FLAVA Mentorship Training

The FLAVA Mentorship Program connects early career language educators to collaborate with master teachers in developing and expanding their skills. This is the recorded training session, from the workshop facilitated by Dr. Linda Szwabowski, World Language Instructional Specialist, Chesterfield County Public Schools. We will have a follow-up meet and greet on October 5th, at our annual FLAVA fall conference, at the Double Tree Hotel, in Williamsburg, Virginia.

2016-17 Workshop Recordings

Workshop 1: October 20^th – Foreign Language for All: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners  Presenters: Dr. Lisa A. Harris, Specialist for Foreign Languages at the Virginia Department of Education, and Dr. Teresa S. Lee, Educational specialist for the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) in the Office of Special Education Instructional Services.

Workshop 2: December 8^th – Yes, we are reading teachers! Presenter: Karen Heist. The session will focus on how we can help our students become proficient in a second language through reading. Topics such as: affect, attitude, motivation, comprehensibility, background knowledge, pre-reading, during reading and post-reading strategies will be discussed.  Potential problems and possible solutions to reading dilemmas will be shared.

Workshop 3: February 23^rd – Engaging All Language Learners at All Times. Presenter: Michaela Claudia-Nix, Program Specialist for World Languages and Work Force Development, Georgia Department of Education

Workshop 4: March 23^rd – Engaging Technology Tools for the Foreign Language Classroom, Presenter: Heidi Trude, selected French Future Leaders Fellowship program participant and Google Certified Educator Trainer

Workshop 5: May 4^th – Why is Interculturality at the Heart of Learning Languages? Presenter: Janet Parker, the College of William and Mary, Foreign Language Supervisor to undergraduate and graduate students in the world language cohort.

2015-2016 Workshop Recordings

Workshop 1: PALS 2.0: The Fairfax Interpersonal Speaking Assessment and Writing (22 October 2015) video 

Workshop 2: Ready, Set …. Wait (12 November 2015) video

Workshop 3: Personal, Engaging, Portable: Multimedia and Digital Stories in the World Language Classroom (4 February 2016) video

Workshop 4: Engaging Students with Language Learning through Technology: Focus on the Interpretive Mode (17 March 2016) video

2014-2015 Workshop Recordings

2013-2014 Workshop Recordings

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 4, Winter 2014, “Ten Take-Home Activities to Engage and Inspire your Language Students” Ginny Ogden describes practical activities and related websites that teachers can incorporate into their curriculum planning at all proficiency and learning levels. Recorded March 20, 2014. Click here.

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 3, Winter 2014, “Using the Target Language in Meaningful Contexts with Success” Ellen Mayock explains methods for using the target language to teach language, literature, culture and civilization, as well as encouraging the use of target language outside the classroom. Recorded February 27, 2014. Click here.

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 2, Fall  2013, “Making Technology Have Relevance in the Language Classroom:  Moving Toward Proficiency” Kathryn Murphy-Judy discusses infusing lessons with increasing digital proficiencies and applying these ideas across a broad range of language proficiency-based lessons. Recorded November 7, 2013. Click here.

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 1, Fall  2013, “Grading for Proficiency” Jennifer Carson tells how to update your gradebook to correlate with ACTFL proficiency guidelines and Virginia SOLs at Washington and Lee University on September 17, 2013.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ptPCBUEsE

2012-2013 Workshop Recordings

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 1, Winter 2013, “Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning: More Than Just a Concept” Dr. Lisa Harris discusses “Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning: More Than Just a Concept” at Washington and Lee University on February 7, 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4TAF-bZ2sc

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 2, Winter 2013, “Why Assessing Your Students Beings with Assessing Yourself” Sheila Cockey discusses Why Assessing Your Students Beings with Assessing Yourself at Washington and Lee University on February 28, 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1Sy6X_JP8

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 3, Winter 2013, “Planning for Success in the Language Classroom” Ms. Helen Small discusses “Planning for Success in the Language Classroom” at Washington and Lee University on March 26, 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co7nhhb858

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 4, Winter 2013, “Teaching the Lesson with Meaningful Input Strategies”
Dr. Sharon Hahnlen discusses “Teaching the Lesson with Meaningful Input Strategies” at Washington and Lee University in late April 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msks5RSOVp8[/wptabcontent]

2011-2012 Workshop Recordings

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 1, Fall 2011, “Tried and Proven Conversation-Building Activities”
Peter Vlaming discusses Tried and Proven Conversation-Building Activities for Language Learning at Washington and Lee University on October 11, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CjEnClVJxM&feature=plcp

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 2, Fall 2011, “Learning Activities for the Inhibited Language Learner” Norah Jones discusses Learning Activities for the Inhibited Language Learner at Washington and Lee University on November 10, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABv-2gMz6Zs&feature=plcp

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 3, Winter 2012, “Teaching Language With (Not Through) Film”
Katie Chenoweth discusses Teaching Language With (Not Through Film) at Washington and Lee University on January 19, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed9IMhIfkNs&feature=plcp

FLAVA-FLTWS Workshop 4, Spring 2012, “Kessel and Waggoner: True Differentiated Instruction” Presenters: Isidoro Kessel and Annette Waggoner. Although planning and delivering “one size fits all” instruction may be convenient for teachers, it does not meet the learning needs of students. The workshop helped to develop a greater understanding of differentiating instruction to analyze methods of assessing students as a means of designing instruction to increase student achievement and to establish a foundation for continued work on differentiation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqjaWhYMD4&feature=plcp