ACTFL’s Second Fall Webinar Series: Enhancing Literacy - Improving Learners’ Proficiency

From http://www.actfl.org

ACTFL’s second series of fall webinars will be starting soon. Here is the lineup:

Enhancing Literacy - Improving Learners’ Proficiency
Presenter: Laura Terrill, independent consultant and former coordinator for World Languages & ELL

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
3:30pm – 4:30pm ET
Understanding Content: Teaching Strategies for the Interpretive Mode
This webinar will focus on building students’ interpretive skills in reading, listening and viewing. Emphasis will be placed on the use of authentic texts related to thematic curriculum units. Participants will consider how to make authentic text comprehensible by using before, during and after strategies that develop their students’ literacy skills. Appropriate strategies for assessing individual student comprehension will also be shared.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
3:30pm – 4:30pm ET
Creating Content: Teaching Strategies for the Presentational Mode
This webinar will consider the types of tasks that students are typically given to develop their ability to present in written and oral formats. Easy-to-implement strategies designed to help students articulate their ideas effectively while advancing a student’s proficiency level will be shared. Strategies for providing effective feedback while minimizing the paperwork often associated with the presentational mode will also be considered.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
3:30pm – 4:30pm ET
Discussing Content: Teaching Strategies for the Interpersonal Mode
This webinar will present ways teachers can create lessons that build toward real-life, unrehearsed communication so that students at all levels are prepared to communicate in meaningful ways. Participants will consider strategies designed to maximize use of the target language and learn effective classroom management strategies essential for interactive classrooms. Easily adapted activities for working with language learners at novice, intermediate and advanced levels will be shared.

Learn more details at http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=5278
Register at https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=27040&