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Our instructor, Brandon "Bastien" Locke, presents each of us with our "Certificates of Completion" at our celebration dinner.
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Teacher Seminars' participants put closure on their 10 days
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Purposeful Assessment
Achievement, placement, proficiency, formative, summative, alternative, authentic, Advanced Placement (AP)…these are just a handful of the terms that we tossed around today as we discussed the important role of assessment in world language instruction. Our group debated questions such as:…
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“Experiencing” Language through our Environment
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Eddy Dehler-Seter teaches a content-based lesson at das BioHaus.
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Teacher Seminars participants experience the power of nature.
Nature and the environment was most certainly today’s…
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Tying It All Together
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Teachers are engaged while also being reminded what it feels like to learn a different language.
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Mustafa leads us in an Arabic lesson.
Today is…
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Communication: The Ultimate Goal
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Carrie leads us in a communicative activity that is very hands-on!
Communication is obviously the ultimate goal of language instruction. Although the 5 C’s are intertwined, one can argue that without communication, the other…
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Integrating Culture
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Culture surrounds us. As language teachers, our job is to teach beyond the "products," incorporating the practices and perspectives.
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Norwegian dean Tove Dahl leads a culture-based
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Putting Theory into Practice
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Das BioHaus has inspired several teachers to develop units based on environmental issues.
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Here, Wencke searches for authentic materials in German to supplement her IPA.
The focus…
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Witnessing, Firsthand, the Magic of the Language Villages
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Zayd, one of our Arabic teachers, enjoys his time at Skogfjorden.
Today the participants of the Teacher Seminars course were able to spend a few hours amongst the staff and Villagers of several…
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Teaching Language through Content
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Teachers are engaged in a content-based environmental lesson at Waldsee's BioHaus.
Today the focus of our professional discussions and interactions centered around the notion of teaching a second language through a specific content-area. We…
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Teachers visit the Language Villages
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Here are a few of our teachers in front of "Paris," the dining hall at Lac du Bois.
Today the group of Teacher Seminars participants spent a good part of the day touring…
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