ECIS ESLMT Conference 2017

As students across all levels of schooling engage in learning across the curriculum, they are expected to comprehend and compose a range of complex texts of all kinds. These texts can vary from spoken texts of the teacher to the multimodal texts of their textbooks to the multiplicity of texts they have to produce in response to the tasks set for them. One response to having ESL students in the classroom is to simplify difficult texts so that they are more accessible to ESL students. In doing this, we end up limiting the capacity of those same students to comprehend and in turn compose more complex texts required by the curriculum. In this workshop, we will explore how we can support ESL students in accessing the meanings of this complex textual landscape by showing how these texts work to make meaning. We will draw on a range of complex texts from across the curriculum and show how we can open up the meaning to all students by making explicit the workings of both the language and the visuals through an explicit focus on the ‘grammars’ of both those meaning making systems. The activities suggested will be considered within the framework of a rich teaching and learning cycle that moves through four key stages: setting the context, modelling and deconstruction, joint construction and independent construction.

Schedule for the day:
8:30am: Buses pick up attendees from the Tivoli Hotel entrance. 

9:00-9:45: Arrive at CIS campus and visit the registration table, coffee available.  Tours around the new CIS campus

9:45-11:30am: Session 1 in your pre-conference room

11:30-12:00pm: Morning break with some light snack and coffee

12:00-1:30pm: Session 2

1:30-2:30pm: Lunch in the CIS Nordhavn canteen​

2:30-3:45pm: Session 3

3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon break with some dessert and coffee​

4:00-5:00pm: Session 4

5:00-6:00pm: Early evening cocktail event in the CIS canteen (free drinks and tapas) 

6:15pm: Buses pick up attendees and speakers from the CIS Nordhavn entrance.

6:45pm: Arrival back at the Tivoli Hotel

Collaboration is emerging as a new norm in today’s schools. When educators plan, teach and inquire together, we model the 21st century learning skills we hope to develop in our students. Participants in this session will explore how professional collaboration supports student learning, and how WIDA’s asset-based approach can enhance co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing to serve multilingual learners. Together we will examine the collaboration cycle through a lens of integrated language and content learning, while also connecting collaborative practices to professional learning. Participants will also be introduced to the WIDA framework and leave with tools to initiate new partnerships and deepen existing co-teaching relationships.

Schedule for the day:
8:30am: Buses pick up attendees from the Tivoli Hotel entrance. 

9:00-9:45: Arrive at CIS campus and visit the registration table, coffee available.  Tours around the new CIS campus

9:45-11:30am: Session 1 in your pre-conference room

11:30-12:00pm: Morning break with some light snack and coffee

12:00-1:30pm: Session 2

1:30-2:30pm: Lunch in the CIS Nordhavn canteen​

2:30-3:45pm: Session 3

3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon break with some dessert and coffee​

4:00-5:00pm: Session 4

5:00-6:00pm: Early evening cocktail event in the CIS canteen (free drinks and tapas) 

6:15pm: Buses pick up attendees and speakers from the CIS Nordhavn entrance.

6:45pm: Arrival back at the Tivoli Hotel

 

Do you have students at many different levels of language acquisition in the same class?  Do some of them sound fluent, but struggle to comprehend complex texts or produce grade level written work? This interactive pre-conference session will provide practical strategies for differentiating content lessons and scaffolds for students at different stages of language development.  You will leave with an understanding of language acquisition and actionable steps for supporting students in content and language classes.

Objectives:

• Experience and analyze differentiation strategies in model lessons.

• Identify the academic language demands of texts and coursework.

• Identify students’ strengths and language development needs for different classroom tasks and assignments.

• Develop scaffolds and supports in each language domain (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) for students at different levels of language acquisition including visuals, manipulatives, graphic organizers, cooperative learning structures, and sentence frames.
  
  

  Schedule for the day:
  8:30am: Buses pick up attendees from the Tivoli Hotel entrance. 

  9:00-9:45: Arrive at CIS campus and visit the registration table, coffee available.  Tours around the new CIS campus

  9:45-11:30am: Session 1 in your pre-conference room

  11:30-12:00pm: Morning break with some light snack and coffee

  12:00-1:30pm: Session 2

  1:30-2:30pm: Lunch in the CIS Nordhavn canteen​

  2:30-3:45pm: Session 3

  3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon break with some dessert and coffee​

  4:00-5:00pm: Session 4
  
  5:00-6:00pm: Early evening cocktail event in the CIS canteen (free drinks and tapas) 

  6:15pm: Buses pick up attendees and speakers from the CIS Nordhavn entrance.

  6:45pm: Arrival back at the Tivoli Hotel

"Learning to speak another's language means taking one's place in the human community.  It means reaching out to others across cultural and linguistic boundaries.  Language is far more than a system to be explained.  It is our most important link to the world around us.  Language is culture in motion.  It is people interacting with people.” -Savignon (1983)

Effective learning is an inherently social and highly-connected process, and nowhere is that more evident than the language classroom. Technology can provide us with a powerful vehicle for connecting us and our understandings across languages. Used creatively, it can allow for significant choice and certainly amplify our individual voices. The goal of this hands-on workshop is to explore technology that will enhance your classroom learning community.  We will actively explore tools and strategies that can be used to engage and support students within a language-learning context.  This workshop is appropriate for teachers of all ages as all activities can be differentiated to work across different grade bands. As this is a hands-on, practical workshop, participants must bring a laptop or tablet that can connect to the internet."

Schedule for the day:
8:30am: Buses pick up attendees from the Tivoli Hotel entrance. 

9:00-9:45: Arrive at CIS campus and visit the registration table, coffee available.  Tours around the new CIS campus

9:45-11:30am: Session 1 in your pre-conference room

11:30-12:00pm: Morning break with some light snack and coffee

12:00-1:30pm: Session 2

1:30-2:30pm: Lunch in the CIS Nordhavn canteen​

2:30-3:45pm: Session 3

3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon break with some dessert and coffee​

4:00-5:00pm: Session 4

5:00-6:00pm: Early evening cocktail in the CIS canteen (free drinks and tapas) 

6:15pm: Buses pick up attendees and speakers from the CIS Nordhavn entrance.

6:45pm: Arrival back at the Tivoli Hotel

TPR Storytelling (TPRS) workshop outline:

TPR storytelling (TPRS) is a method for teaching foreign languages that has thus far been shown to be profoundly successful with students of almost all ages and all abilities. It focuses on language acquisition through Comprehensible Input. During this one-day workshop, you will acquire some Mandarin in a fun way, experience the magic of TPR storytelling, learn the 3 steps of TPR storytelling and practice some TPR storytelling strategies.  Dr. Stephen Krashen will be joining this workshop as a special guest.

Special guest: Dr. Stephen Krashen, an enthusiastic student of Mandarin.  He will have a supporting role in the presentation, commenting on TPR Storytelling practice and how it relates to current research and theory.

TPR Storytelling (TPRS) workshop includes

A Mandarin Chinese demo

Theory and research about Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Total Physical Response (TPR)

The three steps of TPR Storytelling

TPR Storytelling teaching strategies

Schedule for the day:
8:30am: Buses pick up attendees from the Tivoli Hotel entrance. 

9:00-9:45: Arrive at CIS campus and visit the registration table, coffee available.  Tours around the new CIS campus

9:45-11:30am: Session 1 in your pre-conference room

11:30-12:00pm: Morning break with some light snack and coffee

12:00-1:30pm: Session 2

1:30-2:30pm: Lunch in the CIS Nordhavn canteen​

2:30-3:45pm: Session 3

3:45-4:00pm: Afternoon break with some dessert and coffee​

4:00-5:00pm: Session 4

5:00-6:00pm: Early evening cocktail event in the CIS canteen (free drinks and tapas) 

6:15pm: Buses pick up attendees and speakers from the CIS Nordhavn entrance.

6:45pm: Arrival back at the Tivoli Hotel