Learn a language through TPR Storytelling^® while discovering the power of comprehensible input. Develop the four language skills more quickly, more effectively, and with more joy than you ever thought possible. Come see why teachers who have converted to TPR Storytelling^® report that they are more enthusiastic about their jobs, that their students score higher on proficiency tests than ever before, and that they finally have time for a life!

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Faites entrer la francophonie dans votre classe!

Presenter(s): Catherine Petillon, French Embassy; Yanick Godbout, Délégation du Québec and Nancy Raffin, University of Southern California Francophone Research and Resource Center

Plus de 200 millions de personnes parlent français dans une cinquantaine de pays. Vos étudiants en sont-ils conscients? À travers plusieurs ateliers, nous vous donnerons des ressources et des outils pour aborder la réalité francophone. Au programme: exploration du matériel audiovisuel disponible sur notre site www.espacefrancophone.org; exploitation de textes littéraires francophones; les déclinaisons de la langue française à travers le monde; TV5, une fenêtre sur le monde francophone.

Can you improve your native speakers’ reading, writing, and critical thinking skills and connect your activities to the Standards? It is easier than you think! This workshop will give you some new ideas for your classroom. Handouts will be provided.

Teachers will be shown how to implement this thematic unit, Cuestiones éticas, designed especially to address all the new components of the AP Spanish Language Exam. The presentation will address all areas included in the new examination format: aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar and composition. Participants in the workshop will receive all materials presented as well as suggestions for implementation.

Looking for ways to make your classroom more wonderful than wild? This workshop offers a variety of methods to teach and inspire as well as deal with the many demands of the world language classroom of the 21st Century. Activities and strategies presented will range from basic classroom management to personalized guided practice to engaging ways to assess student proficiency. Hands-on and collaborative activities will allow teachers to grapple with the always challenging issues of homework, daily comprehensible input, keeping reluctant learners engaged and assessment.

In this hands-on presentation the participants will learn techniques to present instruction in the target language from day one while maintaining the active engagement of the students.

Social networking technologies such as blogs, wikis, and podcasting, are transforming our lives and our classrooms for both beginning and proficient technology-using teachers. In this workshop participants will explore them, learn about how to use them and how to assess learning through them.

In this workshop, the presenters will show you how to get students involved in Chinese language learning and encourage their language application by using appropriate technology software, including Keynote™, PowerPoint™, iMovie™, iPhoto™, and others. In addition, detailed project instructions and rubrics will be provided for your reference. This workshop will be held at San Diego State University. You will receive directions to the University with your confirmation letter from the Registrar.

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Imagine a new way for students or yourself to do a presentation...complete with soundtrack and music! Imagine making a video for your class but with your computer! Imagine... believe... achieve! It can be done! This workshop will be held at San Diego State University. You will receive directions to the University with your confirmation letter from the Registrar.

How does one successfully integrate grammar into the daily routine? Who teaches what grammar where, in what sequence, why and how? Are there new tricks to help students to ‘get’ it? Several possible answers to these recurring questions will be explored in this workshop. Join us on the trip.

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French Civilization and Culture: A Different Approach for Advanced Students

Presenter(s): Anne Jensen, Gunn High School

In May, 2009, the College Board eliminated the French AP Literature Exam. In order to keep students in the French program and to provide them with another alternative to AP, the presenter developed a French Civilization and Culture (honors) course. During this workshop, she will share her curriculum and experiences with the first year of offering this course.

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Argentina, ¡Vivid la cultura!

Presenter(s): Diana Muñoz, Redondo Union High School

Bringing culture into a Spanish for Spanish Speaker class not only supports the new State Standards but it also engages and motivates students to learn more about their cultural roots and native language. This session will provide participants with an array of listening, reading, writing, speaking and cultural activities that you and your students will love.

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AP Preparation - It Starts with Level One!

Presenter(s): Shari Kaulig, Los Alamitos High School, Project COACH; Lynda Fine, Los Alamitos High School, Project COACH

A carefully articulated program will prepare students for success in Advanced Placement. Beginning with level one, students can practice the skills needed for AP through personally relevant and interesting classroom activities.

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Competencia Comunicativa en Español

Presenter(s): Rosario Outes Jimenez, Consulate General of Spain

Teniendo en cuenta los principios y descriptores del Marco Europeo de Referencia y los Estándares y Orientaciones K-12, trabajaremos estrategias para enseñar y desarrollar la competencia comunicativa de los alumnos en el aula.

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Making Magic with Music

Presenter(s): Lonnie DaiZovi, El Dorado High School

This exciting and active workshop will demonstrate many ways that all types of music (popular, folkloric, made-for the classroom) can enhance any lesson at any level. Teachers will be able to use these techniques on Monday.

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A (Microsoft) Word^® to the Wise: Tables, Templates and Tricks for the Language Teacher

Presenter(s): Sally Mearns, Site Director, Bay Area Foreign Language Project

Do you use Microsoft Word^® but never go beyond simple word processing? Discover easy and creative uses of the many features available in this ubiquitous product. Learn to make activities, worksheets, flashcards, and more. All participants must bring their own laptops with Microsoft Word installed.

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Storytelling with PowerPoint^®

Presenter(s): Bozo Dzakula, Defense Language Institute; Maida Dzakula, Defense Language Institute

The focus of this workshop is to show one of the best features of PowerPoint^®, which allows a user to create and present a digital story. This story could include attention-getting features such as a combination of images, video and audio clips, text, and narration, which are useful for students’ projects in the scope of task-based language instruction. This workshop will be held at San Diego State University. You will receive directions to the University with your confirmation letter from the Registrar.

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Create Your Own Blog

Presenter(s): Andrea Marek, Northgate High School; Nolene Regnier-Wilkinson, Hogan High School

Want to learn more about the digital classroom? In this session, participants will learn how to set up their own blog for the classes they teach and how to incorporate it in their daily teaching. This workshop will be held at San Diego State University. You will receive directions to the University with your confirmation letter from the Registrar.

Explore the Spanish arts of bullfighting and dance! Learn about the corrida de toros through an authentic, dynamic, and detailed multimedia presentation, then master the moves of the Sevillanas and Rumba Flamenca quickly and easily, to enjoy and share these cultural treasures with your students! NCLB focus: cross-curricular connections and classroom management techniques.

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Language Proficiency: Incorporating the World and Accelerating Acquisition

Presenter(s): Donna Green Hertz, Monterey Institute of International Studies

This workshop will demonstrate how regular and intensive use of target-language materials, including Internet searches, film, music, and other audio clips, can accelerate language acquisition at all levels. Grammar and structure become warm-ups and isolated events and students take off, speaking, reading and writing about real topics that matter such as news, sports, culture, politics and current controversies. Appropriate for secondary and university-level instruction and new teachers.

This workshop will demonstrate how to present authentic literature to level 1 and 2 language learners. The main goal is to motivate, stimulate, and create enthusiasm for the literature selection through hands on activities, games, group projects, music and dance.

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Something Old, Something New for the Classroom

Presenter(s): Ninfa Iglesias, Sequoia Middle School; Carol Sparks, CSUEB Instructor/ EBFLP Team

Participants will experience tried and true procedures to plan student outcomes, activities and assessments using the California World Languages Standards; enhance their classroom management skills; improve student engagement in their own learning. Samples of summative projects, lesson plans and activities created by a new teacher and a veteran teacher will be distributed. Participants are encouraged to bring copies of the California World Languages Standards.

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Approches pédagogiques aux publicités

Presenter(s): Francine Shirvani, Head-Royce School

La publicité francophone est une excellente manière d’apprendre. Venez voir comment vous pouvez les utiliser en classe. Vous partirez avec un DVD et des adresses.

Language teachers know that correct spelling enhances any writing assignment. Accuracy is part of both the California Foreign Language Framework and the recently adopted World Language Content Standards. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn effective strategies and techniques to help native Spanish speakers understand when and why to use written accents correctly resulting in immediate student achievement. Handouts, including a step-by-step guide to teaching accents, will be provided.

Would you like to set the stage for your students’ success in appreciating culture? Learn how to integrate the Effective Instructional Sequence as well as the new California World Language Standards in a cultural unit on Perú. All materials will be available on a website that will be provided during the session. 

This presentation will focus on how to design a standards-based Chinese as a Foreign Language curriculum by “unpacking” the California World Language Standards. Samples of standards-base lessons and year-long plans will be explored.

Keep all language learners engaged with a variety of motivational guided practices that increase interest in language learning. Templates and instructions will be provided during the session. Participants will be taught how to customize these activities to their own book, vocabulary and classroom. Come participate in a true hands-on workshop.

Have you heard about podcasts, but aren’t sure what to do with them or how to get them? Do you want to incorporate more songs into your classes? Do you want to increase your students’ contact with French culture? You will learn how to download a podcast, but the majority of the presentation will focus on specific podcasts, short clips, music and songs and the lessons that go with them. Participants will leave this workshop with lessons and media that they can use on Monday for all levels of French. Participants are encouraged to bring a flash drive.