Seminars for Language Teachers

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Attend one of Jan’s seminars offered across the country. Click titles for detailed descriptions, dates, and registration. In-person and recorded options are available from the Bureau of Education and Research.

Special Summer Event – Two-day Live Online Conference!
Best Strategies to Increase the Impact of Your Instruction
July 17-18, 2023

This conference teams Jan up with two experts on the latest technology for World Languages.

Jan’s sessions on specifics for blending CI and Content-Based Instruction:

  • Keynote: Two for the Price of One: Preparing Students with Language and Global Competency Skills
  • Helping Students Read Their Way to Fluency
  • The TPR Your Methods Teacher Never Taught You
  • Bring History and Biography to Life in the Target Language
  • Storytelling: A Powerful Way to Acquire Language
  • Where’s the Grammar in Today’s Communicative Classroom?
  • Musicality: Accelerate Language Acquisition
  • Innovative Ways to Integrate Geography in Your Language Classroom

Maximizing Comprehensible Input in the Target Language

  • Design online teaching based on language acquisition principles
  • Participate in online language teaching lessons. Learn some Swedish!
  • Find out easy ways to do storytelling online or in person
  • Learn how to teach nonfiction content in the target language: geography example
  • Receive an extensive 100+ page teacher handbook specific to this seminar’s content

Accelerate Students’ Use of the Target Language

  • Learn the four essential conditions that must exist for student language output
  • Understand the roles of speaking & writing in a comprehensible input class
  • Participate in online language teaching lessons. Learn some Swedish!
  • Learn how to teach nonfiction content in the target language: biography example
  • Receive an extensive 100+ page teacher handbook specific to this seminar’s content

NEW!
Addressing Grammar in Today’s Language Classrooms

FINALLY – The topic that everyone wonders about but hardly anyone talks about!
Here’s the seminar dedicated to HOW to get off the grammar-based syllabus and still get your students using the language with both fluency AND accuracy! See how grammar works in Comprehensible Input and Proficiency-based classrooms!

Eastern Time Zone – March 15, 2023
Central Time Zone – March 27, 2023
Pacific Mountain Time Zone – March 31, 2023

  • Practical strategies for teaching grammar in the context of nonfiction and fiction narratives
  • Design instruction for implicit grammar acquisition with minimal explicit explanations
  • Learn alternative approaches to meet traditional program standards
  • Participate in online language teaching lessons. Learn some Swedish!
  • Receive an extensive 100+ page teacher handbook specific to this seminar’s content

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