World Language Teacher Summit 2.0
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World Language Teacher Summit 2.0
7 Lessons
6 Lessons
Sheri’s presentation discusses strategies to increase the use of the target language by both students and teachers in the world language classroom. She shares examples of tasks that can be used with Level 1 students in the classroom and she suggests ways to modify them for virtual classes. She provides examples of tasks for each language skill as well as tips on how to conduct these activities online or in class. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Don’t feel as if your classroom needs to become more teacher-centered because you are teaching online. If anything, the reverse is true as it is more important than ever to keep students engaged. When setting up pair or group work tasks with low level learners, make sure you give clear instructions before sending students to Breakout Rooms. Elicit examples and use questions to help you check that tasks are clear. Think about having the instructions written down. As Sheri suggests, use Breakout Rooms to facilitate pair work activities which enable students to practice their speaking skills. In addition, use Google Docs to encourage students to work together during writing skills activities.
Wendy’s presentation explains what AIM is and how it works in teaching different languages worldwide. She gives details on how proficiency development works in successfully teaching learners a specific language by showing examples of activities that happen in an AIM classroom. She elaborates on how these activities are necessary in order for the students to acquire target language proficiency. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations The use of gestures / body language remains important when teaching online. Use Breakout Rooms to enable students to work in pairs and groups. In addition, use Google Docs to encourage students to collaborate on writing tasks.
Diego’s presentation shows how being creative helps in language acquisition. He motivates teachers to be creative and suggests a number of practical ways to promote creativity in the classroom. The presentation elaborates on what disruptive education is and describes how it is related to creativity. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Take advantage of the opportunity to teach online to develop your creativity in a new direction. If you are already feeling overwhelmed by technology, try something simple like Answergarden or Padlet to get you started.
Sherry shows the process of using Boom Cards in a world language classroom. Throughout the presentation, she demonstrates the different possibilities of using digital flashcards creatively by maximizing the features of the digital application. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
In her presentation Christina explains what a Socratic Seminar is and how this can help teachers in facilitating second language output. She shares key classroom management strategies to successfully conduct a Socratic Seminar in a WL classroom. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Socratic seminars can work just as well online as they can face-to-face. The key is effective classroom management. Make sure students have read the article / watched the video you assigned as homework before putting students into groups. Give clear instructions. Consider limiting the group size - perhaps 6-8 students - to maximize student participation
Nathan shares how to create and implement a successful classroom management plan in the target language based on his personal experiences. The presentation is for teachers who spend valuable classroom time dealing with behavioral issues. It demonstrates how teachers model the classroom environment they want to create through effective classroom rules. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Develop similar ‘rules’ for your online classroom. Take the stress out of online teaching by establishing and modeling classroom procedures, just as you would in a ‘real’ classroom.
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Elizabeth elaborates on the responsibilities of a world language teacher in designing culturally responsive and global citizenship education. The presentation differentiates the static definition of culture to a more fluid idea about what and how culture shapes an individual. It also covers the difference between individualist and collectivist culture and how these differences affect a teacher’s own implicit biases in teaching and how all these affect students’ learning. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Continue to listen to students and create bonding opportunities. Use Breakout Rooms to encourage student-student interaction. Think about using Padlet as a ‘low stress’ way to help students share information about themselves.
Christina’s presentation explores inquiry-based learning and how this type of learning is effective to cultivate curiosity in the WL classroom. She discusses QFT (Question Formulation Technique) in depth, including how it is related to achieving the C’s of the 21 st Century Skills. She shares examples of how to implement QFT and suggests some possible variations. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations The ‘Question Formulation Technique’ can be readily adapted to suit an online teaching situation. Encourage students to work together in Breakout Rooms and formulate their questions using Google Docs.
Jenniffer shares about ways to relate to students which teachers could incorporate in their classrooms. The presentation covers how students are similar and different and explains a detailed study on racial-ethnic identity among students. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Many of Jenniffer’s suggestions are straightforward to include in a virtual classroom. Consider using Google Forms as a quick and easy way to collect feedback from your students.
Tracy’s presentation motivates teachers to incorporate videos, blogs, articles, songs, images and all possible realia into the classroom in order to ignite the interests of students in global awareness and other important issues in society. He shares various activities that have proven to be effective throughout his career as a world language teacher. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Many of Tracy’s ideas for using audio-visual material are applicable to an online classroom. Use Breakout Rooms together with Google Docs to maximize student engagement.
In her presentation Carmen differentiates what a team and a group is. She shares actual output of students who worked in teams which could be used as model practices for teaching language. She also suggests ways in which working as a team in language learning enhances skills they could use in real-life settings. At the end of the presentation, she discusses how important reflection is in teaching and in learning. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Don’t let the fact that you’re teaching online put you off the idea of creating ‘student teams’ in the classroom. Exploit Breakout Rooms to create this opportunity. Just think carefully about the way you set up tasks and the way you give instructions before sending students to work in their teams.
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Kaitlin discusses how teachers may create confident and successful writers with novice learners of a second language. It discusses ways to keep writing going in a class. She provides specific examples of how to model writing for students, how to use graphic organizers to organize students’ thoughts before writing, and what to look into when assessing learners’ writing output. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Many teachers have a choice between using an interactive whiteboard, a Google Doc, or Word, and students can watch or contribute to a piece of writing taking shape in front of their eyes! As well as offering excellent conditions for modeling writing tasks, an online classroom makes it easy to demonstrate how to fill out a graphic organizer with your students. Increase student interaction by asking students to work together in Breakout Rooms. Teach them how to use the interactive whiteboard / a Google Doc / Word to brainstorm their ideas. Then ask them to share what they have with students in another Breakout Room - or with the whole class.
Allison’s presentation offers activities teachers could possibly use in teaching a target language using a novel. Various activities for pre-reading, reading, and post-reading sessions to be used during class or in online classes are suggested. She also provides tips to successfully teach a language using novels from preparation to assessment. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Many of Allison’s suggestions could also be included in a virtual classroom. Teach students how they can share their screens so they can read together or complete tasks in pairs and groups.
Lisa’s presentation offers a wide range of activities that could help teachers whether online or in-class. Activities for informational and narrative texts are suggested depending whether they are intended for novice or intermediate to advanced groups of learners. Each suggested activity is followed by a specific example and template that are actually used by Lisa. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations As Lisa says, the graphic organizers used throughout her presentation could be readily adapted for an online class.
In her presentation Katherine aims to demonstrate how to embed formative and strategic approach to writing into your teaching to develop student proficiency and confidence. She answers and explains ways to counter the many challenges of writing. She discusses how and when to scaffold as well as how to get students create their writing portfolio in different levels. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Teach students how to use Google Docs for their writing assignments so that marking is quicker and easier. Encourage the use of e-portfolios, so that the ‘regular and visible evidence’ of the progress students are making is not lost online.
Hélène’s presentation explains the importance of using stories in teaching a language. She demonstrates how to use ‘Story-gami’ in teaching and suggests activities that could be done for assessment. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Story-gami adapts well to the online classroom. Use Breakout Rooms so that students can re-tell the story or create their own. Teach students how to use the interactive whiteboard / Google Docs / Word so that they can write the story in pairs or groups. Students could also draw the story on paper and hold their stories up to the camera - or, if you are feeling more adventurous, you could experiment with the ‘DrawStory’ feature of Charlala.
Fadi's presentation showcases the use of fun games and stimulating brain breaks to bring language to life. He shares a plethora of activities and games used by other teachers which can be adapted for both in-classroom and distance learning settings. To further help teachers, he also provides bonus downloads that include useful resources.
Bertha shares ways to create and develop a successful language program. She shares 3 steps with detailed explanations on how these are effective. These steps begin with forming a team, building relationships with those that are involved with your members, and creating an online presence to connect with everyone. Towards the end, she provides recommendations on how to maintain the success of your language program. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Don’t forget to draw students’ attention towards the information you would normally have on your Bulletin Board. Bertha’s idea for using Flipgrid presentations would work well online. Adapt the collaborative poster task by teaching students how to use screen share with Google docs.
Jenelle explores the advantages of utilizing digital web applications in teaching to increase student engagement significantly. She provides an overview of how some web applications (Socratic, Wizer, PearDeck, and Google Forms) are used. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
Beckie discusses how to use rubrics in assessing/grading output or performance. She discusses each type of rubric, its pros & cons, and provides tips on which rubric is best suited to specific tasks. Teachers also learn how to adjust/modify existing rubrics to match activities in their essons and create their own rubrics to match the assessment needed for their learners. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Rubrics need to be made clear to students regardless of the teaching situation. Focus on making rubrics easy to understand and quick to complete.
Megan reviews the importance of including jobs and careers in each unit that is covered in the WL class. She shares 4 ideas on how this could be done without causing much stress even if the general topic of the unit is not about jobs and careers. She also gives concrete examples of how these ideas could be put into practice in the classroom. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Students could complete online research into different jobs and then share their findings in Breakout Rooms. With efficient classroom management skills, Pecha Kucha could be adapted for the online classroom.
Tanya’s presentation talks about the challenges and limitations a WL teacher faces at school and in the community. She suggests ways to overcome these and encourage more people from the community to support WL education. She elaborates on how teachers have the power to control their curriculum, instruction, and assessment & outcomes, and how to advocate their programs to the community. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Use Padlet to make and share content about what goes on in your classes.
Adriana’s presentation demonstrates how to create a website using Wix. She shares her resources and the links to educational resources she made. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
Claudia discusses the connection between output and a strong community in a WL class, the role of output in language acquisition, and strategies to support output and build a strong community. With each strategy, she shares activities which are effective in attaining the goal of having a supportive community in order for students to produce output to communicate a message. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Using Breakout Rooms and an interactive whiteboard, Google Docs or Word would make it straightforward to adapt many of Claudia’s ideas for teaching online. Experiment with using Answergarden, Padlet and Google Forms to collect information about your students’ interests.
Beckie’s presentation aims to help teachers adopt a simple but effective approach to designing and adapting unit and year-long templates to organize learn - practice - assess - reflect cycles. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations The year-long approach Beckie discusses is also applicable to online teaching.
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Rebecca’s presentation shares how to integrate student created content in the classroom. She suggests 4 steps to do this and, in each step, she provides an example of how she does it with each different level of learners. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Rebecca includes some helpful suggestions for online application within her presentation. Use of Breakout Rooms would be a useful addition so that students can participate in projects and presentations online.
Rachel’s presentation shares ways to engage students and integrate technology with comprehensible input in the WL classroom. It focuses on how to get 100% student engagement, how to do ‘story asking,’ and use the ‘DrawStory’ feature of Charlala to flip your classroom. She demonstrates how to navigate the website and models how students could get creative when using this platform. Click here to get free special access to Charlala Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
The presentation focuses on how to use Choice Board effectively. He provides tips and resources to help students rise in proficiency and communicate with confidence. Throughout the presentation, he provides samples of templates along with suggestions for how to utilize them so that students have a choice about the way they approach their language learning. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
Shelley’s presentation is about creating a culture of learners or what is usually referred to as classroom management. She talks about the steps involved in building relationships, how to build a community, how to create structure, and how to facilitate engaging learning. She suggests strategies and activities to shift the teacher’s position to that of a facilitator. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations ‘Creating a Culture of Learners’ or ‘Classroom Management’ is perhaps even more important when you are in an online teaching situation. Teach your students what is expected of them in an online classroom. Just as in a face-to-face teaching situation, don’t assume that they know how to work in Breakout Rooms or collaborate on a Google Document.
Dave’s presentation gives an overview of the 5 key beliefs for student motivation and suggests ways to maximize this motivation in the world language classroom. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Create moments of ‘genuine connection,’ perhaps by chatting to some of your students before the class begins. This may be even more important when you are teaching online. Even though teaching online is still relatively new to many teachers, it’s important to remember that ‘Credibility’ is one of the key beliefs for Student Motivation. It’s not necessary to incorporate a lot of different types of technology into your teaching. Focus on getting the basics right so that your lessons run smoothly.
Richard’s presentation is about how to use music and magic as tools to enhance proficiency in either a physical classroom or online. He discusses the importance of using music and magic, how to incorporate them, and he shares examples of how this looks in the world language classroom. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations In his presentation, Richard includes ideas for using music and magic in online classes. If you are interested in incorporating magic tricks into your teaching, perhaps use a video recording the first time you do it - to help take the pressure off..!
Larissa’s presentation talks about Google Slides and how much it could help teachers to be creative with their students. She shares ideas on how to have fun and be creative with Super Slides. With each idea, she shares examples of what she has done with her class and some of her students’ output, too. She shares a lot of resources that could help teachers get started in maximizing the functions offered by Google Slides. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
Katherine’s presentation is about how to create interactive Google Slides that engage students in mastering the target language. She demonstrates how to create slides and how to set it up, so the format does not change when the students receive the slides. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Online application is discussed within the presentation.
Bertha shares practices and tips about sustaining a proficiency mindset among students throughout the school year. She discusses how maximizing classroom spaces helps. She also talks about activities that could be done from the 1 st week and how to use the suggested bulletin board posts in each activity to maintain a proficiency mindset. There are examples of these activities throughout the presentation. Suggested Online Teaching Adaptations Bertha emphasizes the importance of establishing an ‘online presence.’ Continue to build the relationships that Bertha suggests through the use of online platforms and tools.