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“Interviews in the Target Language: Making Connections with the Community”
The focus of this session is a project to help students improve their skills in the Spanish language and gain cultural insights through video-taped interactions with native speakers of the language in the community. Participants in the session will share ideas for adapting the project according to the availability of native speakers, the language level of their students and the age of the learners.
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Dr. Cynthia Brooks Doutrich
York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA


“Planning and Implementing Interactive Instruction Across the Three Modes”
How do we make the Three Modes of Communication “come alive” in classrooms? How do we connect authentic tasks in Integrated Performance Assessment a unit of instruction? In this session, we share a unit of study designed to answer these questions. Attendees will experience a simulation of selected activities across the modes of communication; presented in English with examples in Spanish.
Presentation
Mr. Francis J. Troyan
Instruction and Learning, University of Pittsburgh
Ms. Ashley Hellmann
The Falk Laboratory School, Pittsburgh

“Do You Speak Web 2.0?”
Come and get immersed in a virtual experience with innovative uses of web 2.0 in the classroom! Presenters will provide an overview of a leadership project about online professional development, explaining its scope, sequence and purpose. Teachers in the project will be invited to join the session, remotely, to speak web 2.0 with the audience. Attendees will also benefit from hands-on practice with online speaking activities.
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Ms. Silvina M. Orsatti, NECTFL Sans/Mead Leadership Fellow
The Kiski School, Saltsburg, PA
Dr. Frank B. Brooks
Indiana University of Pennsylvania


Total Physical Response Teaching in the Primary Grades
This session will explain why Total Physical Response (TPR) should be used in teaching foreign language both in general and moreover, why it should specifically be used with the primary grades. Tips on the vocabulary, methodology and application of TPR will be discussed. Examples will be shown that highlight the “physical” aspect of TPR.
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Jonathan Harris
St. Gabriel Consolidated School
Cincinnati, OH
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