ISLC Conference, Friday, October 27th, 2006 – P.M. only
Registration,
Keynote Speaker – Richard Monette “Innovate Yourself How to achieve success in
periods of change.”
Cultural Dance Troupes
***Delegates, please arrive dressed in a traditional outfit that represents your
heritage!***
ISLC Conference, Saturday, October 28th, 2006 – A.M. and P.M.
Registration in a.m.
ISLC AGM during lunch
Presenter
Topic
Description
Audience
Janice Aubry and
Sigrid Olson
Myriam Lemay
Alberta Education Update
During Breakfast
All delegates
Corrective Phonetics
FSL – All levels
Michelle DeAbreau
Valerie Leclair
Au Secours! I Have to
Teacher FSL
Laurie Faber
The Accelerated
Integrated Method (AIM)
– What’s all the buzz
about?
Peter Heffernan
An Alberta/Quebec
Lifeline for FSL in the
context of the L2
Initiative: The HELP-FSL
Institute in Jonquière
Rodica Bratu
Tradition and New
Technologies in Assessing
FSL Knowledge and Skills
Amusing and easy-to-apply
strategies to help you improve
your students’ pronunciation of
the French language
Strategies that can foster
successful learning and teaching
in FSL. Walk away feeling,
“Mais oui, je suis capable!”
This methodology incorporates
the use of gestures, drama,
dance and questioning
techniques to develop high
levels of fluency in beginning
French students.
The HELP-FSL Institute,
consisting of two credit courses
in FSL methodology, is a fun,
energizing mix of French
language, culture, camaraderie,
sociocultural activities and
more.
An overview of assessment
tools such as Web resources
and meaningful authentic
French language texts.
FSL elementary
FSL- elementary
and Junior High
FSL – all levels
FSL – all levels
Kathy Williams
Voice Conferencing
Software for Oral
Practice
Hannah Noerenberg
Talking up a Storm – Easy
Activities for Oral
Interaction in Second
Language Classes
Letizia SaccomannoSalvador and Carla
Kozak
Math to the Max in
Bilingual Programs
Meike Thomsen
The Bilingual Classroom:
Things that work!
Gena Kolay and
Aboriginal Language and
Culture Program
Information.
Delores Pruden-Barrie
Aboriginal Studies 10-2030 and Resource
Information
Marie Gervais
What I learned from
studying teacher cultural
identity with visible
minority, immigrant and
refugee teachers
Olenka Bilash
Activities that develop
and integrate all four
skills; listening, speaking,
reading and writing and
culture!
Horizon Wimba software – a
satisfactory way of dealing with
the oral component of language
courses.
Discover a range of oral
activities you can use with your
beginning or intermediate
second language students.
German and
French – all
levels
An overview of Math to the
Max. Explore using
manipulatives and strategies to
enhance second language
acquisition in the math
classroom including words wall,
scaffolding and assessment.
Be ready to participate and
learn about a fun way to learn
prepositions, time, directions,
math number activities and a
restaurant skit that includes
rubrics.
Enrich your knowledge of
cultural and linguistic diversity
of Aboriginal Languages of
Alberta.
The goal of Aboriginal Studies
is to increase the knowledge of
the learner about the past,
present and future of
Aboriginal peoples.
The unique and very necessary
contributions of visible minority
teachers will be described to
demonstrate how significantly
teaching and learning is
impacted by race, culture,
ethnicity, language and the
experience of marginalization.
This session will present 5
scaffolded ‘projects’ that
integrate all 4 skills.
Bilingual
programs
teaching Math
to the Max
All languages –
all levels
Bilingual
Programs – all
levels
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels
Heather Huculak and
Kristina KastelanSikora
Developing the Vision:
Perceptions of the Second
Language Mandate
Participants will gain a greater
awareness and better
understanding of how to
develop leadership in second
languages and will be inspired
and encouraged to play more
active roles in this project.
All programs –
all levels
Luisa Molennar and
Sylvia Braz
Having Fun While Learning
a Second Language
Language &
Culture
Programs Elementary
Mauricio Rivera
Quijano
Using On-Line resources
to teach Spanish
Claudia Kost
“Practicing Language Skills
and Improving Cultural
Knowledge through
Internet-Based
Activities”.
Be prepared to walk away with
some fun, hands on activities
that can be done in your SL
classroom that will engage and
excite students about learning
Explore a series of resources
available on the Net produced
by different institutions such
as government, Universities and
schools to provide assistance to
those teachers around the
world teaching Spanish SL.
This presentation focuses on
how cultural information from
the Internet can be used to
develop students’ language skills
and cultural awareness
simultaneously.
Melody Kostiuk
Brain-Compatible
Strategies to Enhance L2
Learning
Jincheng Huang
Chinese Proficiency Test
(HSK) Results and
Implications
Participants will learn about the
principles of brain-compatible
learning and explore practical
strategies that will enhance
language teaching and learning.
This presentation will include a
brief description of the
preparation, the process and
the results of the Chinese
Proficiency Test for Young
Learners that was piloted by
Edmonton Public Schools in
April 2006.
Spanish – all
levels
All programs –
all levels – some
examples for
the beginning
German
Language
curriculum.
All programs –
all levels
Chinese
programs – all
levels. Session
will be in
Chinese.
Tejwant Chana
“So, Why Intercultural
Education?”
Sara Coumantarakis
Exchange Teachers Open
Minds: Alberta
Education’s Teacher
Exchange Program
Carolyn King
General Language
Education: What is it
Really? Strategies &
Activities for the
Classroom
Culture in the German
Classroom
Claudia Bous and
Eva Guenther
Geneviève MaheuxPelletier and
Claudia Kost
“Tying Grammar into a
Communicative Context in
the Foreign Language
Classroom”
Catherine Serrand,
Ekaterina
Chudnovskaya,
Sarah Darling
Contextualizing Readings
in a Second Language
Classroom
Deb Venance
Videoconferencing in the
Second Language
Classroom, - Experiences
to Share
Interactive Language
Learning @
LearnAlberta.ca!
Hannah Noerenberg &
Mike Ettrich
This presentation will address
this enquiry for educators as it
relates directly to global
citizenship. What “knowledge,
skills and attitudes” are
students to “acquire” to be
“effective global citizens”?
Try a teacher exchange to
Australia, NZ, US, UK,
Denmark, Switzerland or
Germany or another province in
Canada for intense professional
growth in another culture.
This session will discuss the
General Language Education
component of second language
curricula.
All programs –
all levels
The presenters will share
several teaching units, such as
Christmas traditions, regional
architecture in German, and
food, that ca be used in
beginning language classrooms
In this presentation, students
will learn a functional approach
to grammar and use their
grammatical skills in order to
communicate a message
successfully. Participants will
develop their own materials.
Pre-, post-, and while-=reading
activities need to be
contextualized in order to
motivate students and ensure
successful reading.
Experience the classroom from
an elementary student’s view in
an FSL videoconferencing class.
German
programs –
Junior and
Senior High
Experience first hand the
resources to support the
instruction of Spanish and
Japanese Language & Culture
and FSL.
Spanish,
Japanese and
FSL programs elementary
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels –
examples in
German
All programs –
all levels
Marnie Beaudoin
What you need to know
about Assessment for
Learning in a second
language context.
Richard Monette
“Innovate yourself Build
your own action plan to
achieve in periods of
change.”
Karen Shaw &
Paddy Michael
Intentional Design and
Linking Assessment to
Instruction
SIGS
Dinner
Entertainment: Comedian
Learn about the basic principles
of Assessment for Learning,
and have an opportunity to
consider how they can be
applied in the SL classroom.
Richard will lead you through an
action plan that will contain:
factors that are critical to
success, how to prioritize your
personal and profession life and
you will learn techniquers to
achieve success in periods of
change
You will experience a planning
framework where essential
concepts emerge and linguistic
structures are designed.
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels
All programs –
all levels –
examples from
ESL