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From the SEELANGS listserv:

NAATPl 3rd Biennial Workshop for Polish Language Teachers
Standard-Based Approaches to Teaching Polish Language
May 11, 2019
Organized by: Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL (Specific location, TBA)

This workshop will bring together instructors to share their practices and materials, as they relate to teaching Polish. The focus of this workshop will be on standard-based approaches to teaching language, especially alongside ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language, www.actfl.org) proficiency and world-readiness standards. This workshop will serve as a forum for exchange of the most successful topics, projects, and syllabi from the most recent years of teaching, across participants’ institutions. 

The workshop will consist of individual or group presentations, 20 minutes in length. 

There will be one panel dedicated especially to K-12 Polish language teaching, including Saturday Schools, and the committee asks that papers submitted for this panel be noted as such in their proposal. 

We invite all Polish language instructors to apply to present at the workshop, however, presenting is not a requirement, as we also encourage attendance in order to learn from practices of other instructors. 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Topics can include but are not limited to the following:
-Curriculum design, alongside ACTFL Standards, across all levels of instruction
-Assessment practices and assessment design 
-Reverse design and curricular transformations
-Advantages and limitations of using authentic, adapted, or original materials
-Effective search for materials and criteria for their usefulness
-Material use in developing cultural awareness
-Preparing students to work with authentic materials
-Using technology in adapting materials (adaptation, supplementation, and design)
-Creative ways to use contemporary materials for teaching Polish
-Designing activities for students on all levels of language proficiency

We invite all attendees to bring and share the activities and exercises based on materials they have developed and successfully use in their classroom.

Send the following information to Anna Szawara szawara@uic.edu by Friday, March 11, 2019:
- a presentation abstract (200-250 words)
- a short biographical sketch (maximum 100 words) including a brief description of your research and/or teaching interests

K-12/Saturday School Panel 
We invite all attendees to bring and share the activities and exercises based on materials they have developed and successfully use in their classroom.

Workshop registration (on site):
Faculty / Instructors’ fee - $30
Graduate Students’ fee - $20
(for those wishing to attend as audience members, RSVP to szawara@uic.edu by March 11, 2019)

Please feel free to forward and distribute widely!
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Anna Szawara

Szawara, A. [SEELANGS] CFP: NAATPl 3rd Biennial Workshop for Polish Language Teachers, May 11, 2019 in Chicago. SEELANGS listserv (SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, 11 Dec 2018).