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MIWLA 2010 Conference: Practically Speaking
October 21-22, 2010
Lansing, MI
LET’S GET PRACTICAL!
How do you…..
* assess proficiency?
*integrate technology?
*implement trimesters?
*make homework relevant?
*engage unmotivated students?
*include special needs students?
*use games without sacrificing quality?
*satisfy state graduation requirements?
Learn the answers to these questions, or better yet, share how you do it!
 Keynote Speaker and Workshop presenter:
Ellen Bernard Shrager
Ellen is a 7th grade Spanish Teacher from Pennsylvania with useful insights into classroom management.
Ellen Shrager is a full time Spanish teacher in a public school outside Philadelphia. She is the author of “Teacher Dialogues – A Survival Guide to Successful Dialogues with Low-Performing Students, Indulged Students, and Enabling Parents.” Ellen uses a blend of current research, personal classroom anecdotes, and humor to present five different workshops.
Her keynote is about how she overcame her feelings of “teacher burn-out” with today’s students. She shares how she learned to compassionately bridge the gap between attitudes and behaviors students bring to the class and the attitudes and behaviors they need to appropriately function in the classroom.
Ellen Shrager has worked with many children from rural and urban poverty and has over 20 years experience in the World Language classroom. She has presented frequently at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the National Middle School Association. She has also been the keynote speaker at a dozen state conferences for world language teachers, and presented at many school in-services, where her topics also include the Top 100 Websites for World Language Teachers and Motivating Reluctant Learners in the World Language Classroom. She is a graduate of Boston College and earned her MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her wish is to help teachers find their own 'teaching voice' that rekindles their joy in the classroom.
 Featured Workshop and Sessions Presenter:
Carol Gaab
Carol will focus on TPRS, with tips for reaching all students.
A seasoned presenter, Carol Gaab has been presenting TPRS® workshops and in-services for national and international schools and universities since 1996. Carol also presents for the Bureau of Education and Research and is known for presentations that are highly engaging and practical. A master teacher, Carol has 20 years experience teaching second language, including Spanish at all levels and ESL for various Major League Baseball clubs. Her clients have included the SF Giants, Oakland A’s, CO Rockies, AZ Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers. In addition to writing articles published in educational journals, Carol has written and published TPRS training materials and curricula for elementary through high school students. President of TPRS Publishing, Carol also serves as a TPRS consultant/editor for various textbook publishers.
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