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Professional Development Presentations

Presented by:

Celena Smith-Reuter (French Teacher - Eau Claire, WI)

Brianna Reese (French Teacher - Chippewa Falls, WI)

Musique Mercredi Language Learning through Songs (WAFLT 2012)

This presentation focused on using music in the world language classroom to teach culture and use songs to reinforce grammar. The Musique Mercredi Facebook Group was also created for this presentation as a way for French Teachers to collaborate on how to use music in the classroom. Today, this Facebook group has 9,200+ members.

Comprehensible Input: Maximizing Target Language in Levels 1 & 2 WAFLT 2015

Presented by:

Brianna Reese, Rachel Arendt, Katy Sauer, and

Michele Bergeron

This presentation focused on using comprehensible input to stay in the target language, make texts comprehensible and help students acquire language proficiency in the novice levels. This presentation won Best of Wisconsin at WAFLT and was later presented at Central States in 2017.

Comprehensibility & Compelling Texts = Engaged Readers WAFLT 2015

Presented by:

Angie Oplinger and Kris Kolinski

This presentation focused on how to make authentic texts accessible to students via reinforcement of key vocabulary prior to and during reading. It also focused on a variety of reading strategies and text modifying techniques to use in levels 2-5.

Charlas and Bavardages WAFLT 2016

Presented by:

Angie Oplinger and Michele Bergeron

This presentation focused on how to organize and manage weekly student-led conversations about culture and current events in the target language. This presentation was also presented at Central States in 2017.

Fostering a Culture of Reading WAFLT 2016

Presented by:

Kris Kolinski

This presentation focused on how to model a variety of reading strategies and text modifying techniques to engage readers, boost their confidence and prepare them for reading tasks on AP and placement tests.

Novelty: Engaging Strategies for the CI Classroom WAFLT 2016

Presented by:

Katy Sauer, Rachel Arendt, Brianna Reese, Lisa Zondlo, Emily Judkins

This presentation focused on how to enhance student engagement by using novelty with a variety of comprehensible input strategies, kinesthetic activities, varied technology, and personal connections to involve students.

Resource:

Chippewa Falls World Language Conference Website

*Our department created this website in 2016 for all 3 of our WAFLT presentations to give out to attendees who attended our conferences. as a one-stop-shop. We continued adding to this website up until 2019.

Novice Novelty: Keeping it Comprehensible and Engaging in Lower Levels WAFLT 2018

This presentation focused on how to make small adaptations to any lesson to make it novel and to enhance student engagement. By using comprehensible input, teachers learned a variety of strategies to make texts, games and technology novel.

Presented by:

Rachel Arendt, Kris Kolinski and Cammy Mompier

Presented by:

Cammy Mompier

Cultivating Cultural Competence in Novice Levels WAFLT 2019

This presentation focused on how to present and assess cultural topics in novice levels. Strategies on how to organize cultural topics, different activities, and various examples of assessments were shared.

Making Creativity Work in the Classroom FLESFEST 2019

This presentation focused on using multimodal strategies to support students in meaningful ways and to support their creative thinking and learning by using visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile strategies and activities.

Presented by:

Cammy Mompier

Anne Hlas & Hannah Apold (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)

Presented by:

Cammy Mompier, Brianna Reese and Rachel Arendt

World Language Tech Tool Hall of Fame WAFLT 2021 & Central States 2022

This presentation focused on our favorite technology resources to use in the comprehensible input classroom that focused on technology with assessments, games, reading strategies, culture, etc.

Get that Blue Ribbon: Applying for the Donna Clementi Award WAFLT 2023

This presentation will focus on how the Chippewa Falls World Language Department strengthened their program by using collaboration across levels to design their own curriculum and to provide students with engaging and meaningful experiences every day in the classroom. The department will also explain the steps it took to apply for the Donna Clementi Blue Ribbon award and the process of designing their portfolio for submission.

Presented by:

Michele Bergeron, Alie Bultman Barnard, Jodi Haupt, Kris Kolinski, Jess Onsager, Angie Oplinger and Brianna Reese

Professional Community Outreach

Since 2015, our department has had several school districts observe our World Language classes. These districts wanted to observe Comprehensible Input (CI) classrooms and ask advice on the process of designing curriculum and transitioning to CI.

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