Get Your Students Speaking! Intentionally Raising Oral Proficiency in the Language Classroom

Location
Online in Zoom
Presenter(s)
Nina Wilson, UTeach Liberal Arts (The University of Texas at Austin)

Participant Learning Objectives

  • Gain practical strategies and tools to reach ACTFL’s goal of 90% target language use by the students and teachers
  • Discuss the “why” behind the “what” for each strategy and tool to maximize its effective use and placement within learning cycles
  • Discover ways to build the confidence and expectations of students to perform in the target language in the LOTE classroom

About the facilitator

Nina Wilson is a decorated, life-long educator and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish as well as her LOTE K-12 teaching certification. She returned to her alma mater as a UTeach Liberal Arts professor, working primarily with preservice LOTE teachers. Ms. Wilson has taught Spanish and AVID for over twenty years. She is a current National Board Certified Teacher and has been since 2004. She has designed and facilitated a host of learning opportunities both locally and nationally, and served as a Demonstration Classroom Teacher for her school district. Ms. Wilson has dedicated her career to developing her own skills while also enhancing those of her colleagues.

Video segments

Workshop introduction
00:00:00 - 00:06:14 Introduction and Welcoming Ritual
00:06:15 - 00:08:38 Focus Questions
00:08:39 - 00:13:22 Agenda
00:17:21 - 00:22:57 Agreements
00:22:58 - 00:39:49 How the Brain Learns teaching philosophy

Proficiency Based activities and tech tools
00:39:50 - 01:03:37 Info-gap
00:03:38 - 01:15:01 A picture is worth a thousand words
01:15:02 - 01:27:59 Battleship
01:28:00 - 01:39:30 Partner predictions
01:44:46 - 02:12:50 Connecting the dots /foursquare
02:12:51 - 02:31:55 Four clues
02:31:56 - 02:40:29 Charades and pictionary
02:40:30 - 02:47:23 Circumlocution/heads up
02:46:32 - 02:57:52 Flipgrid
02:57:53 - 03:04:56 Voki
03:04:57 - 03:09:17 Flyswatter game

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