Fwd: Register for WAFLT Conference! Site is up!
Zona Karoliussen
From: <nor...@waflt.org>
Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Register for WAFLT Conference! Site is up!
To: <zona...@gmail.com>
Hello World Language colleagues,
The website is up!! WAFLT Registration is once again open. Thanks for your patience.
Scholarships and Grants updates below as well.
Deadlines: High School Student Workshop is Oct 5
Career Changers deadline is Oct 12
Registration forms and other details are on the website.
WAFLT CONFERENCE 2018
Red Lion Paper Valley Hotel
Appleton, Wisconsin
November 1-3, 2018
Unlock the Doors: Explore a World of Opportunities
Check out the pre-conference book and
download the conference app from
http://www.waflt.org/conferences-events/waflt-conference/
***Primary presenters or Executive Board members, please check for registration coupons-- login to waflt.org and click on “my coupons” and then copy & paste the code into the registration form.
Download the conference app to see all workshops, sessions, and events!
https://l.attendify.com/new-attendify-app/
Once you download the Attendify app, add the WAFLT18 conference to manage your workshop and session selections.
Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Red Lion Hotel Paper Valley at (920) 733-8000 or https://www.redlion.com/appleton and use the
room block conference code 1018WAFL
Just some of the incredible WAFLT Conference line-ups this year:
Special Pre-Conference Workshop Thursday
Pathway to Proficiency: Using Proficiency Benchmarks and Performance Indicators to Guide Instruction
Presenter: Laura Terrill
National ACTFL consultant
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Consider how the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements are used to focus performance expectations for unit and lesson learning targets from Novice to Advanced. Use proficiency benchmarks to identify what students can do and select appropriate strategies for moving students to the next range of performance. Work with strategies for maintaining target language use and making input comprehensible in the interpretive mode. Explore strategies that improve presentational skills as students engage in inquiry, elaboration, summarizing, revision and editing. Create effective pair and small group activities that lead to purposeful interactions among learners in the interpersonal mode. Use actionable feedback to improve student performance to strengthen communication skills.
Keynote: We Are All Advocates
Presenter: Ted Zarrow
2016 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, Latin teacher at Westwood High School in Westwood, MA
Friday afternoon in conjunction with WAFLT Awards
A world language education is civil right, and to deny a child access to world languages is to deny them access to a world class education! We are the key to this happening – the classroom teacher is the linchpin to successful language advocacy in this country – real language advocacy begins with what we teach and show our students every day. If we are to see languages on the rise, and if we are to lead with languages, we must all be advocates.
?The deadline for the WAFLT Scholarship for
Tomorrow’s Teachers is September 25.
??WAFLT Scholarship for Tomorrow’s Teachers
The Executive Board of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers is pleased to offer up to 10 scholarships available to college-level students preparing to become language teachers. The purpose of these scholarships is to provide teachers-in-training with financial assistance to attend the WAFLT Fall Conference. By attending the conference, teachers-in-training will have the opportunity to become familiar with WAFLT and the language specific professional organizations which also hold meetings during the conference, meet and interact with teachers already in the profession, become more familiar with trends in world language education and learn firsthand the benefits of membership in WAFLT.
Scholarship Requirements:
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College/university juniors, seniors or graduate students must be declared majors or minors in a language teaching program.
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Students must have completed or be currently enrolled in a language methods course.
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Students must join WAFLT before applying for the scholarship.
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Nominators (methods instructor or cooperating teacher) must be current members of WAFLT and must have been members for the two consecutive years preceding the nomination. They may only nominate up to 5 students each.
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At least one scholarship will be available for each of the languages.
--Career Changers--
Have you ever talked with someone who thought about coming into the teaching profession, but they weren't sure it was viable? It is! There are still many positions still open in WI! Please share this with them and encourage them to attend the Career Changers workshop this fall at WAFLT. Those who sign up receive special pricing!
World Language Career Changers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/160717457879167/
The 2018 Discover Languages Student Video & Student Postcard Contests:
Languages: Explore a World of Opportunities!
For All Students Enrolled in World Language Classes in Wisconsin
Elementary (PK – 5), Middle School (6 – 8), High School (9 – 12), Post-Secondary (Undergraduate)
Visit http://www.waflt.org and select Postcard or Video Contest from the Public Relations menu.
Submission Deadline for both contests: October 1st, 2018
Encourage your students to participate and…
Help Wisconsin Discover Languages and Discover the World!
WAFLT Mission
To promote, strengthen and facilitate the teaching of life-long learning of world languages and cultures in schools and communities to meet the needs of our increasingly interdependent world.
WAFLT has been serving Wisconsin teachers since 1913 and is one of the largest state language associations in the country. Over 1700 teachers from Wisconsin and its neighboring states attended the annual conference in Appleton.