1. TAKE YOUR PICK! REAL, RELEVANT & RICH! PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO TEACHING WORLD LANGUAGES & CONNECTING LANGUAGE LEARNING TO THE REAL WORLD DR. MELITTA WAGNER-HEASTON UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014 52nd Annual CCFLT Spring Conference The Real World of World Languages: Language Use Beyond the Classroom February 20-22, 2014 Embassy Suites, Loveland, CO

2. Take your Pick! Do our classroom activities get students’ attention? Are they relevant to students’ needs and interests? Are they culturally rich & authentic? Well…… Spark a passion for discovery & healthy engagement in your students Use internet searching, game-based learning, conversation circles, Web-Quests, PACE modeling as learning tools Give students ownership of what they learn Promote active & creative learning through interaction & collaboration Create culturally rich & real learning activities Engage students in exploration & problem solving – While you address standards & enhance your ‘teaching tool kit’ Which activity should I present my students with tomorrow?

4. Create Activities that : Real – engage students to look at and reflect on topics that concern people in the real world and involve students in a constructive process that is student-driven to some significant degree, not teacher-led, scripted, or packaged Rich – link student learning to the world around us and introduce culturally rich practices, perspectives and products that foster cultural awareness Relevant – connect to their ‘world’; is of interest to them, reflect their concerns -- incorporate real-life challenges with a focus on authentic (not simulated) problems or questions

6. Student teachers from the University of Northern Colorado will:  Present Practical Approaches to creating engaging language activities  Focus on the Colorado Content Standards for World Languages Session participants will have access to all activities via a Wiki link created by the presenters. All materials may be copied and shared as needed with other foreign language teachers.

7. Rachel Johnson (Spanish) Elise Harvey (German) Tori Hepburn (Spanish) Claire Magee (French) Faith Jessup (Spanish) Will Adams (Chinese)

8. Documents from today’s presentations may be viewed on the FL 341 Methods WikiSpace portal: http://fl341methods.wikispaces.com/ Contact information: Dr. Melitta Wagner-Heaston University of Northern Colorado melitta.wagnheaston@unco.edu