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Events in Relation to The Ohio State University
Friday, SESSION 3, 11:20am-12:10pm
Teaching French Like the French: Applying French L1 Teaching Strategies to the French L2 Classroom
Presenter: Nicole Re Hanlon, Ohio State University
Learning French is hard, even for young French learners. By looking at strategies French language teachers and French parents use to help their own learners properly acquire their native language, this session will provide teachers working with beginning-level French students authentic activities to help review grammar and culture in the foreign language classroom by suggesting methods and activities used with young natve French speakers.
French, Middle School, High School, Classroom Teachers
Teaching Practices and Strategies
Friday,, SESSION 6, 4:10pm-5:00pm
CAAP Program at OSU
Presenter: Rebecca Bias, The Ohio State University
This session will describe and promote the CAAP Program (Collaborative, Articulation and Assessment Project) at Ohio State. The program is provided FREE to all Ohio high school instructors of Spanish, French, German and Chinese. CAAP provides early assessment exams in the spring of each year for all third level students based on the four skill areas, as well as professional development resources, technology workshops and online practice exams.
English, French, German,Spanish, Chinese, High School, Classroom Teachers, Teacher Trainers, Supervisor,
Assessing the Three Modes of Communication
Friday,, SESSION 6, 4:10pm-5:00pm
Mentoring Assessment Literacy in the Era of OTES
Presenters: Francis J. Troyan, PhD, The Ohio State University; Marie Hoffman Hurt, Pickerington North High School; Lizzie Gordon, The Ohio State University
This session will present the collaborative assessment mentoring between a mentor teacher, a master of education intern, and a university faculty. Framed within the statewide Student Learning Objective (SLO) Initiative, the presentation will outline the ways in which the university teacher preparation activities aligned with the mentor teacher's SLO design focused on Integrated Performance Assessment and backward design. Best practices will be shared and recommendations made for mentor-intern partnerships in foreign language teacher preparation that considers the work of OTES.
Saturday, SESSION 7, 8:00am-8:50am
Shift Happens! Leaving Behind the 20th Century Paradigm for 21st Century Research-Based Best Practices
Presenter: Ryan Wertz, Ohio Department of Education; Francis J. Troyan, PhD, The Ohio State University
This is a time of unparalleled change in K-12 world language teaching nationwide. New educator evaluation systems coupled with a realization that past methods have failed to produce learners with higher levels of language proficiency are requiring WL teachers to implement modern, research-based best practices in communicative language teaching to ensure an optimal learning experience with measureable results for their students. This session will provide an overview of the best practices required by Ohio’s New Learning Standards for K-12 World Languages and OTES as well as ideas for their effective implementation.
Saturday, SESSION 9, 10:30am-11:20am
What FL Teachers Think, Know, Believe, and Do Related to Student Assessment
Presenter: Carolyn Shemwell Kaplan, The Ohio State University
Researchers have acknowledged a need for increased study of FL teachers' thinking and practices related to student assessment (Davison, 2004; Yin, 2010). This session reports preliminary findings from research examining what four Ohio FL teachers from distinct high schools think, know, believe, and do when assessing their students. Session attendees will learn how these teachers are addressing the "changing times" in their assessment practices.
English, French,Spanish, High School, Post-Secondary, Classroom Teachers, Teacher Trainers, Supervisor,
Assessing the Three Modes of Communication
