Professional Learning Experiences
Although we are World Language educators we also teach graduate-level K-12 pedagogy courses. Therefore, we can adjust any professional learning to meet your needs. We specialize in collaborative learning, kinesthetic learning structures and equity-minded spaces. Check out our existing learning experiences below.
Kinesthetic Structures
Revitalize Language Learning: Dynamic Moves for Secondary and Higher Education
Acquire four practical movement-based techniques that infuse excitement into language instruction and foster dynamic classroom interactions in high school and college classes.
Enhance language proficiency development by aligning the movement-based strategies with the World Readiness Standards and the three modes of communication.
Leave with insights into incorporating personalized learning approaches, creating meaningful connections, and optimizing student engagement.
Active Learning Strategies
Experience a variety of active learning strategies that will allow them to design their instruction to personalize student learning through movement and collaboration.
Brain Breaks & Kinesthetic Learning Structures
Discover the science behind brain breaks.
Participate in several kinesthetic learning structures that can be immediately implemented into your classroom.
Revitalize Language Learning: Dynamic Moves for Multilingual Learners
Acquire six practical movement-based techniques that infuse excitement into language instruction and foster dynamic interactions in English as a second language classrooms.
Enhance language proficiency development by aligning movement-based strategies with the needs of multilingual learners.
Leave with insights into incorporating personalized learning approaches, creating meaningful connections, and optimizing student engagement
Move, Collaborate and Engage!
Experience a variety of collaborative and kinesthetic activities that will allow them to design their instruction.
Learn unique methods that promote mastery of the three modes of communication.
Connect new engagement strategies with current curriculum.
Moving Through the Modes
Experience a variety of collaborative and kinesthetic activities that will allow participants to design their instruction.
Learn unique methods that promote mastery of the three modes of communication.
Connect new engagement strategies with current curriculum.
The Collaborative Classroom
Enthusiastic Engagement
Learn how to engage students to work collaboratively.
Understand the importance of brain breaks.
Participate in kinesthetic learning structures.
Create/modify their ideal lesson plan by integrating collaborative tasks, brain breaks and kinesthetic learning structures.
It’s Just Good Teahing - An IB Approach
Explore the IB Approaches to Learning and Approaches to Teaching.
Experience interactive activities aimed towards building the whole child.
Preparing your Students for Success in the World Language Program – Through Cooperative Learning
Learn how to successfully engage students to work cooperatively and collaboratively in the WCL classroom.
Empathetic Teaching for Immigrant Students: Unlocking Language Proficiency Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Learn about current demographic and linguistic trends in Anne Arundel County, AACPS, and AACC.
Explore the five stages of second-language acquisition in order to understand and support the unique challenges of immigrant students navigating English as an additional language.
Discover how targeted vocabulary instruction (key terms) benefits not only English language learners but enhances learning experiences for all students.
Gain insights into culturally responsive teaching methods.
Engagement Revolution - Engaging All Students
Expand your toolbox of cooperative learning and engagement strategies that can be tailored to any content area.
Discuss how active engagement strategies lay the foundation for creating a class community where diversity, equity, and inclusion are celebrated.
Participate in strategies that can be used to engage dually enrolled, traditional, and non-traditional students.
Engagement “Behind the Screen”
Recognize the power of year-round class cohesion activities.
Experience a variety of collaborative structures that will engage students in learning in a virtual setting.
Participate in kinesthetic activities that can be done in a virtual setting.
Formulate a list of class cohesion, collaborative, and kinesthetic activities that can be used to facilitate learning in the virtual setting.
Develop a list of research that I can share with my students about why we are engaging in these types of activities.
Equity-Minded Spaces
Just Voices: Equitable Teaching Practices in the World Language Classroom
Implement three innovative teaching strategies showcased during the session
Integrate social justice topics into their language instruction.
Enhance student engagement in their classrooms through a pedagogy of voice.
Creating Change Agents
Understand the role literacy plays in your content.
Discover Gholdy Muhammad’s Culturally & Historically Responsive Literacy Framework.
Create both a lesson and a unit outline based on Muhammad’s five learning pursuits.
Supporting Equity Initiatives through Movement & Collaboration
Discover new engagement strategies to use with current curriculum.
Understand how equitable curriculum and teaching strategies can connect to our current classroom practices.
Equity Pedagogy that Leads to Prejudice Reduction: A Ripple Effect
Ripple #1: EMPATHY can be cultivated through equity pedagogy.
Ripple #2: Prejudice reduction is rooted in ENGAGEMENT that values every student’s unique voice.
Ripple #3: Celebration of DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES can be organically integrated into content.
Ripple #4: Students should be offered opportunities to CHOOSE their learning paths and/or how they show they are learning.
Ripple #5: Equity pedagogy can be LAYERED on top of existing content.
Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices
Discover new engagement strategies to use with current curriculum.
Understand how equitable curriculum and teaching strategies can connect to our current classroom practices.
DEIA Ripple Effect of World Languages
Learn about how they can organically integrate DEIA into their language courses.
Celebrate the work they are already doing to integrate DEIA and collaborate with colleagues to learn how they can be purposeful about doing more.
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