Best, Most Powerful Strategies for Teaching WORLD LANGUAGES (Grades 6-12) Presented by Bryce Hedstrom Outstanding World Language Teacher, Presenter and Author

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

• Highly effective strategies to more fully engage your students and increase their motivation in your world language instruction
• Powerful methods to achieve ACTFL's goal of at least 90% target language use that will work for you
• Timesaving tips to better differentiate your world language instruction and help your students attain higher levels of proficiency
• Proven, easy-to-implement techniques to create an inclusive language learning environment and reach all students

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This outstanding seminar by nationally known world language teacher Bryce Hedstrom has been specifically designed to help you more effectively teach for proficiency and achieve the goal of using the target language 90%+ of the time. Bryce will provide dozens of practical ideas for strengthening your world language instruction to increase students' success in the target language. You'll learn practical tips, activities, assignments, and strategies to more successfully engage all students, including beginners, in the target language.

Bryce will present, model and provide opportunities to practice activities and techniques during the seminar. Explore ways to integrate students' personal identities into the fabric of your class and make each student feel like the most important one in the room. Discover questioning and follow-up questioning strategies that will engage all students and help them get to know, like, and respect each other better – all in the target language!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Learn the Best Practical Strategies for Teaching World Languages
   As an experienced teacher who has successfully worked with students and teachers for many years, Bryce has developed dozens of proven techniques to more deeply engage students and improve their language acquisition … Walk away reinvigorated and inspired to implement a wealth of new strategies and ideas
2. Increase Use of the Target Language
   Learn a variety of strategies to increase the time both you and your students spend speaking the target language
3. Learn New Ways to More Effectively Differentiate Your Language Instruction to Reach All Students
   Explore many dynamic, proven techniques to help all students succeed and feel good about your class … Learn quick and effective ways to check for understanding and provide the appropriate degree of rigor for all students
4. Boost Fluency With Natural Language Use
   Learn how to use language in ways that allow students to acquire elements of grammar naturally … Get your students to understand and fluently use grammar well beyond what was previously thought possible
5. Personalize the Language Learning Experience for Your Students
   Engage students by giving them the tools to talk about their own lives and interests … Increase engagement, minimize disruptions and enhance language acquisition
6. Promote Spontaneous, Authentic Communication in the Target Language
   Learn easy-to-incorporate, innovative and effective ways to get your students to use the target language in meaningful and personally relevant ways
7. Learn From an Outstanding, Nationally Recognized World Language Teacher
   Bryce is recognized across the country and abroad for his innovative ideas in world language teaching … As a classroom teacher, he knows what works with the constantly moving target of today's language learners
8. Enhance the Interpersonal Mode of Communication
   Discover easy-to-implement ways to engage students in unrehearsed language use via role playing, pictures, rejoinders, and life discussions
9. Learn New Ways to Deliver Cultural Content in the Target Language
   Use "comprehended input" to teach the culture, history, geography and legends of the target language in your classroom … Utilize the target language to teach content
10. Receive an Extensive World Language Digital Resource Handbook
    You will receive an extensive world language digital resource handbook, specifically designed for this seminar and filled with a wealth of practical ideas, information and activities you can use immediately in your own world language classroom

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Dozens of the most effective strategies to strengthen your world language instruction
• Classroom-tested routines that will maximize your instructional time
• Three key strategies to teach reading in the target language that keep students engaged and enable them to read on their own, even in lower level classes
• Engaging ways to start and end class that save time, create a sense of community and foster mutual respect
• The "no-prep" reading strategy that will launch students' fluency to unparalleled levels
• How to use rejoinders to spark prolific natural language use and enable students to acquire the language long after they leave your class
• Five low- to no-prep techniques to check reading comprehension quickly and painlessly
• Proven techniques to make content more meaningful and relevant to more students
• Strategies to create a classroom culture that builds community, trust and proficiency, creating the desire in students to continue to learn the language
• How to choose the most effective reading materials for effective and long-term language acquisition to help students painlessly master the most challenging aspects of grammar
• Highly effective differentiation techniques that will challenge quick learners, meet average students and not leave developing students behind
• Ways to encourage natural speech with and among your students

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Some teachers seem to be born to teach. I was not one of those people. I always longed to be an effective teacher, but for years I honestly was not as effective as I wanted to be. With the help of colleagues and seminars like this one, I learned techniques that worked. Later, I developed many additional strategies of my own. I've designed this seminar to increase your learning curve and increase your teaching options by sharing the best of what I've found really works.

The focus of our day will be on practical strategies and techniques that will enhance your teaching for proficiency and boost your students' language acquisition in equitable, engaging and effective ways. This is not theory for me – I use each of these methods in my classes daily. The techniques I will share with you are grounded in current best practices of world language instruction, the latest brain research and years of practical application. You will get the kind of insight and advice that only an experienced teacher can provide.

This seminar will include practical ideas that will help you enhance your delivery of compelling, comprehensible input to your students on a sustainable basis. Classroom management, reading strategies and personalization are especially areas I have been able to help teachers the most, and I will share my very best ideas with you.

I am confident that you will leave this seminar energized and eager to add many new, practical ideas to your own teaching repertoire. You'll leave with many additional strategies for creating a proficiency-focused, humane, inclusive learning environment where all students want to attend your class and feel motivated to learn the language.

I look forward to spending the day with you!

Sincerely,
Bryce Hedstrom

P.S. The emphasis will be on practical strategies that you can start using the very next day in your own classroom.

Who Should Attend

World Language Teachers, Department Heads and 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 World Language Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive world language digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• The key principles of communicative language teaching
• Effective personalization strategies that create trust among students and build a community of enthusiastic target language speakers in your classroom
• Easy-to-incorporate, effective approaches to teach reading
• Tips and techniques to personalize your students' language learning
• Concrete strategies for effective classroom management, designed specifically for the world language classroom

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 participants a great opportunity to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their world language program.

Consultation Available
Bryce Hedstrom will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own world language 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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