The Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language (GWATFL) invites you to participate in our Virtual Spring Conference for language educators, featuring sessions that focus on innovative programs, emerging trends and best practices.
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Program and Session Descriptions
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Keynote:
Title: Voice and Agency: Enhancing Students’ Intersectional Identities in World Language Classes Description: We are intersectional beings, and we grow stronger and more resilient when we develop self-reflection skills and explore our fluidity and flexibility. Recognizing our fluid and hybrid identities and modeling such processes to our students can empower them: How do you develop your sense of coherence? If asked, “who are you?” “what would you say?” “What parts would you emphasize?” “What parts would you overshadow? Why?” Ideally, self-reflection comes with self-compassion, which includes a constant and consistent attention to ourselves and those identities present in our classroom, without judgment or imposition. This is a story of how testimonio can lead to a stronger, more compassionate sense of self, enabling a stronger, more empathetic commitment to meaningful action in our WL classes. |
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Abelardo Almazán-Vázquez
Abelardo is in his 10th year teaching Spanish, coaching an all-gender soccer team, and teaching Latin Dance at The Putney School. He pursued his Licenciatura in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language at Universidad Internacional UNINTER, and his Master's degree in Latin American Studies at Cleveland State University. His past presentations have been related to incorporating an anti-racist/anti bias lens in the Spanish curriculum, as well as creating safe, empowering, and affirming spaces for all intersectional and intercultural identities represented in his classes. Abelardo has been here as an immigrant for 18 years. Native from the beautiful “City of the Eternal Spring”, Cuernavaca, Mexico, He is truly devoted to continuing building bridges, not walls, and constantly finding opportunities for meaningful and constructive dialogues with his students and WL colleagues. Abelardo has presented and facilitated workshops for MaFLA, RIFLA, MCTLC, NECTFL, ACTFL and NAIS PoCC.
Abelardo is in his 10th year teaching Spanish, coaching an all-gender soccer team, and teaching Latin Dance at The Putney School. He pursued his Licenciatura in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language at Universidad Internacional UNINTER, and his Master's degree in Latin American Studies at Cleveland State University. His past presentations have been related to incorporating an anti-racist/anti bias lens in the Spanish curriculum, as well as creating safe, empowering, and affirming spaces for all intersectional and intercultural identities represented in his classes. Abelardo has been here as an immigrant for 18 years. Native from the beautiful “City of the Eternal Spring”, Cuernavaca, Mexico, He is truly devoted to continuing building bridges, not walls, and constantly finding opportunities for meaningful and constructive dialogues with his students and WL colleagues. Abelardo has presented and facilitated workshops for MaFLA, RIFLA, MCTLC, NECTFL, ACTFL and NAIS PoCC.
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Past GWATFL Virtual Fall Conference 2020
Keynote, Panels & Sessions:
Check out the GWATFL 2020 Fall Conference Program!
Keynote:
Title: Can-Do Learning: A Blueprint for Reaching Higher
Description:
Imagine that all language learners achieve a level of language proficiency that is high enough to proudly put on their resumé! How might your program gear up to support all learners to achieve that outcome? The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages and the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements provide the blueprint to guide learners to meet their goal. Empower yourselves as educators to unleash your superpowers; build your repertoire of high leverage teaching practices that connect with 21st century skills of collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication; and focus on developing and assessing what learners CAN DO with what they know.
Title: Can-Do Learning: A Blueprint for Reaching Higher
Description:
Imagine that all language learners achieve a level of language proficiency that is high enough to proudly put on their resumé! How might your program gear up to support all learners to achieve that outcome? The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages and the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements provide the blueprint to guide learners to meet their goal. Empower yourselves as educators to unleash your superpowers; build your repertoire of high leverage teaching practices that connect with 21st century skills of collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication; and focus on developing and assessing what learners CAN DO with what they know.
Paul Sandrock, Director of Education at ACTFL, directs this organization’s professional development and initiatives around standards, curriculum, instruction, and performance assessment. While at ACTFL, Paul has facilitated the revision of the national World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages and the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, and before that was a member of the original Integrated Performance Assessment development team. Previously, Paul was Assistant Director of Content and Learning at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), coordinating the areas of English language arts, mathematics, international education, and world languages. He earlier served as the Wisconsin DPI state-wide consultant for world languages. Paul taught Spanish for 16 years in middle school and high school and authored The Keys to Assessing Language Performance as well as Planning Curriculum for Learning World Languages.
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