Workshops/Webinars Offered

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  • TPRS® Workshop

    • This is one- to three-day workshop detailing the extremely successful TPRS® (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) teaching method invented by Blaine Ray. TPRS® is a student-centered method of acquiring a second language that builds vocabulary and structures of a language through increased comprehensible input while decreasing a student’s apprehension and stress of learning a second language. This method applies the principles of second-language acquisition and is being used not only throughout the United States, but around the world.
    • TPRS®-Workshop outlines

  • Power Grading™

    • This one- or two-day workshop introduces a standards-based approach to grading in today’s world-language classroom. Based on students’ proficiency levels and the main content standards in foreign languages, this approach to grading attempts to pair more accurately a student’s abilities in the language with a tangible grade required by most schools and universities. This grading method also increases student learning and achievement by more precisely pinpointing in which skills a student excels and where they may need some improvement.
    • PBG-Workshop outlines

  • Powerful PQA™

    • This half-day workshop is for teachers of all levels who wish to maximize the use of the target language right from the first day of school.
    • By utilizing the techniques detailed in this workshop, you, too, can take personalized questions to the next level, maximize student engagement, and effectively teach the hundreds of thematic vocabulary words included in textbooks, all while staying in the target language.
    • Powerful-PQA-Workshop outline

  • Accurate & Effective Assessment

    • This is a great follow-up to the Proficiency-Based Grading Workshop. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn how to make their assessments more effective by targeting specific learning outcomes and limiting the variables to make each assessment more accurate.
    • Less is more when it comes to assessment. Participants will learn how to get more out of each assessment requiring less assessments overall and how to spend less time grading and more time teaching in the classroom.
    • Accurate-&-Effecitve-Assessment-Workshop outline

  • Fast & Easy Writing Assessment

  • Fast & Easy Speaking Assessment

  • Successful Storystrips

  • “Kindergarten Day”

    • This one-hour mini-workshop/webinar explains how to effectively use children’s books to interest and engage students in the language while making it comprehensible and fun.
    • Kindergarten-Day-Mini-Workshop outline

  • Games in the Second-Language Classroom

  • Textbook to TPRS®: How to Adapt a Textbook to Storytelling

    • This is a one-hour mini-workshop/webinar detailing highly effective steps to taking the wide scope of a textbook chapter, distilling it to the essential vocabulary, structures, and culture, and turning these essentials into an effective TPRS® curriculum.
    • Textbook-to-TPRS®-Mini-Workshop outline

  • A Week in the Life of a TPRSer—How to lesson plan the perfect week!

    • This one-hour mini-workshop/webinar details how to incorporate the 3 steps of TPRS® into a traditional or block schedule and how to mix it up with additional activities to fill out the week. Participants will leave with a solid lesson-plan template along with a variety of activities to fill their teaching toolbox.

  • Songs Aren’t Just for Singing!

    • This one-hour mini-workshop/webinar shows participants how to make songs come alive not only to entertain, but also to teach students vocabulary and structure. Participants will learn how to introduce a song, teach it effectively maximizing the learning benefits, get kids to participate and have fun!

  • Meaningful Homework

    • Stop assigning textbook activities, workbook activities, and worksheets as homework! In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar you will learn how to make your homework differentiated and more meaningful to target the skills your students need to improve!

  • Advanced TPRS® Tricks COMING SOON!

    • So you’ve been TPRSing for a while and want to take your skills to the next level. This one-hour mini-workshop/webinar is for you. You will learn 10 advanced TPRS® techniques to make you a pro and get your students to acquire even more language!

  • TPRS® with Upper Levels—guest presenter Carmen Andrews-Sánchez COMING SOON!

    • You think TPRS® is only for the lower levels? Think again! In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar, Carmen will teach you how to apply TPRS® to levels 3 and up including AP and get great results!

  • Speaking Assessment—Paired Speaking COMING SOON!

    • You can never have too many tools to assess the oral proficiency of your students. In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar, you will learn how to quickly and effectively assess your students’ speaking abilities at the interpersonal level using paired speaking.

  • Comprehension Skills—How to effectively assess listening and reading COMING SOON!

    • Although creating listening and reading assessments may look easy, creating ones that target these specific skills effectively and accurately incorporating higher-order thinking skills is quite difficult. You will learn how to write and assess accurate and effective comprehension assessments that truly reflect your students’ abilities in this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar.

  • Production Skills—How to effectively assess writing and speaking COMING SOON!

    • As teachers we hate to assess writing and speaking because these assessments are time consuming to create and assess. But if we truly want our students to be proficient in the language, we must assess these skills. In this two-hour mini-workshop/webinar participants will learn a variety of ways to effectively assess the production skills or your students.

  • Advanced PQA COMING SOON!

    • PQA is a basic skill of TPRS® and one difficult to master. In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar, you will learn how to take your skills to the next level and seamlessly move from PQA to a highly personalized story.

  • Novels—How to bring them alive! COMING SOON!

    • We all know how important building a reading program is to language development. However, in today’s age, getting kids interested in “good old-fashioned” reading and maintaining that interest is difficult when we’re competing with TV, iPods, texting, and game consoles. Learn how to pique your students’ interest in the novels and have them want for more in this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar.

  • TPRS® Basics™—Focus on Step One: TPR & Gestures

    • In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar we will focus on step one of TPRS®—Establishing Meaning through TPR and gestures. You will learn how to effectively take your 3 target phrases and teach and assess them through TPR and gestures.

  • TPRS® Basics™—Focus on Step One: PQA

    • In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar we will focus on step one of TPRS®—Establishing Meaning through personalized questions and answers (PQA). You will learn how to personalize your 3 target phrases, scaffolding and leveling your questions to target specific student abilities while engaging your students in the language.

  • TPRS® Basics™—Focus on Step Two: Story COMING SOON!

    • In this three-hour mini-workshop/webinar we will focus on step two of TPRS®—The Story. You will learn how to develop a “seed” story from your 3 target phrases, how to make it “grow” with input from your students, and how to maximize repetitions through the skill of circling.

  • TPRS® Basics™—Focus on Step Three: Read COMING SOON!

    • In this two-hour mini-workshop/webinar we will focus on step three of TPRS®—Read and Discuss. You will learn how to take any reading (mini-story, extended reading, children’s book, novel, etc.) and use it to effectively teach the language and structure in a way that maximizes the natural acquisition of language.

  • TPRS® Basics™—How to teach grammar COMING SOON!

    • In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar we will focus on how we teach grammar in TPRS®. No longer will you be explaining the rules of grammar, but you will be demonstrating the nuances of how meaning is changed through popup grammar and contrastive grammar techniques to get your students to intuitively feel what’s right.

  • TPRS® Basics™—Culture Popups™

    • Who says you can’t teach culture through TPRS®? In this one-hour mini-workshop/webinar you will learn how to introduce culture in your class through Culture Popups™ and how to sprinkle these popups throughout your lessons over the course of the year to truly immerse your students in the culture all in the target language.

  • TPRS® Coaching Workshop

    • Everyone needs practice when it comes to new skills and TPRS® is no different.
    • Get step-by-step, detailed instruction in both basic and advanced TPRS® skills by a Susie-Gross-trained TPRS® coach.
    • Participants at NTPRS have said that coaching was the most beneficial aspect of their training and wished they had more opportunities to be coached.
    • TPRS®-Coaching-Workshop outline

  • Customized Workshop

    • Create your own workshop catered to your needs!
    • We can customize a workshop or mini-conference to your needs and requirements. We can create content based on TPRS®, assessment and grading, effective classroom techniques, technology, and more!
    • Let us know what you want and we’ll take care of the rest!
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