Live Online Teacher Seminars
Jan’s seminars are sponsored by the prestigious BER (Bureau of Education Research). See a list of in-person and live online events below.
Any of these seminars can be personalized and presented ONSITE at YOUR SCHOOL.
Contact Jan to bring a seminar to your location on a date you select!
Maximizing Comprehensible Input in the Target Language
2023: November 7, November 16, November 20
- Design online teaching based on language acquisition principles
- Participate in demo language 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
2023: December 12
Registration opens in September
- Give your students something to talk about: Learn how to teach nonfiction content in the target language: cultural geography, biography, history …
- 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 demo language lessons. Learn some Swedish!
- Receive an extensive 100+ page teacher handbook with templates to help you create your own cultural content lessons
Back by popular demand! Two-day Insitute
Train the Trainer Institute: Maximizing Comprehensible Input in the Target Language
Save the dates: January 25 and 26, 2024
Registration opens October 2023
This institute expands the original signature seminar for more in-depth teacher training with a focus on how school leaders can best support their teacher team.
New!
Addressing Grammar in Today’s Language Classrooms
Coming in 2024: Jan. 31, Feb. 6, Feb. 15
Registration opens October 2023
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!
- 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
Two-day Live Online Spring Conference!
Best Strategies to Increase the Impact of Your Instruction
Save the dates: April 22 and 23, 2024
Registration opens January 2024
At this conference, Jan teams up with two language education technology experts. Choose from practical, how-to-use technology sessions or Jan’s sessions on specifics for blending CI and Content-Based Instruction. Mix ‘n’ match to personalize your own learning.
Keynote
Two for the Price of One:
Preparing Students with Language and Global Competency Skills
Sessions:
- 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
