Registration: 9:00-9:30

Session 1: 9:30-10:30

-Get every student involved: The Varied and Active Language Classroom
Angela Katz, St Francis High School
Using a variety of media and productive hands-on activities to achieve a greater level of student engagement in the secondary school Foreign Language classroom. A focus on improving oral work, student participation and general enjoyment in a language class by providing different kinds of activities.

-Difference, Priviledge and Marginalization
Roland Sintos-Coloma, University of Miami, Ohio
This workshop enables educators to examine their identities
based on categories of difference, such as race, class, and gender, and to
explore how their identities shape curriculum, instruction,
teacher-student relations, and classroom and school climate. It aims to
recognize “blind spots”, to analyze taken-for-granted norms, beliefs, and
assumptions, and to create spaces for dialogue, respect, and inclusion.

Session 2: 10:45-11:45

- Short Immersion Programs for Elementary Students
Linda Froehlich, Sayre School
I will present two different models of short term Language Immersion programs for elementary school children that the French program has conducted at Sayre School, to show that these are eminently feasible even at a small school and to encourage you to consider starting similar programs at your school.

-Alternative Assessments in Middle School Languages
Krista Green and Linda Chambers, Sayre School
A look at performance assessments and innovative assessments effective for
middle school French and Spanish students.

- Reading in a TPRS Classroom:
Sarah Moran, St Francis High School and Donna Tatum-Johns, Kentucky
Country Day School
TPRS means "Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling."
Reading should be a main component of any L2 classroom. See how to
incorporate reading in your classroom, (even if you don't focus on TPRS)
and why it's so important. Your students will benefit! Handouts
provided. (Note: This session was presented at the KWLA annual
conference in October 2006 as a 3-hour workshop. We are greatly
condensing it for KAIS)

Lunch 12:00-12:45

Session 3: 1:00-2:00

- Leaving Mother Lake: a coming of age story
Francois Kimble, Louisville Collegiate School
A look at the story of a young Moso (Southwest China) girl. Plans included
appropriate for a middle school course. (This is a Humanities Gathering session that may be of interest to Modern Language teachers.)s

Round Table- The future of Modern Language Learning in the curriculum
An open ended discussion about the place of modern languages in the independent school curriculum. What languages should be taught? What is the importance of elementary modern language instruction? This session will include information about state-wide plans for language instruction innovation in light of the 2010 World Equestrian Games

- Rethinking race: implications for Language Arts and Social Studies
Roland Sintos-Coloma, University of Miami, Ohio
This workshop guides educators to examine and teach about the concept of race from four different approaches (pan-ethnic, intersectional, comparative, and transnational). It includes thematic strategies, unit planning examples, and curricular resources that educators can adopt and modify for their professional practice.

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