WVFLTA Call for POSTER Proposals 2019

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Keynote Speaker: Jim Wooldridge (Señor Wooly)
Dates of Conference: October 18-19 2019
Location: Highlands Event Center Wheeling, WV
DEADLINE to submit proposals: September 18, 2019
Posters are less formal and conference participants will visit various posters during the poster session time.

Direct Questions via email, call, or text to WVFLTA Vice President: Leah Devine wvflta@gmail.com (304) 549-5365

Conference Theme: Achieving World-Readiness: Making Multilingual, Culturally Competent, & Empathetic Students!

What is the title of your Poster session? (75 Characters or less)

Presenter 1 Name :

Presenter 1 email: (notification of acceptance will be via this email)

Presenter 1: I permit my email to be printed in the program.

Yes

Clear selection

Presenter 1 Phone (will not be in the program)

Presenter 1: I accept text messages at this phone number

Yes

Yes, but limited amount

Clear selection

Presenter 1 Home Address:

Presenter 1 Position(s):

Student: Language Education Major

Student: Language Major

Student Teacher

University TA

K-12 World Language Teacher

University World Language Professor

Retiree

Other:

Presenter 1: Name(s) of schools, colleges, or universities where you teach, study, or retired from:

Presenter 1: In which state do you teach? And/OR: indicate if you are a student / TA / student teacher / or retired.

Presenter 1: County/Counties where you teach (or indicate if you are not currently teaching):

Presenter 1: Language(s) you teach:

Presenter 1: Level(s) / Course(s) you teach:

Presenter 1: Social Media (*If you would like to network professionally via social media, provide your @Twitter, @Instagram etc. These will appear in the program.)

Brief Biography of Presenter 1: Write it in 3rd person. Include where you teach, number of years teaching, which schools, levels, achievements, etc. You may include other interests. (*125 word limit. Will appear in the program.)

Presenter 2 Name: (Skip this session if only one presenter)

Presenter 2 email: (notification of acceptance will be via this email)

Presenter 2: I permit my email to be printed in the program.

Yes

Clear selection

Presenter 2 Phone (not for the program):

Presenter 2: I accept text messages at this phone number

Yes

Yes, but limited amount

Clear selection

Presenter 2 Home Address:

Presenter 2 Position(s):

Student: Language Education Major

Student: Language Major

Student Teacher

University TA

K-12 World Language Teacher

University World Language Professor

Retiree

Other:

Presenter 2: Name(s) of schools, colleges, or universities where you teach, study, or retired from:

Presenter 2: In which state do you teach? And/OR: indicate if you are a student / TA / student teacher / or retired.

Presenter 2: County/Counties where you teach (or indicate if you are not currently teaching):

Presenter 2: Language(s) you teach:

Presenter 2: Level(s) / Course(s) you teach:

Presenter 2: Social Media (*If you would like to network professionally via social media, provide your @Twitter, @Instagram etc. These will appear in the program.)

Brief Biography of Presenter 2: Write it in 3rd person. Include where you teach, number of years teaching, which schools, levels, achievements, etc. You may include other interests. (*125 word limit. Will appear in the program.)

Please use this space to share information about additional presenters. Please share the same information as what is requested for presenter 1 & 2 including the biography.

Session Information

Session Title: (This is how it will appear in the program. *75 character limit)

Describe your poster session (topic/format/purpose) in a few sentences. 125 word limit.

Session Justification: Why do you want to present on this. (This description will NOT appear in the program.)

Strands: Check off which of the following strands into which your presentation/poster mainly falls. Check all that apply. The strands are based on Core practices that are reflective of a presentation that builds facility. The strands are inspired by the American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages, or ACTFL. ACTFL has proficiency guidelines that indicate what a person can do with the language. Although, the guidelines are not based on any particular theory, pedagogy, or curriculum, they do stress the following 6 Core Practices. (www.actfl.org).

Strand #1: Use the target language as the vehicle and content of instruction. What strategies can teachers use to provide target language input at 90%+? How can teachers, regardless of their own proficiency level, provide target language input at 90%+?

Strand #2: Design and carry out interpersonal communication tasks for pair, small group, and whole class instruction. How can teachers design interpersonal communication activities around meaningful topics? How can teachers help students negotiate and interpret meaning? How can teachers create a “communicative classroom?” How can textbook based units be designed to be communicative?

Strand #3: Design lessons and tasks that have functional goals and objectives, to include activities needed to support and meet communicative objective. How can language teachers use the “Backward Design” model to plan lessons with functional goals and objectives? How can teachers plan learning experiences that meet communicative objectives?

Strand #4: Teach grammar as a concept and use it in context. How can teachers help students focus on meaning before form? What are some strategies teachers can use to present grammar as a contextualized concept? What do errors indicate about a student’s level of proficiency?

Strand #5: Design and carry out interactive reading and listening comprehension tasks using authentic cultural texts and follow-up tasks that promote interpretation. How do the quality of reading and listening exercises increase a student’s measurable written and spoken communication? What is the role of scaffolding in understanding the authentic cultural texts?

Strand #6: Provide appropriate feedback in speech and writing tasks. What is effective feedback that increases a student’s proficiency? Is error correction effective? How can students self-monitor their proficiency?

Strand #7: Beyond the K-12 Classroom Topics in this strand help those in higher education and K-12 classroom settings to examine issues in world and classical language programs in West Virginia and beyond. Topics include but are not limited to: higher education professors/instructors sharing with high school teachers what skills and knowledge their students need to succeed at the next level, how universities/colleges can partner with K-12 schools to promote world language study and cultural/global literacy, increasing higher education participation in WVFLTA, ascertaining the most effective placements (schools and mentors) for pre-service teachers, evaluating pre-service teacher programs, are current assessments of pre-service teachers an accurate measure of their future success in a classroom, etc. Note: presenters may choose to lead a round table open discussion rather than a formal presentation.

Strand #8: Promoting cultural, global, & empathetic competence.

Strand #9: Shifting from a traditional based to a proficiency based classroom.

Other:

Target Audience. (what audience(s) does your presentation/poster best lend itself to?)

any/all

elementary

middle

secondary

post secondary

pre-service (student teaching etc)

Teachers within their first five years of teaching.

teachers shifting to a proficiency based classroom or new to CI

Other:

List equipment needed for your session/poster.

Requested day to present poster. (Requests will be considered but will not be guaranteed.)

Friday October 18

Saturday October 19

Either day is fine

Clear selection

Thank you, Notes, Questions, and Photos

Thank you for submitting a proposal for our 2019 conference!

Please send a photo of each presenter to wvflta@gmail.com and name the file the presenter's name. Please put "Presenter Photos + Your Session Title" in the subject line.

NOTES
● Not all members of the audience will speak your target language. Consider using examples in more than one language or in English.
● Conference sessions – and all components of them – should tie in as closely as possible to the conference theme and strands and include suggestions for methods, culture and materials.
● Preference will be given to interactive sessions that can be immediately implemented in the classroom to build proficiency.
● Conference will try to offer accepted proposals that proportionately cover all 6 core practices and K-12 beyond.
● Upon acceptance of your proposal, you MUST confirm within 10 days that you received acceptance.

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