1-hour recorded Webinars


This webinar is designed to show teachers how to create and sustain class stories (personalized mini-situations) that are engaging and effective for all types of learners. Carol will present fail-safe guidelines for asking stories and then share four powerful sources for creating a story. Participants will collectively (through cyber space) practice sustaining each type of story and leave with the tools necessary to launch and maintain fresh and compelling stories in their own classrooms!


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This webinar is designed for teachers who have previous knowledge of/experience with TPRS®, and who are interested in learning strategies that will help young learners develop real fluency in the Target Language. Participants will learn how to prioritize activities and use specific techniques that will help students become active communicators in the language.


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This webinar will provide ten powerful strategies that will enhance class stories (personalized mini-situations), making them more fun, engaging and educationally entertaining for students.  These tips will also help make story-asking more manageable, more appealing and LESS stressful for YOU!  Discover simple, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you pull off a successful story every time.


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Attention Chronic Conjugators!  This webinar will show you how to teach students to communicate in various verb forms and tenses without going through conjugation drills and verb charts.  Learn how to follow the principles of Hortizontal Conjugation, while naturally exposing students to other verb forms and tenses through specific, easy-to-implement techniques that will help your students naturally and effortlessly communicate in the appropriate verb form and tense.


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Start your school year with minimal stress, extreme enthusiasm and loads of Comprehensible Input. Discover how to stay in the Target Language and how to engage and motiviate students from DAY ONE! We'll discuss strategies for organizing the classroom, grading, personalizing, organizing lessons and sub plans, and facilitating engaging activities in the TARGET LANGUAGE that are appropriate for the FIRST day or ANY day of the school year.


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Using Novels to Enhance Curriculum & Instruction - Webinar

 

This webinar will provide ample ideas for incorporating novels into your current instruction/curriculum. Learn how to select appropriate novels, how to tie them to your existing curriculum, how to enhance acquisition through simple, yet powerful reading strategies and how to engage all students, regardless of reading ability, through activities that will result in 100% comprehension and enjoyment.

Presenter: Carol Gaab

Time: 1 hr. 22min.


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This webinar will focus on what makes a good reading and a good reader and why weaker readers don't engage in reading.  Learn effective and engaging techniques for completing class readings and deepening comprehension. Watch as attendees participate in several pre-reading and post-reading activities that will engage readers of all literacy levels, facilitate acquisition and help students develop a love for reading in the Target Language.


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This webinar will demonstrate additional techniques for completing an assortment of readings, from lesson-driven readings to novels and literature. Watch as attendees participate and discuss powerful activities that will engage students, deepen comprehension and facilitate acquisition.


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This webinar is designed to provide specific strategies for sustaining TPRS in your classroom. Learn how to 'go the distance' with TPRS from 8a.m. - 3p.m., from August to May!  If you are looking for strategies to help you maintain your energy, your voice and your ability to maintain an environment full of compelling, comprehensible and contextualized input,  this webinar is a must-attend!  


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This webinar will demonstrate various activities and strategies for teaching grammar IN CONTEXT! Learn specific techniques (both implicit and explicit) for enhancing communication skills and improving grammatical accuracy both in everyday communication and on standardized tests-- without 'kill and drill'. Discover how to make grammar more meaningful, understandable and useful to all students, not just the top 5% of the class! (Recovering) grammarians and anti-grammarians welcome!


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 This webinar will focus on effective techniques for differentiating language instruction, in addition to helping you articulate how you may already be differentiating instruction. Learn ten powerful, yet simple strategies for providing engaging and effective instruction for all students, not just the top 5% of the class. Discover how to engage and successfully reach all types of learners, regardless of perceived ability levels and learning styles. Presenter: Carol Gaab  (1.25 hour)

 


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First impressions are crucial to establishing a foundation of trust and respect, and what you do during the first week of school will have a tremendous impact on student attitudes/achievement.  Start the school year  (or re-ignite mid-year) with a high level of success and motivation by activating learners from day one! In this webinar, you will learn strategies and activities that will engage students, facilitate immediate language acquisition and result in positive and confident attitudes toward your class and the rest of the year! 
Carol Gaab - Presenter

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 Are you tired of new technologies that leave you scratching your head and thinking "this is very cool but I don't have the time to learn it"?  Believe it or not, there are some things you may not have heard of that could actually SAVE you time and make everyone envious of your techie skills! Discover easy tech tools to create lessons that are embedded in comprehensible, compelling input in both written and verbal forms.  4pm - 5pm Pacific Time

 


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How do you know where to GO...if you don't know what they KNOW?  Assessment is more than just tests and quizzes.  In this webinar, you will learn some fantastically fun and easy ways to quickly and informally assess your students' progress as well as help them to assess their own skills and knowledge.   You will soon discover that formative assessment will also help you to more effectively plan your daily instruction.  No more surprises on test day!

Presenter: Kristy Placido


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Has choral reading become boring, predictable or mundane in your classroom? Do students just go through the motions or  do they check out completely when it is time to read chorally with the class? If you struggle with keeping the reading 'process' fresh or with the reading 'process' in general, you won't want to miss this webinar!  Carol will share simple, yet effective strategies for keeping the reading process fresh and engaging.  

Presenter: Carol Gaab


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Experience strategies that work with ALL language learners, regardless of age. Both the young and old respond to games, cell phones, spontaneity, songs, web 2.0, stuffed animals, reading and story time. Bring your crayons or your iPad and pick up a few ideas you can put into action immediately.

Presenter: Leslie Davison

 


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Novice learners need to become comfortable operating within the target culture(s) and with authentic texts. However, most authentic texts are quite difficult for a novice to navigate. Participants will see how the novice learner can be guided toward the rich experiences offered by authentic texts without fear and frustration. (58 min.)

PRESENTER: Kristy Placido


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