LaTeS: Language Teacher Symposium

CERCLL hosts a biannual day-long symposium at which K-12 language teachers can share ideas and issues that are specific to their community. Arizona Continuing Education is available.

CERCLL is grateful to the University of Arizona’s College of Humanities for its contribution to LaTeS.

 

 

 

Title: Effective Strategies and Activities for Interpersonal Communication

 

Presenter: Cecile Nedellec (Patrick Henry High School/SAILN & CLTA 2025 TOY)

 

Event Date: February 15, 2024

 

Time: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm AZ Time (includes lunch)

 

Location: In-person at The University of Arizona, Tucson & Online (Virtual attendees will receive the Zoom link via email one day before the event.)

 

Remote Access Limitations

If you are a virtual attendee, CERCLL will email you with the link for you to join the Zoom meeting one day before the event.

Please note: Virtual attendees will be able to hear and see what is happening in the room, but there may be times when the presenter will be out of the field of view of the camera and you may not be able to hear the in-person attendees. Microphones will be muted for all online participants, any communication such as questions or comments can be made in the chat. Virtual attendees may be eligible to receive a certificate of participation for this event. Terms and conditions apply.

 

Registration is free! Last day to register is February 10th, space is limited.

 

Fall 2024 LaTeS Testimonials

See what attendees found most beneficial about this workshop.

I attended the Language Teacher Symposium (LaTeS) Fall 2024 hosted by The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy as a virtual participant. The presentation by Angelika Foerst, Mindfulness Practices for Creating an Inclusive Classroom!, provided a great deal of food for through and consideration in my own language teaching practice. I will be able to use what I have learned in this session to further meet my own teaching goals.

I am constrained in what content I can teach and discuss in class by Texas House Bill 3979, Senate Bill 3, and local school district book bans. However, some parts of this presentation I will take away and apply to my own teacher mindfulness practice.

This includes include the concept of santosh, or contentment for no reason. I believe I have experienced this, but lacked the vocabulary to describe it. As a result of my new knowledge form the symposium, I hope to further cultivate this quality in myself and model it at school for my diverse learners.

This symposium was a fruitful experience for me and I loved how beautifully and intellectually the speaker delivered the notion of inclusive classroom, starting from scratch and then developing the whole idea. The activities and examples seemed very interesting to me as my teacher also incorporated such techniques in her classroom.

The information presented was great, but the application from the presenter’s perspective and experience and how it can be applied to help with language acquisition was very insightful. The best part being that mindfulness starts with the teacher.
 

I really enjoyed the option to join virtually. Thank you for making this event inclusive!
 

While I’m still an MPhil scholar, I am eager to start integrating mindfulness techniques into my future classes. Simple practices, like beginning with a brief moment of calm or encouraging students to express their thoughts openly, seem powerful in fostering both focus and a sense of belonging. This symposium has motivated me to embrace these practices with a deeper awareness of their roots and an aim to create a more mindful and inclusive space for learning. I look forward to building classrooms where students not only learn but also feel a genuine sense of connection and acceptance.

I believe that is important for teachers to also look at the different things they can do to practice more mindfulness inside and outside the classroom. There are not a lot of workshops that touch on this topic when it comes to language classrooms and I appreciate that we were able to learn from such an experienced teacher.

LaTeS 2024 Archive

Ben Fisher Rodriguez, Creating an LGBTQ+-Inclusive Learning Environment for All Learners in the Language Classroom and Beyond

Angelika Foerst, Mindfulness Practices for Creating an Inclusive Classroom

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LaTeS 2023 Archive

Sara Lee, Small Changes - Big Impact, Classrooms Strategies for More Inclusion, and Melanie Mello, Performance-Based Activities for the World Language Classroom. Fall 2023 LaTeS, October 28: Small Changes - Big Impact, Classrooms Strategies for More Inclusion...

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LaTeS 2020 Archive

Fall 2020 LaTeS – Format change due to the pandemic See the webinar presented by Cherice Montgomery on November 7, 2020: Crafting Competing Experiences: The Power of Stories, Scaffolding, and Sharing Several other webinars were offered in two series that Fall as well....

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LaTeS 2019 Archive

Francis Troyan, Genre Matters in Contextualized World Language Learning, and Kristin Davin, Strengthening your Core: Practices to Support Students' Language Development. Fall 2019 LaTeS, November 16: Genre Matters in Contextualized World Language Learning Presented by...

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LaTeS 2018 Archive

Jacque Van Houten, Leveraging the Power of the Language and Intercultural Can-Dos; and Donna Clementi, Planning with the End in Mind: Performance toward Proficiency. Fall 2018 LaTeS, November 3: Leveraging the Power of the Language and Intercultural Can-Dos Presented...

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LaTeS 2017 Archive

Pamela Wesely, Social Justice in the Language Classroom: A New Lens on Learning; and Toni Theisen, Activating Communication: Designing Learning and Creating Meaningful Assessments. Fall 2017 LaTeS Social Justice in the Language Classroom: A New Lens on Learning...

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LaTeS 2016 Archive

Jennifer Wortzel, Learning Stations: From Impact to Application; and Brenda Gaver, You don't Need to be High Tech to get your Students Engaged!   Fall 2016 : Learning Stations: From Impact to Application Presented by Jennifer Wortzel (Basha High School, Chandler,...

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