Connecting With the Arts: What is Arts Integration?
This program presents three instructional models: independent instruction, team teaching, and collaborations with community resources. You will explore informal, complementary, and interdependent curricular connections and see examples of what arts integrated instruction looks like in the classroom.
Connecting With the Arts: How Do We Collaborate?
This program illustrates a variety of teaching partnerships. You will see how teachers integrating the arts can benefit from collaborating with fellow teachers, visiting artists, and community resources.
Connecting With the Arts: What's the Big Idea?
This program is about planning and teaching toward big ideas. You'll see how arts integrated instruction enables students to make deeply personal connections to what they are learning.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Meaningful Interpretation
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. In this session, you will examine methods for building up students' interpretive skills in order to move them beyond literal comprehension and toward a deeper interpretation of authentic texts. You will examine how to create effective interpretive tasks that tap into students' background knowledge while fostering critical thinking skills. Additionally, you will consider methods of selecting appropriate authentic texts, such as art, film, folktales, advertisements, and books, based on cultural and interdisciplinary content. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Person to Person
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. Focusing on interpersonal communication, this session addresses the importance of classroom conversations. You will explore how different teaching approaches encourage or discourage meaningful interaction and analyze the patterns of communication that exist in your classroom. You will then add to your repertoire of effective communication strategies and plan for classroom interactions that help students improve their communication skills while learning content. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Delivering the Message
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. In this session, you will explore the organization of effective presentational tasks that help students focus on particular audiences. You will examine methods of helping students build strategies for completing written and oral presentational tasks and explore how you might spiral tasks to make them appropriate for students at different proficiency levels. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Subjects Matter
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session addresses strategies for promoting language learning within the context of other curriculum areas, such as science and language arts. You will explore ways to effectively integrate content into language learning and choose the appropriate content according to your students' various ages and proficiency levels. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Rooted in Culture
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session focuses on how to integrate cultural concepts into your foreign language teaching or extend the cultural content in your existing lessons. You will also analyze ways to move your students from a basic understanding of cultural products and practices toward a deeper sense of cultural perspectives, both in the target culture and in their own culture. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Valuing Diversity in Learners
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session addresses how to respond to the diversity of learners in a foreign language classroom. You will reflect on student differences that can affect foreign language instruction and learning -- such as varying literacy and language skills, cultural backgrounds and experiences, and learning disabilities and approaches -- and consider strategies for helping all students progress in their learning. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.
Teaching Foreign Languages: Planning for Assessment
This workshop for K–12 foreign language instructors is designed to help you evaluate your teaching practice by examining a research topic from the national standards produced by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages as they apply across languages and skill levels. This session examines how assessment can be embedded in relevant, meaningful, and authentic performance tasks throughout the year. You will explore ways of planning and carrying out assessments that inform both you and your students about their progress. You will also look at ways to provide students with feedback that helps them track their language acquisition. The workshop features the work of leading researchers and the reflections of practicing teachers in a lively round-table discussion format. Classroom examples are shown throughout the video segments in order to illustrate the ideas being discussed.