Led by Beth Skelton
Why register?
Do you have students in your secondary world language classes who seem to have reached a plateau and are struggling to reach the next level of language acquisition? Is it a challenge to keep such students motivated when they previously experienced success at the beginner level? If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to help intermediate students move off the plateau and continue to grow in the target language, this interactive workshop is for you. You will leave the workshop with ideas that you can implement right away.
Registration
Early-bird rate: Euro 75 (register by February 1, 2021)
Standard rate: Euro 99 (closes on 3 February , 2020)
The event will go live 10 minutes before the start on the programme.
Event details
Who is it for?
Grade 6-12 world language teachers who work with intermediate and advanced level students.
Workshop goals
Identify ways to help students:
• set and achieve clear mini language goals
use reading strategies to comprehend complex text
write with more complexity and fluency
speak with increased fluency
develop autonomy and motivation as language learners
Featured speaker
Beth Skelton
Beth Skelton provides professional development, coaching, and consulting for schools around the world focused on creating equitable education for multilingual learners. She believes that all students are academic language learners and that all teachers are language teachers.
She holds a Master’s Degree in Multicultural Teacher Education and has worked with early childhood, elementary, middle, high school and adult language learners in rural, urban, suburban, and international school settings for over 30 years. She began her career as a German teacher and continues to be fascinated with the language acquisition process. She has extensive experience and training in Kagan cooperative learning, Harvard Project Zero and Visible Thinking Routines, the WIDA framework, SIOP, International Baccalaureate English B course, Marzano’s Strategies that Work for English Learners, Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) for English Learners, and student-centered instructional coaching. She has published materials for teaching adult English Learners with the TPRS method entitled Putting it Together, which have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, French, and sign language.