Using AI Tools and Strategies to Advance Target Language Proficiency (Grades 6-12) Presented by Daryl Boeckers Outstanding World Language Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for World Language Teachers, Department Heads and World Language Administrators Serving Grades 6-12

• Highly practical strategies for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in your world language classes
• Timesaving AI tips and protocols specifically for world language teachers and learners
• Scaffolded approaches to coach ethical student use of AI tools
• New and innovative ideas for using AI to engage students in learning and create authentic and personalized assessments of student learning

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay in our world of teaching and learning. AI generates human-like responses to natural language input making it capable of answering questions, completing prompts, understanding images, creating tables, and engaging in conversation. Just imagine the potential benefits for World Language classrooms! This NEW seminar will go beyond showing you what AI is by providing dozens of tools and resources on HOW to use practical AI tools, techniques, and strategies in your own classroom. In this seminar, experienced world language teacher Daryl Boeckers shares the best ways to use AI to promote language acquisition and help you and your students to develop essential future-ready skills.

Explore how to use AI to quickly create more engaging and differentiated world language lessons; develop and use more meaningful and relevant assessments on the spot; foster greater student innovation, motivation, and critical thinking; improve your classroom efficiency and productivity; and much more! Learn how you can use AI emerging technologies to help your students significantly improve their language skills and embrace the latest ideas for what learning a language looks like. Daryl will share his experiences and best practices with you so you can immediately adapt these ideas to your classroom – any age group, any language, and any language level.

You will leave this seminar with an extensive world language digital resource handbook and dozens of practical strategies and timesaving AI tools and protocols you can use immediately to improve student success in all your world language classes.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools and Practical Strategies for World Language Instruction
   Discover essential and practical ways to harness AI tools in your grades 6-12 World Language classes … Learn the best, most useful AI tools that support language learning
2. Innovative Ways to Integrate Emerging AI Technology Into Your Language Curriculum
   Explore innovative new AI tools that you can easily integrate to enhance the language learning experience for your students
3. Improve Student Engagement With AI Tools
   By incorporating AI tools into language learning, you can create more interactive and engaging classroom experiences which can boost motivation, engagement, and success
4. How to Use AI to Create More Personalized Learning for Your World Language Students
   Create more personalized learning experiences for each student using AI generated individualized feedback, resources, and recommendations for additional activities
5. Quickly Create More Engaging Language Lessons and Learning Activities
   Spark students' interests in language learning using AI tools to create compelling language lessons … Easily construct fun and engaging learning opportunities with just a few clicks with the helping hand of AI
6. Use AI to More Easily Differentiate Your World Language Instruction
   Learn how to quickly and easily differentiate to build on students' strengths and address their unique needs … Quickly customize and strengthen your existing curriculum using AI and design interventions for second scoops of learning
7. Enhance Your World Language Assessments and Evaluations With AI Tools
   Let AI provide valuable data on your students' performance, identify their areas of strength and needs, and help you make more informed teaching moves … Create multimodal assessments with intentional checkpoints
8. Decrease Your Time Spent on Everyday Student Management Tasks
   Learn how this cutting-edge technology can automate your processes for language proficiency planning, teaching, and assessing … Free up your time to focus more on your students and less on everyday tasks
9. Prevent Unethical Uses of Artificial Intelligence
   How to address AI use in the classroom … Teach ethical AI use and hold students accountable for ethical use of AI
10. Receive an Extensive World Language Instruction Digital Resource Handbook
    Each participant will receive an extensive digital handbook filled with dozens of practical AI ideas you can use to enhance learning and increase productivity in your world language classes immediately

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Best AI tools to improve students' language proficiency and reduce your workload immediately
• How to coach students' ethical and productive use of AI
• Streamline your world language classroom management routines and administrative tasks
• How to provide more effective and personalized language learning for students using AI tools
• Boost ownership and inspire more independent language learning through AI-based teaching strategies
• AI resources that strengthen learning for all levels of world language students
• AI tools that help students develop stronger language skills
• More easily support your students in need of additional practice, review, and assistance
• Timesaving ways to create, assign, engage, and provide feedback leveraging your AI tools
• Increase engagement and independence through more effective AI technology practices
• Ideas for engaging students through innovative and interactive AI-based language learning technologies
• Strategies for seamless integration of AI into your world language classroom
• How AI can assist your support of students in need of additional practice
• Encourage critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration through appropriate AI-based tools and resources
• Timesaving tips for using AI technology to improve your own efficiency and productivity
• Mindful and intentional use of AI technology with grades 6-12 students to enhance learning outcomes
• Useful AI tools to strengthen student learning and simplify teaching any language
• AI-based tools and apps to streamline classroom management and routines

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. We see examples cropping up in our personal and professional lives every day. This reality presents an opportunity for us to help our students navigate these new waters ethically and productively, but where do we start? I see two sides to the AI coin: On one hand, there are increased opportunities for academic dishonesty. On the other is a chance to transform standards-based instruction and assessment for world languages by modeling and leveraging these incredible tools. As a world language teacher, I see a great opportunity!

I designed this one-day seminar for world language teachers with a focus on research-backed instructional techniques using AI, anchored in the 6 Core Practices of the American Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures. Ideas and strategies learned at this seminar will focus on using AI tools to leverage target language proficiency based on the pillars of best practices: student-centered, authentic tasks and integrated performance tasks, staying 90+% in target language, making input comprehensible, focus on meaningful feedback, paired communicative activities, and contextualizing grammar. I will share ideas for new lessons, steering you (and your students) in creating better prompts, resulting in more meaningful output for both. We'll examine AI tools and resources ideas for any world language classroom.

Resources from the seminar will be shared to a common website chock-full of handouts, video tutorials, and hyperlinks, making them easier to implement in your classroom. All the tools, resources, and ideas I have put together for you will be geared specifically to help you increase target language proficiency in grades 6-12. I'm already looking forward to our seminar day together!

Peace,
Daryl Boeckers

P.S. It is my goal to share PRACTICAL AI tools, strategies, and ideas from my own teaching practice, ready to use immediately in your world language Classroom.

Who Should Attend

World Language Teachers, Department Heads and World Language Administrators Serving Grades 6-12

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

• Timesaving AI tools and protocols to lighten your workload as a world language teacher
• Descriptions of all activities presented in the seminar, with variations for all levels of instruction
• Practical ways to integrate AI into your world language classroom
• Strategic ways to use AI to reduce teacher workload
• Proven AI technology to help improve students' target language proficiency

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in incorporating AI in their world language instruction.

Consultation Available
Daryl Boeckers will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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