Conferences and Trainings
I find teaching to be an adventure and am constantly looking for ways to improve upon my skills and to challenge others to do the same!
Are you or your district interested in learning more about teaching with comprehensible input? I can come to you and can plan workshops to meet the needs of your department / district.
Are you or your district interested in learning more about teaching with comprehensible input? I can come to you and can plan workshops to meet the needs of your department / district.
Upcoming Conferences or trainingsApril 20-23, 2023 VIRTUAL
MASH: The perfect way to create story in a game format Free registration All Access Pass Launchpad With Resources AATSP - Salamanca, Spain Voice and Choice: The keys to balance connection and community in your classroom July 10-14, 2023 Savannah, Georgia Daily Check-ins - Connecting and setting the tone Making Story Asking Work Special person the Ultimate PBL The first days of school: Setting up for success (Co-Presenting with Kristin Archambault) July 18-20, 2023 St. Petersburg, FL Teaching novice level Spanish language lab PREVIOUS ONLINE TRAININGS : |
Previous Conference or TrainingsOctober 20, 2022
September 7, 2022 RIFLA First days of school July 19-21, 2022 Practical and Comprehensible 2022 July 11-15, 2022 IFLT 2022
July 5-9, 2022 Conference in the cloud 2022 I will be teaching an in-person language lab from my classroom with level one high school students, as well as presenting about a couple topics. February 12, 2022-May 15, 2022 Comprehended! A CI Teacher's Journey in a Textbook/Grammar Department March 4, 2022 - North Thurston Public Schools, Lacey, Washington - Interactive reading strategies October 2021 - MAFLA -
August 31, 2001 - North Thurston Public Schools, Lacey, Washington - Teaching with CI July 5-9, 2021 - Conference in the Cloud - Leading the intermediate level language lab and presenting several workshops. Learn Together Academy: September 2020 - June 2021 Monthly training on a variety of pertinent topics to world language teachers. CSCTFL 2021 Convention: 3/12/21 Special Person: The Ultimate PBL PROFEdeELE Semana Práctica 2/15/21-2/21/21 - El uso de descansos de cerebro para capar a los estudiantes. NTPRS 2019 Chicago, IL Advanced track presenter - presenting on techniques for re-telling stories. Franklin School District, Franklin, MA 2018 - Presenting on storytelling, story asking and class created characters. French River Educational Center, INC 2018 - Graduate Class "Survival Spanish for School Administrators, Teachers and Support Staff" NTPRS 2018 Boston, MA - Presenting on games in the CI classroom. Express Fluency 2017 - Presenting on games in the CI classroom Dudley Charlton Region School District 2017 - Presenting on Using Technology to engage students. Dudley Charlton Regional School District 2016 - Presenting on teaching with comprehensible Input - Live demo class. FLAND Summer Conference 2019 July 29-August 1 Presenting on: Card Talk- In our classrooms, we want to plug in and connect with our kids right from the beginning of the year. Card talk is an activity that can be easily incorporated in the classroom starting on day one to begin conversations and lay the foundation of building a classroom community that will exist in your classroom for the entire year. This is an activity that has applications in all levels and for all ages of language instruction. Come and learn how to use this simple, no prep activity to start conversations about what is most important to our students…anything about themselves and their lives. The connections that students are able to make with you as their teacher and other students will pay off continually as the year goes on. Games and activities for low/med/high output - Having a bag of tricks with strategies to use for most scenarios can be a lifesaving tool for a teacher! In this session we will explore a variety of games and activities that range from short brain breaks (requiring no output from students) to games that could last a whole class period (requiring student driven output). These are games and activities that could be used in any level classroom and will all be very low/no prep required. Come ready to try these games and activities out and to brainstorm modifications and different uses for them that we can all share and use to make our bag of teaching tricks even bigger! Special Person - Continuing to build community in our classroom throughout the year is so important. Once we get plugged into our students, we need to stay plugged in. There are many ways to do this, but the Special Person Interview is a special experience that really celebrates each student and at the same time creates a wonderful springboard for discussion, exploration and connection within your classroom. This one activity alone will set your class apart from the rest of your students’ classes. This is the one class they can come to and share and learn about each other. They have the chance to find out what is important to everyone AND at the same time thoroughly acquire the target language. It is quite a special thing to accomplish ALL of that AND have students feeling encouraged as you just talked with them and listened to them! Mafia - (presenting with Laura Abuhl)In case you do not know about this VERY fun role-play game and its potential in the world language classroom, here is an explanation by Martina Bex, from The Comprehensible Classroom: “Mafia is a role-play comprehensible input game in which a poor town is being tormented by the evil Mafia. The police force is working tirelessly to identify the perpetrators of the heinous crimes being committed while the local doctor does everything in his or her power to save the victims of the Mafia’s unconscionable attacks. The local news reporter is the only one safe from the Mafia, and he or she bears the burden of informing the townspeople of the Mafia’s every move.” In this session, we will demonstrate how to play this game in a language class and highlight ways to tweak it for the level of your students. We will also PLAY Mafia!! Embedded Reading - Created by Laurie Clarcq and Michelle Whaley, an Embedded Reading is a collection of three or more scaffolded versions of a text designed to prepare students to comprehend texts that they perceive to be beyond their ability. The scaffolding of the different versions builds success, confidence, and interest in reading. Class Novels - Reading is such an important part of language acquisition. We all know that, but sometimes the idea of introducing it as a part of our class that teacher and students enjoy can be intimidating and overwhelming. This session will discuss and play with a variety of different options for incorporating reading into your classroom including different ways to implement Free Voluntary Reading (presented by Laura Abuhl) and different approaches to teaching a class novel. We will also discuss novels that are culturally appropriate, available and which levels they are best suited to. If you read novels or articles in your class, bring your thoughts and ideas about which novels you prefer for which levels and why! Tech to Impress: Using Bitmoji and Snapchat to spice up your class - If we are going to connect with our students, there is no better way than to meet them where they are, and they are deep into the tools of the social media world. Let’s investigate some easy ways to show our students that we can connect with them in their world through short videos, pictures, stickers, memes and more! We will be using phones for this session and will help you to set up accounts and create a Bitmoji step by step. Get ready to engage in technology creativity with scaffolding for the very beginners right up through those who feel proficient in technology. Get ready to engage your creativity! Waterbury, CT Foreign language department October 2019 Beginning CI techniques |