This 5-hour course will introduce LOTE teachers to a wide variety of whole language ideas for incorporating grammar and writers' workshop in world languages. These techniques have been shown to improve language learning, and include news views, translations, scripts, mini-dialogues, acting, "tapescripts," the OAL approach (organic approach to language learning) among others. Participants will leave this course with ample strategies to increase student engagement and progress in acquiring a new language, along with demonstrated mastery necessary to pass state and local assessments.
Student Outcomes:
- Explore alternative ways to teach grammar to LOTE students.
- Become acquainted with alternative strategies to integrate the writing process for LOTE students using the target language.
- Research more ideas through online modules.
- Adapt ideas to new or current lessons for classroom adoption.
- Share and pool ideas for classroom use.
This course is 5 hours
5 hours
The OLA approach is non-traditional, and helps students develop language proficiency beyond textbooks and worksheets in an authentic and engaging atmosphere. Through strategies in language development that involve repetition, movement, paired and group conversational activities, participants will leave this course with a new set of tools for teaching organic approaches to language development. From setting up classrooms to hands-on interactivities, a highly kinesthetic and immersive approach is used to engage and move student closer to target language mastery.
Course Outcomes:
- Develop comfort and utility with organic and alternative approaches to textbooks and worksheets.
- Design new lessons, or repurpose old lessons, to implement and accommodate the OAL strategies.
- Learn how to evaluate and differentiate within the OAL to meet the needs of all students.
5 hours
Strategies for peer review, drafting, editing, and polishing final writing pieces for publication across all genres in fiction and non-fiction will be applied specifically for students learning languages other than English. Participants will review research-based strategies within the writing workshop approach that work to facilitate language learning and mastery.
Course Outcomes:
- Design lessons that employ strategies for peer review.
- Embed the full spectrum of the writing process in LOTE lessons geared toward language mastery through the medium of writing.
- Develop comfort and utility with strategies that work alongside language mastery and assessment readiness to engage and motivate students.
5 hours
Based on the book Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers (Ruckdeschel, 2011), participants will learn the nuts and bolts of student-centered peer coaching as it is appropriate for LOTE students in giving and receiving feedback on language and writing. In addition, they will learn how to facilitate student feedback that works into language mastery as it is reflected in their writing throughout the writing process. This research-based program has shown to build the capacity of student writers while improving performance on standardized assessments. All ancillary materials for immediate implementation are included.
Course Outcomes:
- Apply and facilitate a three-step feedback model of student peer review.
- Understand the roles of writing, listening, reading and responding and how to plan for instruction that builds students’ language capacity.
- Acquire and use the tools necessary to foster effective peer coaching sessions as they work inside of language learning and the writing process.
5 hours
Working through a variety of writing strategies used in ELA classrooms, such as those recommended by the National Writing Project, participants will become understand them as LOTE portable as they incorporate them into LOTE curriculum. The writing process, while encompassing research-based writing strategy, will be modified specifically for LOTE students. Using a generic approach to grammar and writing, participants will learn how to move up target language skills through the medium of writing.
Course Outcomes:
- Develop utility with research-based writing strategies across all content areas.
- Design lessons for turnkey classroom use embedding research-based LOTE writing strategies.
- Share, discuss, and give feedback on strategies adopted, adapted, and/or designed into lessons.
This 5-hour course will introduce LOTE teachers to a wide variety of whole language ideas for incorporating grammar and writers' workshop in world languages. These techniques have been shown to improve language learning, and include news views, translations, scripts, mini-dialogues, acting, "tapescripts," the OAL approach (organic approach to language learning) among others. Participants will leave this course with ample strategies to increase student engagement and progress in acquiring a new language, along with demonstrated mastery necessary to pass state and local assessments.
Student Outcomes:
- Explore alternative ways to teach grammar to LOTE students.
- Become acquainted with alternative strategies to integrate the writing process for LOTE students using the target language.
- Research more ideas through online modules.
- Adapt ideas to new or current lessons for classroom adoption.
- Share and pool ideas for classroom use.
This course is 5 hours