May Webinar: Putting Students In The Driver's Seat with Discovery Grammar

May Webinar: Putting Students In The Driver's Seat with Discovery Grammar

In the language classroom, we often want students to take ownership of their learning especially when it comes to grammar. This likely means asking students to discover new grammatical structures through authentic or teacher-written resources but that can prove to be a challenge.

In this webinar, we will examine that exact challenge.

We will examine what it means to teach grammar in context while focusing on several specific techniques that teachers can use to help guide students to uncover new structures. Teachers will leave with new ideas or tweeks to existing ideas to help put students in the driver's seat and make progress in their language abilities

Mike Travers is a teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts and has taught Spanish and French at the novice and intermediate levels. He is an active presenter at MAFLA, NECTFL, and ACTFL, and currently serves as the president of MAFLA. He is also the co-author of the recently published book Teaching For Proficiency: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency. Mike has a true passion for working with districts and teachers as they make the shift to a student-centered, proficiency-based approach in their world language programs.

Active RIFLA members will gain 1 PLU for attending this webinar.