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Title: Third Annual Effective Border Schools Conference
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Third Annual Effective Border Schools Conference
Connecting ELLs to World-Wide Opportunities through the Power of Language
Derribando Barreras-Trascendiendo Fronteras
May 21-22, 2018
South Padre Island, Texas
For more information go to http://www.esc1.net/ebsc
Source: Region One Education Service Center
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Title: 16th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese
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The Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York will host its 16th New York International Conference on Teaching Chinese on May 5, 2018, at Columbia University. The theme is "New Visions for the Teaching of Chinese Language and Culture."
Learn more at http://clta-gny.org/18conf/18conf.html
Source: GLTA-CNY
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Title: Language Teachers Symposium: Planning with the End in Mind
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From http://cercll.arizona.edu/lates-language-teacher-symposium/
LaTeS: Language Teacher Symposium
Planning with the End in Mind: Performance Towards Proficiency
April 21, 2018
University of Arizona
Thoughtfully designed performance assessments provide evidence and feedback on learners’ cultural understandings and abilities to communicate in real-world situations with competence and confidence in the language they are learning. Learners will be more successful in demonstrating their communication skills if the performance tasks they complete are cognitively engaging, intrinsically interesting, and personally relevant. The principles of Backward Design guide teachers in the selection of purposeful learning experiences to build learners’ communication skills and cultural understandings.
Beginning with the end in mind, in this workshop participants will deconstruct sample performance assessment tasks to identify the knowledge and skills that learners are expected to demonstrate. They will discuss how closely the tasks reflect real-world contexts where learners need to use the target language. Next, participants will discuss criteria to use in evaluating learners’ performances. The participants will then compare the criteria they generated to the model rubrics that were used for the sample performance tasks. They will evaluate sample performances using the criteria from the sample rubrics and any additional criteria suggested to enhance the evaluation of the task. They will discuss the degree to which the rubrics successfully reflect high quality performance. Next, participants will brainstorm the kinds of activities that will prepare learners to successfully complete the final performance tasks. After analyzing the model performance assessment tasks, participants will develop standards-based performance assessment tasks and rubrics for their own teaching context.
For full details about this professional development opportunity, go to http://cercll.arizona.edu/lates-language-teacher-symposium/
Source: CERCLL
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Title: CABE Summer Spanish Dual Language Immersion Institute
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From https://cabe.k12oms.org/eventdetail.php?gid=1524&id=146326
The California Association for Bilingual Education will host a Summer Spanish Dual Language Immersion Institute for elementary and secondary programs in Monterey on July 1-3, 2018.
The institute will be conducted entirely in Spanish for teachers and instructional coaches and in English for administrators and will provide TK-12 teachers an opportunity to learn the critical research, theory, and pedagogy necessary to become a strong and successful DLI teacher, instructional coach, or administrator. The organizers highly recommend that you bring a team (administrators, coaches, and teachers) from your district/site!
For more details go to https://cabe.k12oms.org/eventdetail.php?gid=1524&id=146326 or see a flyer at http://files.constantcontact.com/24254e99301/e5e1a1e2-c338-4c46-a6dd-dcc0a4b5a38b.pdf
Source: CABE
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Title: STARTALK Professional Development: Chinese Language Instruction in the Digital Age
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This STARTALK professional development program is open to Chinese language teachers in grades 6-12 in the United States. The program will focus on incorporating learner-centered technology tools in the Chinese language curriculum. An asynchronous online component will take place June 13-22, 2018, and the residential institute will take place at the University of Colorado Boulder June 25 through July 3.
Applications are due by April 27.
More information and the application are available at https://www.colorado.edu/ptea/sites/default/files/attached-files/startalk_application_2018.pdf
Source: STARTALK
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Title: ACTFL Mentoring Program Accepting Applications
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From https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/career-resources/mentoring-program
The ACTFL Mentoring Program is designed to help early career language teachers succeed in their current assignments and learn the skills to be successful long-term in their careers. Mentors and mentees will be matched by language, level, interest, and location as best as possible. Two mentor programs are available: the traditional program for in-person educators, and the distance language educator program for those who teach online.
The application deadline for mentees closes May 13. Mentors may apply between May 27 and July 22.
For full details go to https://www.actfl.org/professional-development/career-resources/mentoring-program
Source: ACTFL
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Title: 2018 STARTALK Discover Russian Professional Development
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American Councils for International Education and Fairfax County Public Schools/TJHSST will offer a professional development program for teachers of Russian: “Roadmap for the Teaching and Learning of Russian with the World-Readiness Standards.”
Program Dates: July 16th - July 27th.
Program Location: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia
Both experienced and beginning teachers are encouraged to apply.
Applications are due by May 18.
Source: STARTALK
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Title: Seminar: Earning the Seal of Biliteracy
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From http://www.ictfl.org/content/2018/02/tall-30-pathways-proficiency-earning-seal-biliteracy
TALL 3.0 Pathways to Proficiency: Earning the Seal of Biliteracy
July 11-13, 2018
Chiara Center, Springfield, IL
Illinois’ Seal of Biliteracy is rooted in a demonstration of a high level of proficiency in English and another language. While heritage speakers and students in a long sequence of study of a language may achieve Intermediate High proficiency more easily, how can a district develop Pathways to Proficiency that lead to the Seal of Biliteracy for all (more) students?
In addition to a thorough understanding of how teaching for proficiency differs from traditional foreign language instruction, language professionals will understand how to develop a progressive Pathway to Proficiency that leads to demonstrable student achievement. Key understandings of teaching for proficiency, unit and lesson development, classroom practices, and vertical articulation compose the main themes of this seminar.
Presenters include 2014 ACTFL Teacher of the Year Linda Egnatz, ICTFL Professional Learning Chair Todd Bowen, and representatives from the Department of English Language Learners of the Illinois State Board of Education.
Districts are encouraged to send a small team to build a district-wide plan of implementation. Attendees of previous TALL-IL events are encouraged to attend as this is a new initiative.
Membership in the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is required. 16 PD hours will be awarded. Registration is due by June 1, 2018.
For more information go to http://www.ictfl.org/content/2018/02/tall-30-pathways-proficiency-earning-seal-biliteracy
Source: ICTFL
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Title: Summer Intensive Arabic Program for High School Students
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From http://publish.illinois.edu/summerlanguageprogram/
Summer Intensive Arabic Program for High School Students
June 10 – 23, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) opens its doors to motivated high school students for a 2-week intensive Elementary Arabic course. This is an introductory course in Modern Standard Arabic for high school students with limited or no prior knowledge of the Arabic language.
For full details about this program go to http://publish.illinois.edu/summerlanguageprogram/
Source: Qatar Foundation International
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Title: STARTALK Korean Language and Culture Academy
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From https://startalkkorean.wisc.edu/
The University of Wisconsin-Madison STARTALK Korean Language and Culture Academy (KLCA) is a four-week, non-credit, non-residential program for high school students interested in exploring Korean language and culture. Through engaging, interactive learning activities, students will learn to communicate in Korean while exploring Korean cultural practices and traditions.
The 2018 KLCA will take place June 18-June 29 and July 9-20, 2018 (no instruction the week of July 2-6), 9am-2pm, Monday-Friday
For more details and to apply, go to https://startalkkorean.wisc.edu/
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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