NYSAFLT will offer a series of webinars throughout the 2011-2012
school year that will address multiple facets of foreign language
education. You are encouraged to register at your earliest
convenience for any of the webinars below. (Mouse over a presenter's image for their bio)
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November 3, 2011 --
4:00pm (1 hour)
“Every Day Is
Culture Day”
This session will help
participants reflect on the role of culture in the LOTE
classroom at all Checkpoints. Using the National
Standards for Foreign Language as a framework,
practitioners will learn ways to help students uncover
cultural perspectives by examining cultural products and
practices. Using this approach, teachers can make every
day a culture day! The presentation is in English with
examples in Spanish. The content is applicable to all
language classrooms.
Due to circumstances beyond
our control, Fabien Riviere has had to cancel his
presentation. He will be replaced by Marie Campanaro,
past chairperson of the NYSAFLT Parents as Language
Partners Committee and current chairperson of the
NYSAFLT Public Advocacy Committee. A Spanish teacher at
Cosgrove Middle School in the Spencerport School
District, Marie has been involved with NYSAFLT for many
years and has presented workshops on parents as language
partners, public advocacy, and differentiated
instruction to name just a few topics. We're sure you
will thoroughly enjoy Marie's presentation! If you have
any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This webinar offers an opportunity to explore ways
to build strong teacher-parent partnerships as well as
strategies to ensure a direct connection between the
foreign language learning in school and back home.
Participants will value the importance that parents’
involvement can have in foreign language learning and
instruction. Discussions and activities will help
develop and make teacher-parent partnerships as
effective and positive of an experience as possible.
Participants will be presented different approaches to
involve parents into their classroom routine using
simplistic and powerful techniques. Eventually,
participants will get familiar with the
parents as language partners section of the
NYSAFLT website in order to both direct and
help parents or guardians of students in the learning of
a foreign language.
“Using Interactive
Whiteboards in the Language Classroom”
In this webinar,
participants will learn of the many outstanding
capabilities of interactive whiteboards. We'll
specifically be using the SMARTBoard Notebook software.
Walk away from this session with several ideas about how
to integrate this well established technology into your
language classroom. Your students will be more engaged
and motivated - yielding in their learning more
efficiently and being able to listen, speak, read, and
write in the target language more accurately. Examples
will be in French and Spanish, but can be adapted to any
language. This workshop is for world language or ESL
teachers who have students at any level, PK-16.
“7 Strategies that
Help Keep You in the Target Language”
Are you struggling to
use the target language 90% of your instructional time?
Why? Do you feel you don’t have the time? Are your
students confused? Do you wish you were better at
speaking the language? The seven language-promoting
strategies presented in this webinar can improve your
confidence and your students’ willingness to experiment
and interact with any target language.
“Empowering Language
Learners with Tools from the Web”
This session will
explore web-based tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts,
social networking and bookmarking sites. An overview of
different tools will be provided, as well as a rationale
for their use in teaching languages, with the goal of
de-mystifying these tools and demonstrating their use in
teaching and assessing English Language Learners. The
goal of this webinar is to acquaint language teachers
with the unique and valuable resources available to them
on the web and to provide concrete lesson ideas that
will help teachers incorporate web-tools into their
world language classes.
As teachers are being asked to align
their curriculum to the Common Core Standards in
compliance with the Race to the Top initiatives, in this
session we will examine how closely national World
Language standards already align to the wording of the
Common Core for Literacy, as well as the Framework for
21st Century Skills. Sample lessons will be provided to
demonstrate the standards that address listening,
speaking, reading and writing skills and strategies for
applying Student Learning Objectives, the Six Shifts and
Close Reading. Participants will be guided through the
steps needed to revise their current curriculum to
reflect the wording and intent of the Common Core for
Literacy.
VIEW ON DEMAND (FREE for
2012 NYSAFLT Members through June 30, 2012)
If you register for, log into, and remain online for the
duration of a live NYSAFLT webinar, NYSAFLT will issue a
certificate stating that you registered for and logged into the
webinar. The determination of professional development credit is
at the discretion of each individual school district. Check with
your administrator for further details.
If you purchase a webinar to view "on demand" you must make your
own arrangments with your school to determine if and/or how
professional development credit can be awarded. NYSAFLT will not
issue a certificate for "on demand" webinars. Only a receipt of
payment will be sent if requested.
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is required:
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newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
* Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000
* Cable modem, DSL or better Internet connection
* Minimum of Pentium® class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM
(Recommended) (2 GB of RAM for Windows® Vista)
Participants wishing to connect to audio using VoIP will need a
fast Internet connection (384 kbps or more recommended, a microphone and speakers (a USB
headset is recommended).
Mac® computer users can attend Webinars.
* Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
* Safari 3.0 or newer, Firefox 3.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and
Java™ enabled)
* Cable modem, DSL or better Internet connection
* Power PC G4/G5 or Intel processor (512 MB of RAM or better
recommended)
Participants wishing to connect to audio using VoIP will need a
fast Internet connection, a microphone and speakers (a USB
headset is recommended).
New York State Association of Fo
New York State Association of Foreign
Language Teachers, Inc. (NYSAFLT)
2400 Main Street
Buffalo, New York 14214
716.836.3130 | 716.836.3020 (f) info@nysaflt.org
