Choose from live online or onsite seminars.
Jan’s seminars are sponsored by the prestigious BER (Bureau of Education Research). Seminars are scheduled in various time zones. See the list and registration links 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
2024: Nov. 14, Nov. 26 Live Online
2025: Jan. 10, Jan. 15 Live Online
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Option: Contact Jan to schedule this seminar as an in-person event on a date that fits your school calendar.
- 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
Enhance Your Students’ Use of the Target Language
2005: Feb. 3, Feb 11 Live Online
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Option: Contact Jan to schedule this seminar as an in-person event on a date that fits your school calendar.
- Learn four essential conditions 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 cultural content lessons.
New!
Addressing Grammar in Today’s Language Classrooms
2024: Dec. 5, Dec. 10 Live Online
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Option: Contact Jan to schedule this seminar as an in-person event on a date that fits your school calendar.
FINALLY – The topic that everyone wonders about but hardly anyone talks about!
Here’s the seminar on HOW to get off the grammar-based syllabus and still get your students to use the language with confidence AND accuracy! See how grammar works in Comprehensible Input and Proficiency-based classrooms!
Onsite Two-Day Institute:
World-Savvy World Language Instruction
Contact Jan to bring an intensive version of her signature workshop to your school. Give your students something to talk about: how to teach world geography, biography, and history in the target language—even in Level 1!
Online or Onsite Professional Development Sessions
Contact Jan to present one or more of these topics as half-day or full-day professional development. Mix ‘n’ match sessions or request a topic. Choose in-person or live online.
Most Popular Topics
- 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
- Immersion or Submersion for Immersion and Dual-Language Programs
- FLES We Can! Music, Movement, and Stories in K-8 Language Programs
