FLAG ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Pre-Conference Workshops & PLU (SDU) Classes
| PLU (SDU) Classes and Workshops require pre-registration and additional payment! |
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PLU (SDU) CLASS 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - PLU Orientation (Must pre-register and Attendance Required for PLU Credit) |
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| "Build Your Own PLU" Workshop By attending required sessions, and adding select others, you will create a PLU course that truly supports the specific learning needs of your students" |
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| Presenter(s): | Jon Valentine, Georgia Department of Education |
| Focus: | All Language |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| The new format of this year's PLU course will offer participants the opportunity to take advantage of the unprecedented range of sessions being offered at this FLAG conference in conjunction with assigned workshops, an orientation and wrap-up session. Participants will attend orientation on Friday morning at 7:30 a.m. to discuss the current state of proficiency-based instruction in Georgia, and to coordinate sessions that will allow them to tailor their session and workshop choices to meet their own program needs. On Saturday afternoon, participants will be required to meet again to discuss how they plan to integrate what they have learned into their own classroom teaching in order to build more seamless and articulated programs of study. Participants must attend a minimum of 10 hours worth of workshops, sessions, and the keynote address as well as have each session/workshop/keynote address authenticated in order to receive their PLU for the conference. Attendance at the Friday morning and Saturday afternoon session is required. | |
WORKSHOPS - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
| #1: "Performing the Unspeakable: Using Theatrical Techniques to Explore Sensitive Topics" | |
| Presenter(s): | Jennifer Wooten, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bridgette Gunnels, Agnes Scott College and Amanda Restivo, Alcovy High School |
| Focus: | Spanish |
| Audience: | Secondary and Post Secondary |
| In this interactive forum, presenters will share experiences using theatrical techniques with their high school and university students to critically explore topics like race, poverty, and marginalization as related to target cultures and students' experiences. Attendees will discuss and potentially perform topics relevant to their own contexts. | |
| #2: "A Make & Take Adventure!" | |
| Presenter(s): | Joe Frank Uriz, Parsons Elementary |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | Elementary and Middle Grades |
| Elementary & Middle school foreign language teachers team up to take participants on a thematic make & take adventure. BEST classroom activities that have proven to be meaningful and successful in their classrooms will be shared. Each teacher will model an activity at one of eight Make and Take stations. Workshop participants will rotate among the stations, where they will have a chance to make materials to be used in activities that reflect GA GPS objectives for foreign language, and they will be able to take these materials back to their classrooms. | |
| #3: "The Joy of Writing and Singing your own Songs, a Workshop!" | |
| Presenter(s): | Greg Sanchez, North Springs Charter High School |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| Need another tool to engage Musical and Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligences? Using software given at the session, participants can write and perform original songs that suit their curricular needs. Every person will leave with a finished song, ready to use in one's own classroom, in the target language! Bring a laptop!! | |
| #4: "Connecting Students to the World and Each Other through Pair and Small Groups" | |
| Presenter(s): | Vicki Alvis & Elizabeth Ferree, Autrey Mill Middle School |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | Middle Grades, Novice Level Learners |
| Meet your students' overwhelming need to socialize while increasing their daily language production through a variety of interactive tasks. Presenters will demonstrate and share resources for cooperative learning and info gap activities, grouping students, strategies for keeping students in the target language as well as rubrics and other tools for holding students accountable for active participation. | |
| #5: "The Magic of GoAnimate: Creating Web-based Role Plays in your Foreign Language Classes" | |
| Presenter(s): | Dr. Peter A. Schultz, Kennesaw State University |
| Focus: | All languages (examples in German) |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| Are you trying to find an innovative way to improve speaking performance and create engagement? Bring your laptop and learn how to use the Web 2.0 tool GoAnimate and show your students to produce the target language and create animations that support interpersonal and presentational communication. Session will be limited to fifteen participant. | |
Friday, 12:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
| #6: "COME ON DOWN!: Games & Game Shows in the World Language Classroom" | |
| Presenter(s): | Holly Brodnax & Laura Droms, Grayson High School |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| Are you tired of the same old games and review activities? Well…come on down! In this hands-on workshop, participants will experience multiple games as a "student". In the second part of the workshop, small groups will create games to take back to the classroom. Attendees are invited to bring a laptop with Microsoft Word applications. | |
| #7: "Be(coming) a Digital Citizen: Professional Learning for a New Age" | |
| Presenter(s): | Lynn Fulton-Archer, Rock Hill Schools |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| Professional development is no longer limited to a specific date and time. Today's educators are discovering how to create personal and professional learning networks (PLNs) that enable them to collaborate with others, find just-in-time support, and gather ideas from colleagues around the globe. This workshop will highlight strategies for building a PLN. If possible, bring your wireless internet-enabled laptop to begin building your own professional learning network and be(come) a digital citizen. Attendee is responsible for acquiring his or her own internet access. Internet access will be provided in the meeting room. Session will be limited to fifteen participants. | |
| #8: "Get Them Reading! Easy to Implement Reading Strategies" | |
| Presenter(s): | David Jahner, Gwinnett County Public Schools |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | Secondary |
| This hands-on workshop will provide participants the opportunity to learn and practice a variety of reading strategies for the language classroom. Strategies are applicable to all languages and levels. Participants will work with a variety of texts, including fiction and non-fiction, as well as determine how to apply the same reading to a variety of classes. | |
| #9: "Don't Get Lost!: How to Successfully Navigate Teaching & Learning Using the GPS" Performance Based Activities and Assessments based on the Georgia Performance Standards Thematic Units" | |
| Presenter(s): | Marie Bruner, Harrison High School |
| Focus: | French and Spanish |
| Audience: | Middle Grades and Secondary |
| A workshop filled with lots of ideas for formative and summative assessments that access the Georgia Performance Standards as well as build thematic units. The presenter has a blog with links to resources; also present on the blog are .pdf files that explain the activities that will be shared. Rather than simply discussing what can be done, participants will participate in activities in order to generate questions in how to adapt them for their own classroom needs. There will be plenty of interaction and time for Q&A. A discussion of backwards planning and what assessment should look like when it is "performance-based" will be a focus of this workshop. | |
| CANCELLED! |
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| Presenter(s): | Catherine Fortin, Foreign Language House |
| Focus: | All Languages |
| Audience: | All Levels |
| FLES is not just for young learners. Take away practical activities, games, materials, and methods from FLES. Using immersion techniques, the ACTFL standards, and communicative activities will be emphasized. Learn how to adapt and bring FLES into the secondary classroom or add to your FLES repertoire. FLES methods for presenting, practicing, and using the target language benefit all so come and join our FLES for All! | |
| All paperwork required for recertification, professional credits, PLUs, etc. is the sole responsibility of the conference participant. FLAG assumes no liability with regard to credits for conference attendance. |
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