Friday, February 27, 2004
Lower Lobby 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Registration
Room K/L 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. -- SDU Class (Must Pre-register)
(Will meet again on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.)
New Standards, New Opportunities: Getting Down to Brass Tacks
Presenters: Elizabeth Webb, Program Specialist for Foreign
Languages and International Education, Georgia Department of
Education, Jim Sheppard, German, Screven County Schools, and
Rosemary Batson, Spanish, Clayton County Schools, and Andra
Gammage, French, Clayton County Schools
Focus:All Languages
Audience: Middle Grades (Teachers of Level 1 or 2), Secondary
The State Board of Education approved new QCC Standards for Modern and Classical Languages in December of 2002. The new standards went into effect for the 2003-2004 school year. This workshop will provide a practical introduction to the new QCC, including examples of newly-developed local curricula for French, German and Spanish based upon the new standards. Workshop participants will use the new standards to begin planning thematic, standards-based lessons and units of their own, with appropriate formative and summative assessment activities. Bring your textbook and the materials you use in teaching your favorite unit!
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. -- Pre-Conference Workshops
(You must Pre-register for these classes)
Room R #1 FLES: Make It/Take It
Presenter: Anne-Marie Sasser, Chestatee Elementary School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Elementary
Elementary school foreign language teachers team up to share classroom activities that have proven successful in their classrooms. Each teacher will model an activity at one of eight Make and Take stations. Workshop participants will rotate among the stations and have a chance to make materials to be used in activities that reflect Georgia QCC objectives for foreign language.
Room Y/Z #2 Praxis II Workshop
Presenters: Anja Bernardy, Thierry Leger, and Sabine Smith, Kennesaw State University
Focus: French, German, and Spanish
Audience: All Levels
This workshop will take you step-by-step through each section of the Praxis II exam. You will learn about proficiency expectations, typical pitfalls, and test-taking strategies, practice tasks similar to those on the exam, and receive feedback on your performance. Recommended for both native and non-native speakers.
Room Q #3 Pre-AP Language Skill Building
Presenter: Marcia Wilbur, Athens Academy
Focus: French, German, and Spanish
Audience: Secondary
The goal of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the types of tasks required on the AP French, German, and Spanish exams and to present instructional strategies that can be implemented beginning with first year language courses. Proficiency-building activities in the four skill areas that can benefit all students will be the focus.
2nd Floor 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Refreshment Break
Concourse
Hill Atrium And Lower Lobby 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. - Exhibits
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Pre-Conference Workshops
(You must Pre-register for these classes)
Room Y/Z #4 Theatre in the French Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Combier, North Georgia College and State University
Focus: French and Spanish
Audience: Secondary and Post Secondary
Theatre is a viable and important tool in foreign language acquisition. The presenter has been involved in all areas of live theatre for many years and applies many of the same techniques of communication that she acquired as an actress to facilitating the learning process in the foreign language classroom. There will be a discussion about three specific types of dramatic presentations that have proven successful with students in both French and Spanish for elementary and intermediate-level students and time to develop your down presentations so you can leave with a clear idea as well as a plan to implement in your classroom.
Room R #5 Bring Literature to Life
Presenter: Lee Burson, Carrollton High School
Focus: Spanish/All Languages
Audience: Secondary and Post Secondary
If your students arrive in class saying, “I read it, but I didn’t understand it,” then this workshop is for you. With simple, student-centered activities, you can motivate students to connect with what they are reading. Get them involved with the short stories, poems, and books that you read. (The Little Prince in Spanish is just one of the titles that you’ll see how your students can enjoy.) You can return to the classroom with ready-to-use ideas that make reading a pleasure instead of a pain. Examples in Spanish.
Room Q #6 National Board Certification in World Languages Other than English (WLOE)
Presenters: Vicki Welch Alvis and Linda Braun Font, State Bridge Crossing Elementary School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Elementary, Middle Grades, and Secondary
This workshop focuses on helping participants understand the National Board process in WLOE. The presenters have been involved in various aspects of National Board Certification: candidacy, scoring and certifying. Participants will be actively engaged in taking a close look at the steps toward certification: standards that teachers must document meeting, following portfolio instructions and assessment center exercises. Information will be provided about financial aid possibilities for the application fee, where to find information, and where and when to apply. Handouts will be provided.
Hill Atrium 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. – Refreshment Break
4:15 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. - Interest Session A
Room J/S Seize the Moment!!! Carpe Diem is for Modern Language Teachers, too!!
Presenter: Clarissa D. Adams
Focus: Spanish
Audience: Secondary
Tired of teaching the same way? This presentation will show you how to incorporate modern culture and engage your students while covering the grammatical concepts in you curriculum. Examples are in Spanish but useful for all modern languages.
Room T/U Middle School Foreign
Language: Making the Connection with Connections
Presenter: Melissa Blankenship, Warner Robins Middle School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Middle Grades
Keep your middle school students engaged while teaching the five C’s of the National Standards in a nine weeks connection class. This presentation will also include strategies for using the language for instruction as well as alternative assessments. Applicable for all languages.
Room Y/Z Activities to Get Them Up and Learning
Presenter: Jennifer Bonn, Rabun Gap Nacoochee School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Middle Grades and Secondary
This session will include activities that can be used in any language classroom. The activities are designed to get students actively involved in learning the language through kinesthetic activities. Handouts will be provided.
Room E/F Lesson Plan Soup for the Foreign Language Soul
Presenter: Dot Kemptner and Valerie White, Northview High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
Well there’s a soup for all the other souls, why not this one? J Favorite plans encompassing the 5 C’s of the National Foreign Language Learning Standards: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities, including rubrics. Popular among students and teachers alike are activities such as a brown paper bag oral presentation, a time capsule which tells a history, “Inspiration” software and teaching grammar, singing to word order and videotaping, students teaching to elementary school, learning stations involving the components of reading, writing, listening and speaking, painting as part of a listening comprehension activity and more!
Room C Oral and Written Proficiency in Advanced Classes
Presenters: Dr. Georgia Naderi and Kathryn Marker, Wheeler High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: AP Students
Integrating advanced vocabulary and structures or sustaining communication remain elusive skills for many AP students. What courses, units, and daily lessons will an elicit sophisticated student output? Session leaders will share classroom-tested rubrics, games, and engaging student-centered activities designed to promote the acquisition of facility and circumlocution for the AP foreign language tests containing an oral and written proficiency component.
Room V/W “Wow 'Em With Your Web Page"
Presenter: Crystal Brock, Athens Academy
Focus: All Languages
Audience: ALL (Primarily FLES, but everyone is invited)
The presentation will outline ideas for using web pages for lower school. Teachers will learn the basics on how to create their own web page and how to use their web page as a tool for communication, information and reinforcement.
Room D A New Degree for FL
Students at MSC and a Sample Senior Project: Hispanics in Georgia
Presenters: Dr. Lynne B. Bryan, Dr. David de Posada, and Mrs. Debra Dent, Macon State College
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Secondary and Post-Secondary
Foreign Language Faculty and a recent graduate of the new Communication and Information Technology degree at Macon State College give an overview of this program, a model of the successful union of disciplines in Liberal Arts and Information Technology. Discussion follows the presentation of a Senior Project: “Hispanics in Georgia”.
5:15 p.m. – 6:05 p.m. - Interest Session B
Room C “Di Immortales-Incorporating Roman Mythology Into Your Curriculum”
Presenter: Keith Toda, Brookwood High School
Focus: Latin
Audience: Secondary
Learn how to incorporate Roman mythology into your curriculum by going beyond the basics. See how you can get students both to understand and to apply their knowledge of mythology to the “real world”. This session will include a discussion of how one can use Disney’s Hercules in the classroom.
Room J/S How Can You Incorporate Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom?
Presenters: Carmen Samanes, Tri-Cities High School,
and Maria Luisa Escribano, Frederick Douglas High School
Focus: Spanish (Presentation in Spanish)
Audience: Secondary and Post Secondary
Participants will learn how to teach a foreign language through the use of technology. This session will help teachers to become familiar with the different types of resources available and give them many practical ideas that they can take back to the classroom. Students will improve their performance and they will be actively involved in the learning process.
Room T/U Keys to Middle School Success
Presenter: Corinne Barnes, Douglas County Schools,
and Kerry Carter, Chapel Hill Middle School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Middle Grades
This is a pragmatic session that will provide teachers with hands-on strategies for developing and teaching an articulated, proficiency based skill-building Middle School Foreign Language Program. Teachers will leave with both ideas and activities to facilitate success in putting the program together, most effective classroom management, providing communicative instruction, and garnering and maintaining school and community support.
Room Y/Z Unite With Fred
Presenter: Kelley J. Jordan-Monne, Sara Smith Elementary School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
Learn about Dr. Fred Jones’ Tools for Teaching program. In an overview video, Dr. Jones discusses his approach to dealing with the classroom problems of discipline, instruction, and motivation. The presenter will share personal experiences about how this program can make teaching fun again. Session will end with a preferred activity time game demonstration.
Room D “One-Stop Shopping for Online Resources: MERLOT”
Presenter: Horst Kurz, Georgia Southern University
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
The WWW can be a rich resource for language classes, so much so that looking for suitable sites can become a time-consuming and frustrating undertaking. The presentation will introduce MERLOT, a project that attempts to list – and critically review – the best materials in one place.
Room V/W Options for Successful Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Dr. Teresa Carrera-Hanley, McDougal-Littell
Focus: French & Spanish
Audience: All Levels
This workshop will show teachers a variety of options to accomplish today’s curriculum goals. The presenter will demonstrate activities that connect students with language and culture and opportunities for learning languages using technology. A lively and interactive class can communicate accurately in the target language.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Lower Lobby 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Registration continues
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Hill Atrium 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. FLAG Breakfast Reception Co-Sponsored by Prentice Hall |
Hill Atrium And Lower Lobby - 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. - Exhibits
Room K/L 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - SDU Class (continued)
8:45 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. - Interest Session C
Room R "Retro" Ideas for the "Modern" Language Classroom
Presenter: Deborah Marker, Osborne High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
Do you remember using felt boards and puppets from your elementary school days? How about "Colorforms"? Do you remember games such as "Password" and the old favorite "Jeopardy"? This workshop session will focus on using "retro" materials and ideas for enhancing student learning and your teaching in the "modern" language classroom.
Room V/W Thematic Culture Units: Abrir Paso and Parcours
Presenter: Eva Neisser Echenberg, Miraflores
Focus: French and Spanish
Audience: Middle Grades, Secondary, and Supervisors
Thematic culture units! Miraflores publishes Georgia approved units for middle and high school Spanish and French in both copymaster and workbook format. With a large selection of units on art, tourism, indigenous cultures, history, ecology, science and more, we give teachers the tools to make their classes both interdisciplinary and content rich.
Room C Of Messiness, Media
Smarts, and More: German Children’s Picture Books and Their Cultural Agenda
Presenter: Inge DiBella, University of Georgia
Focus: German
Audience: Secondary and Post-Secondary
Children’s picture books offer a unique and effective way to teach culture and language simultaneously. This presentation focuses on a selection of popular contemporary German children’s picture books, which highlight typical German values. Teaching strategies will be discussed.
Room D A Graphic Organizer for Latin
Presenter: Paige A. Welch, East Paulding High School
Focus: Latin
Audience: All Levels
So many endings, and so much to remember!! How can we help our students organize their grammar? Come see how to create a color-coded graphic organizer for noun declensions, verb conjugations along with several other grammatical necessities. This tool will benefit students at any level.
Room T/U Putting It All Together In The High School Foreign Language Class
Presenters: Corinne Barnes, Douglas County Schools, and Sara Leikin, Alexander High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Secondary
Students learn differently. In every class there is a wide range of ability. We want students to be able to understand, speak, read and write, understand culture and be motivated to learn. This session will provide practical, real classroom strategies and activities drawing from varied methods and the presenter’s 32 years experience in the classroom.
Room E/F TeLL me More Education, New Version 7, Language Learning Software
Presenter: Sylvia Pelayo or Lisa Zarate, Auralog
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
TeLL me More Education responds to the educational demand for a more thorough, comprehensive approach to language learning, while applying the latest in multimedia resources. It is available in, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. This award-winning software, based on the latest innovation of speech recognition, has been adopted in thousands of Academic Institutions worldwide.
This new version specially designed for Academic Institutions, launched early 2004, includes more cultural elements as well as predefined learning paths to support the teacher's work. A new "dynamic" mode also adjusts the learning program to the needs of each student, enabling them to make the most of their learning.
Hill Atrium 9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Exhibit Break/Refreshments Break
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Room Y/Z 9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Academic Alliances “WHEN ALL THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKERS GET TOGETHER: Collaborating to plan a Foreign Language Fair” |
10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. - Interest Session D
Room V/W Le Québec elections d’ avril 2003
Presenter: Dr. Jim Chesnut, North Georgia College and State University
Focus: French
Audience: All Levels
Dans les élections générales du 14 avril 2003 le Parti liberal a gagné une grande majorité de sièges dans L’Assemblée Nationale et son chef Jean Charest est devenu premier ministre du Québec. De son côté le Parti québécois aurait voulu éviter la question de la souveraineté, normalement une partie importante de son programme. Qu’est-ce que la victoire du PL signale pour le Québec et sa souveraineté? Le PQ a-t-il besoin de se réinvener?
Room D Nirgendwo in Afrika
Presenter: Jürgen Weigmann, Goethe-Institut Atlanta
Focus: German
Audience: Secondary and Post-Secondary
Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family, which flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. In this workshop you will learn how to use this award-winning movie in the German-speaking classroom. You will see parts of the movie and have the opportunity to discuss some suggestions for lesson plans. You will also learn how to use the special features of DVDs for language teaching purposes. Each participant will receive additional lesson plans for the whole movie and a DVD-copy of the movie.
Room C The Romans in Their Own Words: The Cambridge Latin Course
Presenter: Norah Lulich Jones, Cambridge University Press
Focus: Latin
Audience: Middle, Secondary, and Post-Secondary
Experience how the Cambridge Latin Course integrates language and culture for effective and motivating learning and instruction. We’ll focus on the research-based story line, which uses the vocabulary, syntax, and works of key Roman authors to teach students to read and analyze Latin within authentic and meaningful cultural settings.
Room Q Don Quijote Está en la Clase
Presenters: Marina Palomo-Fernández,
Morningside Elementary and Elena Zipico-Lamela, Arkwright Elementary
Focus: Spanish (Presentation in Spanish)
Audience: Elementary and Middle Grades
Oriented to Spanish elementary/ Middle grades teachers, this session will be focused on the introduction of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel El Quijote in the classroom. The objective is to bring to the children the best-known story of the Spanish Literature. In order to achieve a better understanding of the play, the conference will be started with the author’s biography, the time when the novel was written and a brief explanation of why this novel has become an emblematic of the Universal Literature.
Room R “You’ve Got Mail!” E-mail Journal Writing for Language Learners
Presenter: Lee Burson, Carrollton High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Secondary and Post Secondary
Want to engage students in authentic journal writing without having to manage a paper trail or cumbersome notebooks? This presentation offers suggestions for using e-mail writing as an alternative to traditional pen-and-paper writing. Discover how you can easily manage your students’ messages and make writing more meaningful and accessible for your students.
Room E/F PICASSO (Portal
Integrating Curriculum, Assessment, and Student System Operations): A One-Stop Comprehensive Website for
Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and Community Members
Presenters: Dr. Gregory Ewing, Cobb County School
System, Dr. Gregory Barfield, Kennesaw Mountain High School, and
Ms. Katherine Conner, Walton High School
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
In the fall of 2003, the Cobb County School District placed on-line its PICASSO Program which is a web based program providing an aligned comprehensive curriculum with assessment options, online access for grading, attendance, student information, and lesson plan and resource support for teachers, students, and parents. This session will focus on the development of the foreign language component of the PICASSO program: present, past, and future.
Room T/U Foreign Language Advocacy: Everybody Can Do It (And Should)
Presenter: Patty Smitherman, Communicata Language Services
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
The FLAG Advocacy Director will share ideas and resources to help participants advocate in their own communities. Attendees are asked to bring questions, suggestions, and personal success stories, if possible. Some of the session’s materials will come from the June SCOLT Advocacy Camp. There will be hand-outs and follow-up materials.
Room K/L The REALIDADES Top Ten: Ten Really Cool Reasons to Adopt REALIDADES
Presenters: Cathy Wilson, Rich Sayers, and Yvonne Cadiz, Prentice Hall
Focus: Spanish
Audience: Middle School and Secondary
Still deciding which Spanish textbook series to select? This session highlights ten really cool reasons to select REALIDADES. Not every textbook series is the same and we'll show you why. Experience our outstanding videos, quiz show CD-ROM, performance-base tasks, hands-on games, TPR stories, and much, much more! See why teachers across Georgia are voting to make Spanish REALidades for their students! Get ready for neat activities, laughter, singing, door prizes, and who knows what else?
Hill Atrium And Lower Lobby 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Exhibits Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Affiliate Meetings
Room R AATSP
Room T/U AATF
Room E/F AATG
Room D GCA
Room C Japanese
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Banquet Area - 12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.– FLAG Luncheon/Business Meeting/Awards Reception |
Hill Atrium and Lower Lobby 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. -- Exhibits
2:35 p.m. – 3:25 p.m. - Interest Session E
Room V/W I think I understand what my student wrote?
Presenter: Marcia Wilbur, Athens Academy
Focus: French, Spanish, & German
Audience: Secondary
This session will examine strategies for the development of students’ writing in the target language. Journal writing and the writing process as it pertains to L2 compositions will be included. Ideas for writing projects and publishing for enjoyment will also be presented.
Room D
“Hörverständnis durch Video”
Presenter: Horst Kurz, Georgia Southern University
Focus: German (Presentation in German)
Audience: All Levels
Videos eignen sich hervorragend für gezielte Übungen zum Erweitern von Hörverständnisfertigkeiten. Dieser Vortrag befaßt sich mit Übungstypen, die dazu besonders in Betracht kommen könnten. Dabei werden auch deren Probleme angesprochen. Ein Medienpaket pro TeilnehmerIn zum Mitnehmen.
Room C Uniformity in Latin Classrooms of Georgia
Presenter: Jaime Claymore, Westover High School
Focus: Latin
Audience: Secondary
Open forum for secondary (or all) Latin teachers to discuss various issues facing teachers in Georgia classrooms. Topics will include but are not limited to: pedagogy, pronunciation, integration of myth and history, text errors and how to cope with them, and the importance of grammar.
Room T/U Lively Learning for Middle School Students
Presenter: Marcy Rodgers, Glencoe
Focus: Spanish
Audience: Middle Grades
Are you looking for new ways to engage your Middle School Spanish students? Glencoe invites you to learn about activities designed to motivate your students and to provide them with a solid foundation. Come prepared to participate! You will leave the session with a sampling of activities and materials.
Room E/F Shifting from Sage on Stage to Guide on the Side: Student Focused Learning Centers for High School
Presenter: Clarissa D. Adams
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Secondary
Need new strategies to address the variety of learning styles in your class? Want to make your classroom more exciting and interactive? This presentation shows you how to take what you have and make it student centered, address multiple learning styles and give you a break from the normal routine.
Room Q Fighting for Our Programs: Advocacy Through GCLL
Presenters: Marcia Spielberger, Fulton County
Foreign Language Curriculum Director, Carol Saunders Semonsky, Georgia State
University, and Jana Sandarg, Augusta State University
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
The Georgia Coalition on Language Learning continues to fight to keep existing foreign language programs in place in our state and to enlarge “the vision” of its decision makers. This session describes how parents, K-12 teachers, university professors, district supervisors and business and community members came together to form the Georgia Coalition on Language Learning. Presenters will describe the actions taken in Georgia to advocate at the local and state level when foreign language study has been threatened. Attendees will see how GCLL publicized program cuts and successfully advocated to retain quality programs. The audience will be encouraged to share similar experiences and ideas and will receive an advocacy packet to help in the continued efforts to keep languages alive in Georgia.
Room Y/Z North Georgia College
& State University’s program of study at the Defense Language Institute
Presenters: Dr. Elizabeth Combier, Col. Billy Wells, and
LTC(R) Keith Antonia, North Georgia College and State University
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Secondary
NGCSU is offering a program for the undergraduate students in the cadet corps to become proficient in a foreign language and culture at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey, California. Cadets selected for this opportunity will spend up to a year studying at the DLI in order to become qualified military linguists. Returning to Dahlonega, they complete their undergraduate degree before commissioning in the US Army. Students participating in this program also study French or Spanish as a secondary language at NGCSU. This innovative and attractive opportunity is offered to those gifted students of foreign language ability that qualify. We would like to inform the FL teachers of Georgia so that they can educate their students about the opportunity.
Hill Atrium 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. - Refreshment Break
3:35 p.m. – 4:25 p.m. - Interest Session F
Room D Using Hypertexts Effectively in the Foreign Language Classroom
Presenters: Marcie McHugh and Julia Pittman, University of Georgia
Focus: German
Audience: All Levels
Hypertexts can be a useful learning tool in the foreign language classroom. The presentation focuses on various glossing techniques used in five hypertexts from different genres (fairy tale, poem, short story). Furthermore, results from two qualitative studies on students’ perceptions of working with glossed hypertexts will be included in the presentation.
Room C Veni, Vidi, Verba!
Presenters: Susan Belmonte, Blessed Trinity
Catholic Church; and Betsy Frank, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
Focus: Latin
Audience: Secondary
Do you get bored yourself when teaching vocabulary? Come learn some new ways to enliven vocabulary learning as presented by two high school Latin teachers, one veteran and one who’s working on it! There will be lots of suggestions on getting students more involved and excited about vocabulary learning. They will think they’re just having fun! Presentation is in connection with Latin Vocabulary but transferable to other languages.
Room E/F Lost in the Translation: A Two-Day Lesson on Bilingual
Dictionaries, Computer Translation and the Nature of Language for
Beginning Foreign Language Students
Presenter: Dr. David Alley, Georgia Southern University
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
Inexperienced students of foreign languages often equate learning a language with translation. Armed with a bilingual dictionary, students translate their sophisticated English thoughts into tortured German, French, or Spanish syntax. The widespread use of computer translation web sites has only compounded this problem. This presentation will share a two-day lesson that helps students recognize the limits of translation and define more clearly the nature of language.
Room Y/Z The Effects of Reading
and Listening on Second Language Acquisition: Two Research Contexts
Presenters: Sofia Tosello and Dr. Carmen Schlig, Georgia State University
Focus: All Languages
Audience: All Levels
This session explores the effects of reading on second-language acquisition and offers suggestions based on the results of the following three studies: (1) how the use of the dictionary affects the motivation of extensive reading in elementary-language classes; and (2) how reading affects grammatical accuracy in writing.
Room Q Building Strong Middle School Foreign Language Programs
Presenters: Elizabeth Webb, State Consultant for Foreign Languages,
Marcia Spielberger, Fulton County Foreign Language Curriculum Director, Corinne Barnes, Douglas County Foreign
Language, ESOL, Gifted, Fine Arts Curriculum Director
Focus: All Languages
Audience: Middle Grades
This session will be presented from both a state and local perspective giving an experiential and research base for “Building Strong Middle School Foreign Language Programs”. Presenters will share specifics as to components critical in developing, implementing, articulating and maintaining a skill-building, communicative foreign language program in Middle School.
Room K/L GRAMACTIVA: Teaching Spanish Grammar the Active Way!
Presenter: Rich Sayers, Prentice Hall
Focus: Spanish
Audience: Middle Grades and Secondary
Looking for new ways to teach Spanish grammar in a communicative classroom that gets all students involved? This interactive session promises a variety of strategies and activities that help ALL students learn grammar while building language proficiency. Participants will leave with a packet of ideas and materials that come from Prentice Hall's new REALIDADES series, including hands-on activities, video, games, graphic organizers, and more that they can use in class immediately.