**This event is currently postponed due to the COVID19 virus. OWL Is giving free online support to teachers during the transition to distance learning. Find more information here!**
Day 1: Visitation Day
See students and teachers in action in this all-day OWL Visitation Day! Participants will spend time in student-centered, proficiency-based classes observing strategies and techniques for a variety of levels. See how movement, pairings and groupings, speaking and literacy are cohesively brought together in
one class period. Classes will be in Spanish, however, debriefs will be in English. Since many aspects are so visual, a non-speaking Spanish teacher will still benefit greatly from the experience. Participants will hear from students through a Student Panel.
Pre-reqs: Recommended for all teachers, with or without previous OWL workshop
attendance.
Goals:
- Observe and participate with students and teachers in an authentic
environment
- Hear from students about their experiences
- Q&A time and Debrief with the facilitators
- Receive materials to effectively reflect and debrief
Day 2: OWL Proficiency and Engagement Strategies
This workshop explores the foundational understandings of proficiency and second language acquisition. The training will reveal a structure that creates an interactive, student-directed classroom. Participants experience the strategies through demos with students, when possible, and in whole and small groups. The focus is on an immersive, target language environment where students are highly engaged and intrinsically motivated. Teachers leave with new techniques and relationships for continued collaboration!
Workshop outcomes:
- Proficiency foundation
- Techniques for high student engagement
- Second language acquisition foundation
- Exploration of the 100% second language environment
- Strategies for eliciting student production
- Intro to questioning strategies
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April 17, 2020 - April 18, 2020
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
