During Breakfast

ISLC Conference, Friday, October 27th, 2006 – P.M. only

Registration, Keynote Speaker – Richard Monette “Innovate Yourself How to achieve success in periods of change.” Cultural Dance Troupes ***Delegates, please arrive dressed in a traditional outfit that represents your heritage!***

ISLC Conference, Saturday, October 28th, 2006 – A.M. and P.M. Registration in a.m. ISLC AGM during lunch

Presenter Topic Description Audience Janice Aubry and Alberta Education Update During Breakfast All delegates Sigrid Olson Myriam Lemay Corrective Phonetics Amusing and easy-to-apply FSL – All levels strategies to help you improve your students’ pronunciation of the French language Michelle DeAbreau Au Secours! I Have to Strategies that can foster FSL - Valerie Leclair Teacher FSL successful learning and teaching elementary in FSL. Walk away feeling, “Mais oui, je suis capable!” Laurie Faber The Accelerated This methodology incorporates FSL- elementary Integrated Method (AIM) the use of gestures, drama, and Junior High – What’s all the buzz dance and questioning about? techniques to develop high levels of fluency in beginning French students. Peter Heffernan An Alberta/Quebec The HELP-FSL Institute, FSL – all levels Lifeline for FSL in the consisting of two credit courses context of the L2 in FSL methodology, is a fun, Initiative: The HELP-FSL energizing mix of French Institute in Jonquière language, culture, camaraderie, sociocultural activities and more. Rodica Bratu Tradition and New An overview of assessment FSL – all levels Technologies in Assessing tools such as Web resources FSL Knowledge and Skills and meaningful authentic French language texts. Kathy Williams Voice Conferencing Horizon Wimba software – a German and Software for Oral satisfactory way of dealing with French – all Practice the oral component of language levels courses. Hannah Noerenberg Talking up a Storm – Easy Discover a range of oral All languages – Activities for Oral activities you can use with your all levels Interaction in Second beginning or intermediate Language Classes second language students.

Letizia Saccomanno- Math to the Max in An overview of Math to the Bilingual Salvador and Carla Bilingual Programs Max. Explore using programs Kozak manipulatives and strategies to teaching Math enhance second language to the Max acquisition in the math classroom including words wall, scaffolding and assessment. Meike Thomsen The Bilingual Classroom: Be ready to participate and Bilingual Things that work! learn about a fun way to learn Programs – all prepositions, time, directions, levels math number activities and a restaurant skit that includes rubrics. Gena Kolay and Aboriginal Language and Enrich your knowledge of All programs – Culture Program cultural and linguistic diversity all levels Information. of Aboriginal Languages of Alberta. The goal of Aboriginal Studies Delores Pruden-Barrie Aboriginal Studies 10-20- is to increase the knowledge of 30 and Resource the learner about the past, Information present and future of Aboriginal peoples. Marie Gervais What I learned from The unique and very necessary All programs – studying teacher cultural contributions of visible minority all levels identity with visible teachers will be described to minority, immigrant and demonstrate how significantly refugee teachers teaching and learning is impacted by race, culture, ethnicity, language and the experience of marginalization. Olenka Bilash Activities that develop This session will present 5 All programs – and integrate all four scaffolded ‘projects’ that all levels skills; listening, speaking, integrate all 4 skills. reading and writing and culture! Heather Huculak and Developing the Vision: Participants will gain a greater All programs – Kristina Kastelan- Perceptions of the Second awareness and better all levels Sikora Language Mandate understanding of how to develop leadership in second languages and will be inspired and encouraged to play more active roles in this project.

Luisa Molennar and Having Fun While Learning Be prepared to walk away with Language & Sylvia Braz a Second Language some fun, hands on activities Culture that can be done in your SL Programs - classroom that will engage and Elementary excite students about learning Mauricio Rivera Using On-Line resources Explore a series of resources Spanish – all Quijano to teach Spanish available on the Net produced levels by different institutions such as government, Universities and schools to provide assistance to those teachers around the world teaching Spanish SL. Claudia Kost “Practicing Language Skills This presentation focuses on All programs – and Improving Cultural how cultural information from all levels – some Knowledge through the Internet can be used to examples for Internet-Based develop students’ language skills the beginning Activities”. and cultural awareness German simultaneously. Language curriculum. Melody Kostiuk Brain-Compatible Participants will learn about the All programs – Strategies to Enhance L2 principles of brain-compatible all levels Learning learning and explore practical strategies that will enhance language teaching and learning. Jincheng Huang Chinese Proficiency Test This presentation will include a Chinese (HSK) Results and brief description of the programs – all Implications preparation, the process and levels. Session the results of the Chinese will be in Proficiency Test for Young Chinese. Learners that was piloted by Edmonton Public Schools in April 2006. Tejwant Chana “So, Why Intercultural This presentation will address All programs – Education?” this enquiry for educators as it all levels relates directly to global citizenship. What “knowledge, skills and attitudes” are students to “acquire” to be “effective global citizens”? Sara Coumantarakis Exchange Teachers Open Try a teacher exchange to All programs – Minds: Alberta Australia, NZ, US, UK, all levels Education’s Teacher Denmark, Switzerland or Exchange Program Germany or another province in Canada for intense professional growth in another culture. Carolyn King General Language This session will discuss the All programs – Education: What is it General Language Education all levels Really? Strategies & component of second language Activities for the curricula. Classroom Claudia Bous and Culture in the German The presenters will share German Eva Guenther Classroom several teaching units, such as programs – Christmas traditions, regional Junior and architecture in German, and Senior High food, that ca be used in beginning language classrooms Geneviève Maheux- “Tying Grammar into a In this presentation, students All programs – Pelletier and Communicative Context in will learn a functional approach all levels Claudia Kost the Foreign Language to grammar and use their Classroom” grammatical skills in order to communicate a message successfully. Participants will develop their own materials. Catherine Serrand, Contextualizing Readings Pre-, post-, and while-=reading All programs – Ekaterina in a Second Language activities need to be all levels – Chudnovskaya, Classroom contextualized in order to examples in Sarah Darling motivate students and ensure German successful reading. Deb Venance Videoconferencing in the Experience the classroom from All programs – Second Language an elementary student’s view in all levels Classroom, - Experiences an FSL videoconferencing class. to Share Hannah Noerenberg & Interactive Language Experience first hand the Spanish, Mike Ettrich Learning @ resources to support the Japanese and LearnAlberta.ca! instruction of Spanish and FSL programs - Japanese Language & Culture elementary and FSL. Marnie Beaudoin What you need to know Learn about the basic principles All programs – about Assessment for of Assessment for Learning, all levels Learning in a second and have an opportunity to language context. consider how they can be applied in the SL classroom. Richard Monette “Innovate yourself Build Richard will lead you through an All programs – your own action plan to action plan that will contain: all levels achieve in periods of factors that are critical to change.” success, how to prioritize your personal and profession life and you will learn techniquers to achieve success in periods of change Karen Shaw & Intentional Design and You will experience a planning All programs – Paddy Michael Linking Assessment to framework where essential all levels – Instruction concepts emerge and linguistic examples from structures are designed. ESL SIGS Dinner Entertainment: Comedian