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Title: ACTFL Summer Institute Workshops
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Learn about the Oral Proficiency Interview by attending the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' 2018 Proficiency and Performance Summer Institute. Offerings around the country include a one-day OPI or AAPPL familiarization workshop, a 4-day OPI assessment workshop, a 2-day OPI advancement workshop, a 2-day modified OPI assessment workshop, and a writing proficiency test rater training.
Browse this summer's offerings at https://www.actfl.org/assessment-professional-development/professional-development-workshops/actfl-proficiency-performance-institute/summer-institute-workshops
Source: ACTFL
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Title: February 21 is International Mother Language Day
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February 21 is designated by the United Nations as International Mother Language Day. The 2018 theme is "Linguistic diversity and multilingualism count for sustainable development." According to the United Nations webpage (http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/), "To foster sustainable development, learners must have access to education in their mother tongue and in other languages. It is through the mastery of the first language or mother tongue that the basic skills of reading, writing and numeracy are acquired. Local languages, especially minority and indigenous, transmit cultures, values and traditional knowledge, thus play an important role in promoting sustainable futures." Find resources for advocating for and supporting mother languages at http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/resources.shtml
Larry Ferlazzo has curated some resources for celebrating mother languages, available here: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/02/22/the-best-resources-for-international-mother-language-day/
Participate in the Mother Language Meme Challenge between February 14 and 21. Learn how to make and publish a meme (using the hashtag #MemeML) here: https://mememotherlanguage.wordpress.com/
Join in the celebration on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/theinternationalmotherlanguageday/
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Title: What Teachers Need to Know Podcast: The Middle East
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Primary Source presents the What Teachers Need to Know: The Middle East podcast series. The series offers vital insight for understanding current events, history, cultures, and social issues of the modern Middle East and North Africa, so that you can facilitate deeper learning about the region with your students.
Access the podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-teachers-need-to-know-the-middle-east/id1286833947?mt=2
Source: Primary Source
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Title: Resources for Chinese New Year
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The Year of the Dog will start on February 16 this year. Here are a few resources for learning more about the Chinese (lunar) new year:
Here are some Chinese New Year resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment! site: https://edsitement.neh.gov/blog/2017/01/25/celebrating-chinese-new-year-welcome-year-dog
Here is a curated collection of online resources from Larry Ferlazzo: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/01/28/the-best-resources-for-chinese-new-year/
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Title: New Website: Canzone Italiana
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From http://www.canzoneitaliana.it/
Canzone Italiana is a platform allowing users to listen online to the invaluable musical heritage of over a century of Italian song, from 1900 to 2000, created with the objective of bringing this important part of Italian culture to a multigenerational audience. The distinguishing feature of the portal is the organization following chronological, analytical and reasoned criteria of an audio and discographic production that is at present unsystematically organized or scattered, especially on the web.
The website is available at http://www.canzoneitaliana.it/
Read more about this new resource at http://www.italymagazine.com/news/100-years-italian-tunes-are-just-click-away-new-italian-music-website-launched
Source: Canzone Italiana
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Title: Teaching Classical Epigraphy With 3D Models
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From https://sarahemilybond.com
If squeezes and rubbings aren't an easy option for you, but you want to teach epigraphy, you will enjoy this annotated list of online 3D models of inscriptions: https://sarahemilybond.com/2018/01/29/replacing-the-squeeze-teaching-classical-epigraphy-with-3d-models/
Source: History from Below
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Title: Refranes for the Months of the Year
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From https://dialogosele.wordpress.com
Here is a collection of refranes or sayings in Spanish for the different months of the year: https://dialogosele.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/12-meses-12-refranes/
Source: diálogos ELE
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Title: Videos: The Role of ESOL Specialists in Collaboration and Hands-On Science Fun with ELLs
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Colorín Colorado along with the National Education Association has produced some new videos focusing on good practices for English learners.
The first, ELLs Belong to All of Us: The Role of ESOL Specialists in Collaboration, showcases a 5th-grade team planning a science lesson about the difference between vascular and non-vascular plants. ESOL specialist Katy Padilla plays a key role in advocating for ELLs throughout the lesson planning process and sharing her strategies for engaging and supporting students. The video and supporting resources are available at http://www.colorincolorado.org/classroom-video/ells-belong-all-us-role-esol-specialists-collaboration
The second, Hands-on science fun with ELLs, features ESL teacher Anne Marie Foerster Luu, the 2013 TESOL National Teacher of the Year, talking about some of her favorite science activities to do with ELLs as well as reasons why science is such a great pathway to language. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3ZLznJwTE&feature=youtu.be
Source: Colorín Colorado
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Title: Our Nation's English Learners: Data Website
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In late January, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new interactive web page dedicated to data on English Learner students (ELs). The site uses colorful maps, bar graphs and charts to provide a clearer understanding of America's diverse ELs population in a "data story" format based on data from the Common Core of Data (CCD). The data story shows nearly every state has at least one school district where the EL population has increased by more than 50% since the 2010 school year and answers three main questions - Who are ELs? Where are ELs? And what languages do ELs speak?
The Data Story Includes:
- A state by state chart of the most common non-English languages spoken by ELs, highlighting the more than 400 different languages spoken across the country.
- A district level map that shows current EL populations, as well as changes in the EL populations over time.
- Graphics highlighting how likely ELs are to attend schools and districts with high concentrations of other ELs
These data elements will serve to dispel commonly held misconceptions about ELs and help educators better understand the needs of this diverse group of learners. "The launch of this site is a worthy investment on behalf of ELs, their families and the entire education community," said Office of English Language Acquisition Assistant Deputy Secretary Jose A. Viana. "It takes a lot of complex data and makes it accessible and easy to use."
The site was developed as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Office of English Language Acquisition and the Department's Policy and Program Studies Service.
Access the website at https://www2.ed.gov/datastory/el-characteristics/index.html
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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Title: The C Group: EFL Professionals Promoting Creativity
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From http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/
The C Group is an independent and informal grouping of EFL professionals. It aims collaboratively to share information, promote reflection and inquiry, and encourage action through more creative and open teaching practices.
Learn more about this group on their website at http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/
Source: The C Group
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