October 16 th meeting agenda UIS Chinese room E214
Please note... only US teachers until 4pm and then whole group from 4-4:30
3:30 US Continue TLC discussion (Ariston for 10 minutes and discussion to follow)
4:00 All transition and Atlas work
Please bring computers
Click on the blue links.
Startalk Activities in the three modes Excellent free resource!
What is Startalk?
STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of Americans learning, speaking, and teaching critical need foreign languages by offering students (K–16) and teachers of these languages creative and engaging summer experiences that strive to exemplify best practices in language education and in language teacher development, forming an extensive community of practice that seeks continuous improvement in such criteria as outcomes-driven program design, standards-based curriculum planning, learner-centered approaches, excellence in selection and development of materials, and meaningful assessment of outcomes.
Charlala.com is a website created by Chris Hammer, a world language curriculum specialist and a grade 2-8 Spanish teacher. Charlala.com has several features but the one I'll focus on in this post is the DrawRoom with Game Mode and Conversation Mode. (Other features of the site allow the teacher to create a video in which the teacher records himself asking a question and then sets a time limit for how long the student has to answer the recorded questions, somewhat similar to what CLEAR by Michigan State University used to have.)
Read more
Say Hello to FluentKey
https://fluentkey.com/
Bring your class to life with interactive videos. Now in Spanish, French, Chinese and English.
Sketchnoting Resources for Teachers
Making learning visual-
Click for powerful ideas!
Rachel S. Smith used to get in trouble in school for Sketchnoting. Now she does it for a living, Sketchnoting during group meetings. It helps the group see what their work in a way that's not normally possible in a meeting, it lets them see the big picture together and make connections between pieces of information that come up at different times in a meeting.
Rachel makes the case that "when you use visual note-taking, you have to listen to what's being said, you have to really hear it, and you have to understand it. Because that's the only way you're going to come up with an image to connect what you're hearing with what you already know". Using Sketchnoting "creates a personal visual memory aid that they can study from later".
Starting at 6:35, Rachel tells the story of how visual note-taking worked for her niece and how it got her out of a detention. Google Earth brings you languages!
Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words and simple phrases and even singing traditional songs. Read more
Making Languages our Business
Read the full ACTFL report: For U.S. employers, the demand for foreign language skills is greater than ever before. Whether it’s in the boardroom, in the field, with customers and partners, or on social media, companies today are increasingly more likely to conduct business in a language other than English. Consequently, a command in multiple languages is a valuable asset for U.S. students and employees—not only in boosting their marketability in the workplace, but in helping them thrive in a global economy. Read more
For a short summary, look here. A new survey, released today, calls attention to the serious foreign language skills gap in the U.S. workforce. Languages Critical to US Employers
ELEVATE courses
Upcoming courses and conference presentations happening at Elevate.
- We have launched a new, credit-bearing online course! This is an incredibly low-cost (~ $5/week!) way to engage in high-quality professional development in a non-overwhelming way. It is a one-year course; we are accepting participants in the 2019-2020 cohort until Nov. 1. is delivered in biweekly modules that average only 20 minutes + alternate week resources that connect to the modules. The title is Teaching with Culturally Responsive Comprehensible Input and we have our very own title and course number with University of the Pacific; 1-4 graduate-level credits available. To register and learn more, go to elevateci.com.
- Early-bird registration is open through October 15 for our monthly job-embedded in-person professional development series Teaching with Comprehensible Input: The Why, What and How (level 1); and Teaching with Comprehensible Input: Taking Your Skills to the Next Level—Building a Culturally Responsive Classroom (level 2). You can get more information and see which level is right for you, and to register, by going to: https://www.
elevateeducationconsulting. com/educator-training-1/ ( Graduate-level credits available) - We are excited to be presenting at TCI Maine later this month. We’ve been asked to share TWO presentations in plenary sessions: Building Diversity-Positive Characters in TPRS Stories and Creating a Cultural Treasure Trove: Teaching Culture without Stereotyping.
- We’ll be at ACTFL this year! Stop by the CI Posse exhibit table at ACTFL to see us (we’ll be doing small presentations there on Friday afternoon & Saturday morning on Teaching with Culturally Responsive CI and Small Change, Big Impact: The Power of Adjectives. We’ll also be doing an official ACTFL presentation Sunday morning at 8 am on Making Authentic Resources Comprehensible in the Early Levels.
We are looking forward to providing you solid, sustained support this year as you continue on your culturally responsive CI journey.
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