Professional Development

AATSP Winter Workshop

AATSP Chicago Area Winter Workshop

This workshop was divided into three sessions in order to meet a variety of teacher's interests. I attended the following sessions:

Technology in the Spanish Speaker Classroom
- This session explored a variety of resources, such as podcasts, FlipGrids, and iMovie, and how they can be meaningfully incorporated in the classroom.
Teaching Spanish Literature through Vertical Articulation
- This session shared strategies that teachers can use to teach Spanish literature in a vertically-aligned curriculum.
"Is it worth it? Let me work it!"
- This session explored the role of worksheets, charts, and guided notes in the communicative classroom.

Empowering Heritage Spanish Students

Workshop by Diego Ojeda

In this workshop, Diego Ojeda shared best practices, strategies, and activities that help teachers of Spanish Heritage students create an engaging, compelling, and rigorous classroom environment that meets their specific needs.

https://srojeda.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/empowering-heritage-spanish-students.pdf

Advanced Placement Summer Institute

AP Summer Institute at Northwestern

This 4-day professional development seminar was dedicated to educating teachers of Spanish about the AP Exam. Curriculum recommendations were provided as well as a thorough review of the concepts necessary to ensure student success on this exam. The seminar was led by Ms. Maria Vazquez from July 8-11 at the Northwestern University Chicago campus in downtown Chicago, IL.

ACTFL Workshop

The Role of Grammar in a Proficiency-Orientated Curriculum

This workshop included a review of the ACTFL proficiency levels, the main characteristics of each level according to mode of communication, and the ways in which teachers use the ACTFL assessment criteria in K-12 classrooms. It addressed the role of grammar in the development of proficiency and how we can teach grammar in ways that foster the development of language proficiency. Lastly, we reviewed current textbook and instructional materials to determine how to teach grammar through language functions, not as an isolated concept. (Mar. 9, 2019)

CI en español: Workshop

With Diego Ojeda, Tina Hargaden & Valentina Correa

This conference taught participants how to incorporate Comprehensible Input into their language classrooms. We learned how to provide comprehensible input to our students on a daily basis, how to transition students to hearing and using the target language fro 90% of class time, techniques and strategies to improve all areas of our students proficiency, the role of reading in all levels of the language classroom, and assessment techniques that align with an approach to language teaching that is focused on developing language proficiency. This conference was held at Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School. (Feb. 23, 2019)

Introduction to the Responsive Classroom for K-8 Educators

During this one-day introduction, special area teachers learned how Responsive Classroom practices help us to foster a positive community in our classroom, integrate academics with the teaching of social and emotional skills, and create the conditions for positive student behavior on a daily basis. For more information, please see https://www.responsiveclassroom.org (Feb. 4, 2019)

Collaboration in the highly engaged classroom

On February 24, 2018, the Alexander De Jong Center for Special Education sponsored Trinity Christian College's annual education seminar which featured speaker Susan Hentz, a renowned consultant, author, and teacher. In this seminar, Susan provided teachers with practical strategies to boost student achievement in our classroom. The all-day seminar covered topics from successful collaboration, different approaches to co-teaching, integration of specifically-designed instruction, and how to create a highly engaged inclusive classroom. It also provided teachers with an A to Z list of two minute active learning strategies that are practice, innovative, and effective in getting all of our students actively engaged.

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