Standards/the 5 Cs…, and how do I adapt my textbook for TPRS?” Come and share with other Georgia teachers their success with this technique: get examples of textbook chapter adaptations, new stories, and other materials.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Secondary

Tricks of the Trade: Creating FLES Success
Presenters: Margita Haberlen, Phillip Callaway, and Maria Wenger, Dekalb County Schools
Three FLES-teachers from a suburban Atlanta elementary school will show which elements are necessary to build a successful K-5 program, including tips on organizing after-school foreign language clubs. The classroom activities presented will feature various areas such as music, movement, culture, and cross-curricular reinforcement.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary

Saturday - Session G - 3:25 pm - 4:15 pm

The Grading of the 2001 Advanced Placement Exam
Presenter: Bob Burgess, Collins Hill High School
In this session Latin teachers will learn how the Advance Placement Latin exams are graded. The participants will read real student samples and discuss the standards. This should be helpful for the novice AP Latin teacher as well as the experienced teacher. There will also be an explanation about the application process for becoming and AP Faculty Consultant.
Focus: Latin Audience: Secondary

De la musique avant toute chose...
Presenter: Dr. Mary-Kathleen Blanchard, Augusta State University
Paul Verlaine emphasized the musicality of poetry. Sound and meaning blend. We will explore the phonetics and rhythm of “Chanson d’automne,” a poem typically taught both in high school and college, and see how the sound echoes and enhances the meaning. Other examples of poems with important phonetic patterns will be distributed. The session will be in French.
Focus: French Audience: Secondary/Post-Secondary

HOT Projects for Proficiency
Presenters: Nicole D'Antonio, Norcross High School, Stephen Frandsen, North Gwinnett High School
Tired of old textbook activities? Looking for some ways to successfully address higher order thinking skills? Try out some of these units that give concrete ideas on how to ensure you incorporate a variety of thinking skills in the classroom. Examples are in Spanish, but activity ideas are transferable across all languages.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Middle Grades

Speak It and They Will Learn
Presenter: Jorge W. Suazo, Georgia Southern University and Chris K. Bowen
This is an experimental approach to increase phonemic awareness in a kindergarten class using Spanish.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Elementary

Technology for Teaching Reading Using Legends & Myths
Presenter: Heather L. Young, Gwinnett County Schools
The use of technology for teaching reading will be shown with examples of typical legends and myths from the target culture. We will discuss the development and implementation of these lessons. Sample units for classroom use will be given to participants.
Focus: Spanish Audience: Secondary

Teacher & Student Teacher: Planning for Success
Presenter: Laura Ruffin, Jackson County Schools
The initial experience of a student intern in the classroom environment sets the tone for the future in many ways. This is truly the instructional “pond” in which the teacher candidate gets his/her “feet wet.” This session will be a forum for discussing the vital role of the supervising teacher intern on the road to professional independence and how to make this internship positive for all involved. This classroom-teaching veteran will share procedures, guidelines, and strategies through handouts and discussion.
Focus: All Languages Audience: All Levels

Life After FLES: The Development of a Sixth Grade Language Program
Presenters: Jennifer Speir-Hearn, Concordia Language Villages,
and Kristen Terbeche, The Westminster Schools
We will discuss our new sixth grade language program at The Westminster Schools with an emphasis on planning and curriculum challenges. Our situation reflects what most middle schools have been going through in curriculum development: there is excitement over incoming students with 3-6 years previous language experience. We have tried various schedules and levels, and we will share both tactics that did not work well and those that are succeeding. We invite participants to share their own experiences. Those who attend the sessions will receive a packet of language activities. Examples will be in French, but they may be applied to all languages at the sixth grade level.
Focus: All Languages Audience: Elementary/Middle School/Supervisors