Best, Most Powerful Strategies for Teaching WORLD LANGUAGES (Grades 6-12)

Details

Who it's for

Subjects

Topics

About this event

This outstanding seminar by nationally known world language teacher Bryce Hedstrom has been specifically designed to help you more effectively teach for proficiency and achieve the goal of using the target language 90%+ of the time. Bryce will provide dozens of practical ideas for strengthening your world language instruction to increase students' success in the target language. You'll learn practical tips, activities, assignments, and strategies to more successfully engage all students, including beginners, in the target language.

Bryce will present, model and provide opportunities to practice activities and techniques during the seminar. Explore ways to integrate students' personal identities into the fabric of your class and make each student feel like the most important one in the room. Discover questioning and follow-up questioning strategies that will engage all students and help them get to know, like, and respect each other better – all in the target language!

Some teachers seem to be born to teach. I was not one of those people. I always longed to be an effective teacher, but for years I honestly was not as effective as I wanted to be. With the help of colleagues and seminars like this one, I learned techniques that worked. Later, I developed many additional strategies of my own. I've designed this seminar to increase your learning curve and increase your teaching options by sharing the best of what I've found really works.

The focus of our day will be on practical strategies and techniques that will enhance your teaching for proficiency and boost your students' language acquisition in equitable, engaging and effective ways. This is not theory for me – I use each of these methods in my classes daily. The techniques I will share with you are grounded in current best practices of world language instruction, the latest brain research and years of practical application. You will get the kind of insight and advice that only an experienced teacher can provide.

This seminar will include practical ideas that will help you enhance your delivery of compelling, comprehensible input to your students on a sustainable basis. Classroom management, reading strategies and personalization are especially areas I have been able to help teachers the most, and I will share my very best ideas with you.

I am confident that you will leave this seminar energized and eager to add many new, practical ideas to your own teaching repertoire. You'll leave with many additional strategies for creating a proficiency-focused, humane, inclusive learning environment where all students want to attend your class and feel motivated to learn the language.

I look forward to spending the day with you!

P.S. The emphasis will be on practical strategies that you can start using the very next day in your own classroom.

Extensive World Language Digital Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive world language digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas This seminar provides participants a great opportunity to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their world language program.

Consultation Available Bryce Hedstrom will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own world language program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Highly effective strategies to more fully engage your students and increase their motivation in your world language instruction
• Powerful methods to achieve ACTFL's goal of at least 90% target language use that will work for you
• Timesaving tips to better differentiate your world language instruction and help your students attain higher levels of proficiency
• Proven, easy-to-implement techniques to create an inclusive language learning environment and reach all students