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Southern Conference On Language Teaching – SCOLT

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Presenters Include

Kristy Placido, Teri Wiechart , Anabelle Williamson, Jon Cowart, Carrie Toth, and many more inspiring CI teachers.

Mitten CI features CI presentations, Open Coaching, great food, collegiality, and giveaways for teachers!
Will apply for Michigan SCHEC credits (more coming soon).

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Registration is now open for the MittenCI Conference, April 21st-22nd, 2023. Mitten CI will be held at Saline High School on Friday, April 21st from 4:30-7:00 and Saturday, April 22nd from...

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Teaching ideas and sharing by several language teachers (of Chinese, Spanish, and German) who teach based on comprehensible input.

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Bryce Hedstrom - Comprehensible Input Materials & Training

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Workshops & Schedule

Why Workshops by Bryce Hedstrom?

Bryce teaches teachers how to teach with principles and methods that work. This is not theory for Bryce, he teaches teachers with what works with today's students-techniques that are grounded in the latest brain research and are combined with current best practice in education, all mixed with the insights that only a successful and experienced teacher can apply.

Bryce offers a variety of valuable workshops to train teachers in your school, district, or region. See the descriptions below and let's make arrangements to have him present to your teachers.
Email: contact@brycehedstrom.com
Teacher Testimonials

Click here to see what teachers across the country are saying about Bryce's workshops, in-service training and presentations!

Bryce's teacher training sessions are valuable for all teachers. His workshops are divided into learning about the theory, explaining the ideas, modeling the techniques and allowing participants time to practice the skills.

"As part of Bryce's workshop on understanding TPRS and reading in the target language, he taught a demo lesson with real kids. Kids he didn't know. It was incredible how quickly and easily he gained rapport with the students. They felt at ease with him even with 20 language teachers observing. We observed his calm, measured approach to personalization and story-asking up close. Observing a master teacher helped me apply the tips and tricks we learned in his workshop. It helped me improve my pacing. I felt like it gave me permission to explore how to adapt the most effective CI strategies to my own personality and style."
-Grant Boulanger, St. Paul, MN
* MCTLC (Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures) Teacher of the Year
* CSCTFL (Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Teacher of the Year
* ACTFL Teacher of the Year Finalist

Handouts & Slides

Workshop handouts and presentation slides are found in the Free Stuff section.

INCREASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Learn how to capture student attention and keep them highly involved in their learning-all in the target language. Participants will get practical tips, activities and assignments to engage even beginning students using the TL. Attendees will get the feel for activities by participating in them and practicing during this hands-on workshop. Keys points:

How to ask questions that will spark engaging classroom discussions

Templates for class discussions at all levels

How to take advantage of natural student inclinations

Techniques to get students to explain their thinking

The role of rapport and teacher body language in student engagement

The secret to keeping engaging conversations going

Techniques to encourage all students to contribute-and all to listen

How to start it on Monday and keep it going the rest of the year

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT WITH RESPECT & CARE

Learn how to keep order in the classroom with strategies based on positive relationships and group dynamics rather than on force or threats. Participants will get practical tips, activities and assignments to engage even beginning students using the TL. Attendees will get the feel for activities by participating in them and practicing during this hands-on workshop. Keys points:

How to begin and end a class

How to preemptively establish routines (before the students do it)

Getting them on your side with classrooms jobs

The secret of getting students invested in making the classroom run well

Techniques for showing and getting respect

How we can show care without getting walked on

Mixing it up to keep the class fresh

MINDSET WORKSHOP/KEYNOTE

The concept of Mindset, developed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, has the power to change the way students react to challenges in your classroom. Learn why and how to implement Mindset techniques to help all students develop perseverance and achieve their potential. In this fascinating and immensely helpful workshop attendees will learn:

The difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset

the "Mindset Rules" we commonly see in our students

Why and How to teach students about the way the brain functions

How to motivate students to get the quality practice they need to be successful

How giving permission to fail helps students to succeed

The power of ...yet

Practical tips for implementing Mindset principles in your classroom

Time to practice, with coaching

TEACHING WITH TPRS/CI WORKSHOP

Teaching with Comprehensible Input is more of an approach than a method. It is a mixture of science and art. Learn why and how to begin changing your mind about how students learn L2 and begin to develop your skills in this workshop. Attendees will learn:

The research behind Comprehensible Input-Based teaching

The 3 steps to teaching with storytelling

Why you do not have to teach with storytelling everyday

How to build student confidence and trust

Personalizing

How to teach reading

Asking questions

What to teach

Differentiating your teaching with Bloom's Taxonomy

See a handout that corresponds to this presentation here: https://www.brycehedstrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/THE_BASICS_OF_TPRS2.pdf

TPRS IN UPPER LEVEL CLASSES (Levels 2 - AP)

Learn to keep the Comprehensible Input-based approach working beyond level I. In this workshop you will learn:

How to teach required grammar with stories

How to develop "classroom banter" for confident, spontaneous L2 speakers

How to get students to pay attention long enough to acquire through personalization

How to get repetitions and keep class interesting

The why's and how's of teaching reading

How to teach students to write informal and formal essays

How to use ACTFL's three speaking modes in the upper levels

How to prepare students for the AP Language exam

STORIES WORTH RE-TELLING: How to Teach with Jokes

Jokes are mini stories that people like to tell and hear again and again. Using a good joke is an effective way to deliver comprehensible input in a TPRS® classroom because jokes are inherently interesting and can stand up to re-telling. Jokes also often have simple vocabulary, bare-bones language, which can be easily adapted to fit varying student comprehension levels. Workshop attendees will learn:

How to pick a winner joke

How to adapt jokes as stories.

How to stretch out a joke without giving away the punchline

How to tell jokes slowly... while still keeping student attention.

Participants will have time to practice storytelling and joke-telling with their colleagues to develop the skills. Examples in Spanish.

STORIES WORTH RE-TELLING: How to Teach with Legends

Authentic folktales and legends give students glimpses into the essence of a culture and its people. In many ways these tales are the marrow of the history, values, desires, and taboos of a culture. But there is no need to wait to give students this gift to our students-even novice level students can begin to understand stories in the target language, retell them in their own words and begin to authentically interpret their meanings.

Specific techniques for making an authentic tale comprehensible to even lower level students and then engaging them through personalization and re-telling at increasingly complex levels will be modeled, analyzed and experienced by participants, who will then practice these skills with one another with a legend from their own language and culture. Workshop attendees will learn how to:

Pick an authentic folktale or legend

Simplify the story

Tell the story

"Ask the story" to increase the complexity level

Re-tell the story with more detail-begin to tell it the way a storyteller tells it

Interpret a story with students

GET THEM READING!

Reading is the fastest way to learn another language. This workshop will show you why and how to start a reading program. Most teachers are sold on the idea of reading and excited to begin reading with their students, but they face difficulties carrying out their plans. Here are teacher-tested ideas that have had long-term success at all levels. Attendees will come away with a framework for organizing a reading program and many specific ideas for implementing it. Teachers will practice personalized questioning while reading.

What to Read?

How to Organize Reading Materials

Scheduling Reading

Types of Reading: SSR, whole class, kindergarten reading, reading outside of class, on-line reading

Assessing Reading

Maintaining the Enthusiasm

KEEP THEM READING!

This is a follow-up to the "Get Them Reading" workshop. Have you ever tried to start a reading program, but shortly found it sputtering? This workshop will present practical techniques and tips for keeping students reading and wanting to read including: free reading, whole class reading, acting, Kindergarten reading, discussing reading, reading outside of class, reading logs, reading reports and catch-up reading. Handouts and forms will be provided with examples in Spanish.

DELIVERING CULTURAL CONTENT WITH COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

Learn how to begin using the target language to teach authentic cultural content in your classroom. We can deliver C.I. through more than just stories. Learn to use geography, legends, history, current events, and biographies at all levels in the target language. Learn how to:

Make cultural lessons comprehensible for all students

Keep students actively involved

Assess student understanding

Lower the affective filter

Use higher order thinking skills

Make connections to other content areas

How to Write Effective Embedded Readings with Authentic Legends in the TL

Legends have staying power because they are interesting stories that touch people across the generations. Using authentic legends can be interesting, comprehensible and cultural- a rare and coveted triple play in the classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to:

Choose the right legend

Pare down a legend and build it back up

Add details and drama at each step-with the right vocabulary

Get students comfortable with unanswered questions

Use higher order thinking skills-even in a 20 word story

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$129.00

I have a solution for teachers who want to learn to teach using highly effective comprehensible input methods but cannot take time away from the classroom to travel to a workshop for the professional development that they need. I have collected resources, filmed myself at workshops demonstrating key techniques and arranged it all in a logical sequence to make learning each skill easy for the teacher new to this approach. All together there are 50 short chapters spread out over 7 modules with more than 70 videos. Best of all, unlike a live workshop, you will be able to return and watch the demonstrations again and again until you can do them confidently in your own classroom. Still not clear? We have an active Facebook support group and I remain closely attentive by email so that you can experience your best teaching year yet.
Do you just want the book for $29.99?

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It is training, not textbooks nor materials, but skilled professional development that is absolutely the most important variable that determines the success of a teacher new to comprehensible input methods.
New members also receive a copy of my new book, The Two Conversation Classroom. This book has every insight about teaching a second language that I have struggled to uncover over the past 20 years- 276 pages of hard-won classroom wisdom!

When you register you get access for a year to the online workshop. You will find materials that you can use immediately in your classes, videos and short essays while you learn the skills at your own pace. Best of all, unlike a live workshop, you will be able to return and watch the demonstration again and again until you can do it confidently in your own classroom. Still not clear? We have an active Facebook support group and I remain closely attentive by email so that you can experience your best teaching year yet.

This approach led my high-poverty Title 1 public high school to turn around from a near 0% pass rate to a 100% pass rate on both AP and IB exams.

You not only get access to videos showing how to do each technique, but you get access to Mike's maravillas, movie talk videos, detailed instructions to making One Word Images, picture talks, a library of original easy to read short stories in French, Spanish & German, suggestions to help you use authentic videos and TV series while remaining comprehensible and so much more.

You get expert advice on the nuts and bolts of running a CI classroom, including classroom management, getting buy-in from parents, setting up your room, the first days of school, how to set up your grade book, how to plan your lessons from day to day as well as long-term planning for the whole year and longer. You'll learn the best way to give exit quizzes and fluency writes and how to build your class-created library easily (without tons of added work for you) so that even your lowest-level readers will have something to read during the pleasure reading sessions.

Full student access to eBook novels that I have written in French, German, Spanish & Portuguese are included for each teacher account.

There is an entire module designed to help you provide the best learning experience possible for your heritage language learners, or students who speak Spanish at home.

Build the classroom library of your dreams and confidently use it to differentiate instruction with my recommendations on browsing strategies, powerful display and how to build a class culture that loves reading.

I also include substitute plans that you can even use when you are in class but just need a quiet day!

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