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ACTFL offers institutions and groups a variety of workshops catered to language educators at all levels. These workshops are grounded on a foundation of proficiency and standards-based teaching practices, all targeted toward providing educators with the tools to guide their learners to the next level.
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“The workshop has influenced me to reflect on my teaching style and strategies to a great extent. I envision to implement a paradigm shift in my classroom. I would increase the use of authentic materials in class and speak more in the TL.”
Emi Home
Chicago Public Schools
“I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I was able to apply what I learned immediately.”
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ReDefiners World Languages
“The workshop was great! The pace was perfect and didn’t seem as if I was being lectured to. The presentation was interactive and provided opportunities to implement and think through how they could be applied in our own classrooms.”
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High School Spanish Teacher, Chicago Public Schools
Before submitting your workshop request to ACTFL, it’s important to review all of our offerings to ensure that you identify the most appropriate workshop for your institution’s context. You’re ready to submit a request if you know:
Perfect for grounding your teachers with critical ACTFL principles and publications. Convenient for virtual delivery and limited scheduling availability.
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Workshop Description: This workshop will explore the ACTFL Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as an innovative way to assess learners within the World-Readiness Standards framework. Participants will learn to create and implement IPAs based on an interesting theme/context, appropriate authentic text, level-appropriate interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational tasks, and within a backward design framework. The workshop addresses how to use rubrics to assess communicative performance in conjunction with co-constructed feedback sessions, as well as the types of instructional activities that will prepare learners for IPA tasks across the three modes. Participants will strategize how they might implement IPAs in their language programs.
Prerequisite for Workshop Registration: This workshop is designed for participants who have a basic understanding of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Guidelines, specifically the type of oral performance characteristic of each proficiency level. Participants will be asked to complete a short multiple-choice pre-assessment and will need a minimum score of 80% to proceed with workshop registration. Participants may take the assessment as many times as necessary to attain the minimum required score.
Maximum Participants: 20
Language of Delivery: English
Hours: 8 (including breaks and lunch)
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What is proficiency and how can I focus my instruction on helping my learners continuously develop and strengthen their proficiency? Examine the characteristics of the major levels of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and identify what changes as learners move through the Low, Mid, and High sublevels across the Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced ranges of proficiency. Apply that understanding to analyze and adjust classroom tasks to guide learners to demonstrate the targeted level of proficiency.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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Hours: 3.5 (including 15 min break)
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The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages provide the framework for designing curriculum, planning instruction, and guiding learners. Standards put the focus for language programs on what learners should know and be able to do (and how well). Experience the process for using the standards to develop a unit of instruction. Reflect on how these standards can help develop “world-ready” learners.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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Hours: 3.5 (including 15 min break)
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The NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements capture the key elements of proficiency to guide educators as they design tasks for learning or assessing language performance and to guide learners as they monitor their progress along the proficiency continuum. Unwrap the components of the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements and discover how they are connected, linking language and culture. Identify specific strategies to help learners develop and apply what they need to raise their language performance to a higher level. Support your learners by focusing on what they can do!
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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Hours: 3.5 (including 15 min break)
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What really counts to move along the proficiency continuum (from Novice, to Intermediate, and towards the Advanced level of proficiency)? What strategies are effective for developing proficiency using each Mode of Communication? Through the lens of the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, unpack the elements of proficiency and what they mean for planning effective tasks. Experience and analyze a variety of examples from one sample unit of instruction. Identify one class you are teaching and use that as a lens through which to apply your learning. Guide your learners to develop the language functions and confidence to move to higher levels of proficiency.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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Begin by developing a shared understanding of what language proficiency is across levels and how to support learners’ progress towards proficiency goals. Develop a toolbox of strategies to design purposeful units and performance tasks in the three modes of communication (Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational) and identify day-to-day learning activities that support language goals. Apply the principles of backward design and the use of authentic resources to effectively plan meaningful learning experiences in the target language. Explore the assessment of language skills in each mode of communication as well as strategies for involving learners in self-assessment for ongoing proficiency growth.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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This workshop is an introduction to the AAPPL. The AAPPL is a web-based proficiency and performance assessment of K-12 standards-based language learning. It assesses tasks across the three modes of communication as defined by the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. Participants will learn the traits of learners at Novice, Intermediate, or Advanced as well as strategies for moving students along the proficiency continuum. Additionally, participants will work together to develop a student-friendly rubric (K-12) and prompts appropriate for each proficiency level.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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This workshop familiarizes participants with the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines, ACTFL Rating Scale, and the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). The OPI is a valid and reliable means of assessing how well a person speaks a language. This workshop includes presentations by ACTFL staff or facilitators, examples of ACTFL OPIs conducted by our certified testers, as well as activities that will solidify your understanding of each major proficiency level.
Note: Participants who complete this workshop are not eligible to apply for Limited (Novice Low – Intermediate High) or Full (Novice Low – Superior) OPI Tester Certification. This workshop is appropriate for language educators who do not wish to pursue OPI Tester Certification.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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ACTFL offers institutions and groups of individuals the opportunity to host an ACTFL workshop intended as the first step toward OPI Tester Certification. These intensive, multi-day OPI and Modified OPI Assessment Workshops are conducted in several delivery formats to meet the needs of institutions in a variety of contexts. For complete details, agenda, delivery options, or to determine which course is right for you. Please visit Certification Workshops.
Intended as an introduction to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 – Writing, this workshop introduces participants to the major and minor level descriptors and the criteria for assigning a global writing proficiency rating. Participants explore a variety of writing tasks across levels of proficiency, evaluate language samples based on the criteria as described in the guidelines, and design appropriate writing activities and writing assessment prompts at the four major levels.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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This workshop focuses on how to approach grammar from a functional, proficiency-oriented perspective. After exploring a framework for addressing grammar functionally, participants will be guided through hands-on activities to evaluate their existing materials, rethink the treatment of grammar inside individual courses and across the curriculum, and design activities intended to help students acquire grammatical structures at various levels of proficiency.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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This workshop provides an overview of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Rating Scale and a description of the functions, contexts/content areas, discourse type and accuracy features appropriate to each level. Participants discuss the curricular implications of the proficiency scale and explore strategies and activities that enable students to cross proficiency level borders (i.e., Intermediate to Advanced, Advanced to Superior).
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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This workshop focuses on how to build a curriculum that is designed to keep students making steady progress in terms of overall proficiency. ACTFL facilitators will focus the workshop on achieving Intermediate, Advanced, or Superior levels of proficiency in various skills (Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening) and modes (Interpersonal, Presentational, Interpretive) depending on the needs and aims of your program, faculty and students.
Maximum Participants: 30
Language of Delivery: English
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