Thursday Full-Day
1:00PM-5:00PM
W-01 TPRS Storytelling 101: Learning the Basics
Presenter(s): Gary Di Bianca and Lara Melesky — Andrews Osborne Academy
Description: With the goal of natural language acquisition, TPRS Storytelling takes language learning to another level. In the TPRS classroom, we are Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling and keeping students engaged in the target language while they learn grammatically correct, natural language. In this session, we will present the fundamental steps for using this method, highlight how to incorporate the 5 C’s, and explain why TPRS is brain-friendly all while participants experience the power of learning another language through comprehensible input.
Audience: Classroom Teachers, Teacher Trainers; All Levels
Examples: English
Thursday Full-Day
3:00PM-8:00PM
W-02 Unlocking Your SmartBoard’s Potential
Presenter(s): Darla Morris and Nate Maier — Bexley City Schools
Description: Your SMARTBoard interactive whiteboard is much more than an overhead projector. Learn how to integrate the applications of the SMARTBoard Notebook software with world language curriculum. Utilize your textbook materials, the gallery functions, and online resources to create an interactive classroom. Focus on increasing student engagement, using classroom management tools, developing well-paced lessons, and enriching content through the use of your interactive whiteboard. Walk away with actual classroom ideas and adaptable resources to use tomorrow.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: French, Spanish
W-03 Authentic Materials in the Arabic Classroom
Presenter(s): Sanaa Jouejati — Northwest Ohio Arabic Language Institute (NOALI)
Description: Arabic teachers will come out of this workshop with a wealth of ideas and a solid realization that there is more teaching tools than expected that are authentic, available, and adaptable for their Arabic classroom. The main ideas will be presented in a ppt., and attendees will be divided into action subgroups with a guide to practice adapting the suggested and displayed authentic material into their class level. All product ideas will be shared.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: Arabic
W-04 Lessons in Children’s Literature: A Multi-Age Application of Literature to the Spanish Curriculum
Presenter(s): Rachelle Zuniga, Valerie Clifford, Denise Troha, and Kathryn Redfern — Cleveland State University
Description: This panel will demonstrate through the use of Aztec myths, Mexican legends, and youth theater, lessons for the Spanish Curriculum. We seek to incorporate multiple departmental statewide standards applicable to modern Latin America, for a holistic approach to Spanish. This panel will contextualize the language to provide teachers with new and atypical activities to incorporate in the classroom for students of multiple intelligences. All presentations will address all five national Modern Language teaching standards.
Audience: Classroom Teachers; All Levels
Examples: English, Spanish
W-05 The Use of Games in Foreign Language Teaching
Presenter(s): Marion Ulrike Greiner — Bowling Green State University
Description: Games can be an invaluable means to facilitate foreign language learning. They are motivating, amusing and promote cooperation among students while making students understand, produce and manipulate the target language. In the workshop I will provide and demonstrate the instructions and reusable materials for a variety of games, which can be used to teach grammar, vocab, etc.
Audience: Classroom Teachers; Junior and/or Middle
School, High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: French, German, ESL
Thursday Half-Day
1:00PM-3:00PM
W-06 Paper Plates, Puppets & Pizzazz: Brain-Friendly Activities for the Beginning Language Learner
Presenter(s): Kathy Lewton — Wadsworth Middle School
Description: Unlock the power of the student brain! In this lively, interactive workshop, you will be immersed in classroom-tested, brain-friendly activities and strategies designed to engage student brains. Hear what students have to say about learning in a brain-compatible environment. Discover how easily you can incorporate these brain-based ideas in your classroom. Come prepared for a joyful fluency experience. May also appeal to Level 1 high school teachers. (Sequel to Best of Ohio 2001 session)
Audience: Classroom Teachers; Elementary, Junior and/or Middle School
Examples: English, French
Thursday Half-Day
3:00PM-5:00PM
W-07 Assessing Writing: Alleviating the Teacher’s Burden When Classes are Filled to the Brim
Presenter(s): Erica O’Keefe and Drew Rock — Olentangy Local Schools
Description: Assessing writing seems to be a daunting and cumbersome task for teachers, thus writing occurs less frequently in the foreign language classroom. This workshop will focus on various types of integrated writing tasks along with techniques for increasing overall student proficiency. Peer and self-assessment strategies will be emphasized. Samples from levels I-V/AP will be presented along with applications across languages.
Audience: All; Junior and/or Middle School, High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: English, French, German, Spanish
W-08 From “Somewhere in Berlin” to “Nowhere in Africa” and Beyond: Approaching the Aftermath of the Nazi Horror in and through German Language Films from 1946 to the Present
Presenter(s): Beate T. Engel-Doyle — Franciscan University of Steubenville
Description: Do your students like movies? Have they learned about the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust in their history or culture survey classes? Are they curious how Germans since 1945 have been dealing with the darkest twelve years in their history? Then you might want to attract students to your program by offering a course that studies how key German films produced between 1946 and now (critically) reflect on such issues as the Nazi past, the war, the Holocaust and their various aftereffects, as well as the question of resistance, survival, and guilt. This workshop-type presentation will not only supply you with a descriptive list of films and resources pertaining to them, but you will leave with a sample course design and concrete suggestions in form of a checklist for developing a course that fits your specific institutional situation and needs.
Audience: All; High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: German
W-09 The Block Schedule Can Be a Beautiful Thing
Presenter(s): Ellen Hogue — The Metro School
Description: This workshop will explore how extended time can foster and improve relationships and student success. The block schedule can increase our opportunities to implement intervention, formative assessment and differentiation which then guides thoughtful selection of strategies that will enhance and deepen learning. Extended time also offers the opportunity to help students become more responsible for their own learning. The goal of this workshop is to help educators start building their own varied repertoire of successful strategies. Additionally, participants will actively learn how to enhance and select strategies in response to target learning goals and the different learners in their classrooms.
Audience: Classroom Teachers; All Levels
Examples: English, Spanish
W-10 Spark Enthusiasm Presents: Best Practices for Spanish Class
Presenter(s): Amy Haney — Kettering Fairmont High School;
Kathleen Acosta — Carroll High School; and Kathleen Ashleigh Ten Eyck — Wright State University
Description: Presenters will share creative ideas for teaching students to communicate in Spanish. Tips for incorporating music, culture, and technology in your classroom with be shared during this interactive and fun workshop for teachers of all levels.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: Spanish
Thursday Half-Day
6:30PM-8:30PM
W-11 Teaching Latino Cultures Made Easy
Presenter(s): Jose L. Varela-Ibarra — Eastern Kentucky University
Description: Participants will experience an approach, method, and techniques used successfully over the past seven years with students in a Latino cultures course. Following Hall's culture categories, content is blended with critical thinking activities that give students insight into the other culture and their own. Online and other media resources will be made available. Come ready to learn and have fun.
Audience: Classroom Teacher, Teacher Trainer; Junior and/or Middle School, High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: English
W-12 Creative Strategies for AP Spanish Language Teachers: Reaching for the Stars
Presenter(s): Parthena Draggett — Jackson High School
Description: The objectives of this workshop are to focus in on each section of the AP Spanish exam and to identify the skills needed to help our students achieve passing scores. The AP Spanish exam is challenging, but reflects the real life skills all students need in Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational communication. The workshop will include a PowerPoint presentation, many handouts for successful procedures and activities, discussion of vertical teaming strategies to begin AP activities at earlier levels of Spanish, and sharing best practices. Especially helpful will be examination of juried scores of free response examples from the 2009 exam with practice in use of the rubrics. We will discuss ways to propel our students forward to raise the bar and connect with Spanish outside the classroom, helping them to improve throughout the year.
Audience: All; High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: Spanish
W-13 French Language and Culture through Film
Presenter(s): Richard Emch — North Royalton High School
Description: This session will present ideas to fully integrate the study of French language and culture with the study of French feature films. The films vary in content and genre and are selected based on the students’ level of French studies. The goal is to incorporate vocabulary and grammatical structures to study and discuss films and their cultural content in order to build linguistic proficiency in a meaningful context while the students enjoy their language experience.
Audience: All; High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: French
Friday Half-Day
8:00AM-10:00AM
W-21 Not Just AP: Getting Ready for the Advanced Placement Exam at All Levels
This is an *All Star* Workshop
Presenter(s): Rebecca Wiehe — Hudson High School
Description: This workshop will focus on strategies for preparing students for the AP language exam but not simply in the AP class. The preparation for the exam or for university entrance exams and courses must begin in the first level of any language study. The presenter will share specific strategies, activities, lessons, and tips for both early and AP levels, all of which determine the students' success on the exams and beyond. Examples and handouts will be provided.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: Spanish
W-22 Fêtons la diversité! Incorporez la musique contemporaine française dans tous vos cours
Presenter(s): Pascale Abadie and Kirsten Halling — Wright State University
Description: Pendant la première moitié de l’atelier, les participants apprendront à trouver et intégrer de nouvelles chansons populaires dans tous leurs cours de français. La deuxième partie de l’atelier sera dévouée à une analyse approfondie de la comédie musicale à succès, Notre Dame de Paris. Chaque participant recevra du matériel pédagogique.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: French
Friday Featured Keynote Workshop
1:30PM-4:30PM
W-23 Keeping it (Inter)Personal through Instructional Conversations
Presenter(s): Dr. Eileen Glisan — Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Description: This workshop will focus on developing students’ oral interpersonal communication abilities through the use of instructional conversations (ICs). Participants will explore the sociocultural basis for ICs and will acquire skills in planning for and integrating ICs into classroom activities as an alternative to traditional question/answer format. The workshop will include hands on involvement and interaction among participants.
Friday Half-Day
3:30PM-5:30PM
W-24 Increasing the Use of the Target Language in the Classroom: Strategies that Work
Presenter(s): Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco — Xavier University
Description: Do you find yourself teaching more and more of your World Languages class in English? Do you sometimes wonder how you ended up using more L1 than L2 on a daily basis? This workshop addresses the issue of target language usage in the classroom. Typical obstacles that work against achieving goals of L2 input will be examined. Specific teacher and learner strategies, task design, and additional solutions to overcome such obstacles will be presented.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: English, Spanish
W-25 Bring Camp OFLA into Your Classroom
Presenter(s): Lucas Hoffman — Sylvania Southview High
School; Lori Winne — Grove Patterson Academy; and Lee Link — Gahanna Lincoln High School
Description: Engage your students using a variety of activities including music, art, games, stories, and cooking. Camp OFLA staff will share ideas that you can use in your classroom, in your foreign language club or for an immersion day. Handouts in various languages will be distributed. Participants will also have time to set-up their own camp schedule or develop a classroom game, based on our models.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian
Saturday Half-Day
9:00AM-11:00AM
W-31 Lessons in Cultural Perspective: How Can We Get There from Here?
Presenter(s): Jean W. LeLoup — United States Air Force Academy & FLTEACH; and Robert Pontario — SUNY Courtland & FLTEACH
Description: Why do French people close their doors? Why do Spaniards eat tapas? The culture standard highlights the importance of digging deeper into the Perspectives behind cultural Products and Practices. How do we learn about those Perspectives and bring them into our classrooms? The presenters will demonstrate modules for French and Spanish classes focused on uncovering cultural perspectives. These lessons & activities will engage students in exploring both their own and the target language culture.
Audience: Classroom Teachers, Teacher Trainer; Junior and/or Middle School, High School, Post-Secondary
Examples: English, French, Spanish
W-32 Entice, Enliven and Enrich: 20 Games to Make Your Spanish Classroom Vocabulary Rich, Grammatically Sound and Culturally Aware
Presenter(s): Michael Amstutz — Vermilion High School
Description: This workshop will allow participants to experience twenty games and co-operative learning experiences which will spark student participation in a competitive format. Block scheduling can be exhausting for the student learner, but with several motivation games, the Spanish classroom can be productive from the first moment to the last. Handouts explain rules and format for each game and are in Spanish only.
Audience: Classroom Teachers, Teacher Trainer; High School
Examples: Spanish
Saturday Half-Day
9:00AM-12:00PM
W-33 Gute Idee: Integrating Waldsee German Language Village Immersion Techniques into the High School German Classroom
Presenter(s): Blake Peters — German American School of Portland
Description: ***THIS WORKSHOP IS BEING SPONSORED BY THE OHIO CHAPTER OF AATG*** This interactive workshop will introduce various techniques and ideas on turning your classroom into an immersion German environment. Topics include: Learner Courage and Investment, Linguistic and Cultural Authenticity, Creating the Need to Communicate, Experiencing the Language, Music and Extended Projects.
Audience: All; All Levels
Examples: German
