002.A.1.1 2010 ACTFL Communication Webinars

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ACTFL Webinars
Professional Development

 ACTFL WEBINARS FOR PROFESSIONALS
Series One: How to Engage Students in Interpersonal Communication

Getting your students actively engaged in foreign language study is a huge challenge. It’s also essential for developing communicative competence. ACTFL webinars are designed to help you inspire and energize your students to excel. Led by educational experts, each course delivers new insights and proven techniques that you can use right away.

Make the Most of Your Career with ACTFL Webinars:

• Earn professional development points*
• Discover strategies for effective instruction and assessment
• Harness technology to promote student interaction and learning
• Take away proven tips, techniques, and classroom tools
• Show what you know! Complete our follow-up assignment and receive FREE professional feedback
• Earn a certificate of completion with every course—perfect for teacher certification renewal 
• Participate live and on demand (good for 90 days)

SIGN UP FOR ONE, TWO, OR ALL THREE! THE MORE YOU ATTEND, THE MORE YOU SAVE!

	Assessing Communication: How Do You Know When Your Students Are Making Progress? Watch On-Demand To assess interpersonal communication, it’s best to keep the end in mind: How will students demonstrate their skills? Discover why “working backwards” can help educators identify what really counts and get practical tips and plans you can put to use right away. Presenter: Paul Sandrock, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
	Activating Communication: Five Ways to Enhance Communication Using Technology Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM (ET) Want a handful of practical, effective techniques you can count on to engage your Millennial students? Don’t miss this session for five ways to engage your entire classroom! Learn how to motivate students to explore real-life communication and find out how to leverage the latest technology to maximize performance. Presenter: Toni Theisen, Loveland High School, 2009 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year.
	Making Communication Meaningful: Creating Interpersonal Communicative Tasks Wednesday, October 27, 2010 – 3:30 PM ET to 4:30 PM ETDeveloping meaningful interpersonal tasks not only helps students develop oral proficiency skills—it makes them want to communicate using their target languages! Get reliable techniques on how you can develop engaging, challenging tasks that will bring new energy to your classroom. Presenter: Laura Terrill, independent consultant and former coordinator for World Languages & ELL.

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• Members: $75 per webinar ($180 for all three)
• Non-Members: $99 per webinar ($239 for all three)

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* Receive one (1) professional development point per webinar OR attend all three in the series, complete the follow-up assignment and earn fifteen (15) points!
 

About the Presenters

	Paul Sandrock, assistant director for the Content and Learning Team at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, works directly with the state consultants in all subject areas. Prior to this, Sandrock served as the DPI consultant for world languages education and taught Spanish (grades 7–12) for 16 years. His work in the area of assessment includes the standing committee for the Foreign Language National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the ACTFL Integrated Performance Assessment project. The chief author of Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages and co-author of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s publication Essentials of World Languages, Grades K–12, Sandrock received the Prentice Hall/NCSSFL State Supervisor of the Year Award and has served as ACTFL president and a member of the ACTFL Board of Directors.
	Toni Theisen, 2009 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, teaches French at Loveland High School in Loveland, CO, where she is also the district world languages curriculum supervisor. She is a National Board Certified Teacher with a MA in Foreign Language Teaching and French from the University of Northern Colorado and a MA in Education of Diverse Learners from the University of Phoenix. Theisen has presented many workshops on Multiple Intelligences, Differentiated Learning, and 21st Century Technology. She recently chaired the 2009 revision of the Colorado Standards for World Languages and served as the co-chair for the revision of the National Board for Professional Teacher Standards for World Languages. Her honors include the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award, The Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the SWCOLT Outstanding Teacher Award. As an ACTFL Board of Directors member, Toni served as the program chair for the 2004 and 2005 annual conferences.
	Laura Terrill holds a BA in French from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a MA in Secondary Administration from Northeast Missouri State University. She taught French at all levels for 21 years before becoming the coordinator of foreign language and English as a Second Language and then, director of curriculum in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO, before taking early retirement to join her husband in Puerto Rico. She has taught methods courses at Washington University and Butler University and has been active at the local, state, regional, and national levels. She served as the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages delegate to the ACTFL Board of Directors and was the 2006 Program Chair for the ACTFL Convention. She recently taught high school French in Indianapolis and is currently working as an independent consultant in world languages and ELL.

ACTFL Webinars are Designed for You!

Getting your students actively engaged in foreign language study is a huge challenge. It’s also essential for developing communicative competence. ACTFL webinars help you energize your classroom! Led by education experts, each 60-minute session delivers new insights and proven techniques to help you inspire your students and boost your career. Developed to fit your busy schedule, each session is available LIVE or on demand for 90 days.

Dont miss the next LIVE event:

Making Communication Meaningful: Creating Interpersonal Communicative Tasks

Wednesday, October 27     3:30 PM to 4:30 PM (ET)

Involve your students with meaningful tasks that not only develop oral proficiency skills and bring new energy into the classroom, they'll inspire students to want to communicate using their target language. Presented by Laura Terrill, independent consultant and former coordinator for World Languages and ELL. Learn more and register

Assessing Communication Presentation
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