2003 KFLA CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

  
  Wichita Marriott  
 

Thursday, November 6

  

5:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Pre-conference Workshop "Colorful Connections, Part 3" for Kansas standards cadre training.

  

Friday, November 7

  
Exhibitors 2003 Exhibitors were: Blue Valley School District #229, EMC/Paradigm Publishing Co., Glencoe/McGraw Hill, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, McDougal Littell, Multimedia Learning Systems, Olathe School District, Prentice Hall, Ten Thousand Villages, Universal Highways, Inc. Exhibits were open all day Friday and until noon on Saturday. We sincerely thank these participants for supporting our conference.  

8:00 a.m.

Registration opened, Wichita Marriott, NW lobby

  
9:00 a.m.

Sessions
Projects & TPRS over ITV (L. Wylie & K. Wilson)
Instruction and Assessment: CSC Extension Workshop (T. Sildus)
FL/SL Class Size and Program Adjustments - A Research Review (L. Alexander)
The Golden Connection (N. Bergen)
Yan-Koloba, a team-building game (E. Ngomsi)

  
10:00 a.m. Exhibits opened in the atrium  
10:30 a.m.

Sessions
La Francophonie (MA Schroeger)
Creating Winning Students (C. Kopsa)
Closing the Achievement Gap for ELLs in Kansas Schools (M. Stuart)
Panel Discussion for Beginning Teachers (M. Wade & D. Withers)
It Takes "Tú" to Tango (C. McMahon)

  
11:30 a.m. Box lunch and exhibits in the atrium  
1:00-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Session: "Planning Backward? Thematic Planning with a Standards Focus"
- Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg

The National Standards and the ACTFL K-12 Student Performance Guidelines have helped to focus curriculum planning on performance tasks. In this workshop teachers will revisit thematic planning from the perspective of Standards and Performances, and share ideas for developing and revising their own thematic units.

  The keynote presenters are co-authors of a popular K-8 methods book, Languages and Children: Making the Match, which has just been revised for its third edition. To purchase it, visit the AATG Online Store and click on "New Materials" You will find it near the bottom of the list.
2:30-2:45 p.m. Refreshment / exhibit break  
4:00 p.m. Wine and cheese reception in the atrium (exhibit area)  
6:00p.m. Supper individually or with AATs  
7:00-9:00 p.m. AATSP, AATF, KATG, AATJ meetings  
     
 

Saturday, November 8

  

7:30-10:00 a.m.

Registration Open

  

7:00-9:00 a.m.

Light continental breakfast in the atrium

 

8:30 a.m.

Sessions
A Standards Refresher (J. Michaud & P. Bachelor)
Making Art Come Alive in the Spanish Classroom (E. Gregg)
FLEX: Building a Positive Foundation (J. Dixon & E. Cordova)
GRAM ACTIVA: Teaching Grammar the Active Way (J. Polumbus)
Using Authentic Spanish songs in the Classroom (C. Loeffler)
Manipulatives in the Spanish Classroom (D. Hoyt-Reed)

  

9:30 a.m.

Refreshment / exhibit break

  

10:00 a.m.

Sessions
Implementing the Standards: Curriculum Design and Assessment (J. Michaud & P. Bachelor)
National Board Certification - Is it Right for You? (K. Tritt)
An Alphabetical Tour through Oaxaca (M. Mawhirter, L. Salmeron, J. Bodecker)
Cinco de Mayo (M. Porterfield)
El Dia de los Muertos: From Oaxaca to the Classroom (E. Vallejos)
Classroom Instruction that Works: Foregin Language Adaptations (C. Jochum)

  

11:30 a.m.

Awards Banquet

 

1:00-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Session: "Something Worth Saying: Activating Student Language Use in the Target Language Classroom" - Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg (see picture above)

Surrounding students with oral and written language is only the first step in building a classroom environment to facilitate communication. This workshop will help teachers to develop meaningful oral and written tasks that encourage student use of the target language for interpersonal and presentational communication.

  
See the notation above to order the third edition of Languages and Children: Making the Match, by Curtain and Dahlberg.


last updated on August 19, 2007