Join fellow RIFLA members in a picturesque, historical coastal Rhode Island location for this networking and professional development event to kick off the 26-27 school year!
Live Outside the Textbook: Scaffolding Authentic Multimedia for Today's Gen Alphas
Join Lingco at RIFLA to learn practical strategies for scaffolding authentic texts, audio, video, and multimedia so learners successfully interpret, interact, and present in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French. Explore Lingco's customizable resources, performance-based activities, and differentiation tools alongside classroom routines that build proficiency across interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication. Participants will leave with adaptable lesson ideas, scaffold templates, and formative assessment strategies that increase engagement, confidence, cultural competence, and meaningful target-language use in elementary and secondary classrooms through purposeful communication tasks and reflective practice.
Presenter Info: Ken Stewart was the first ACTFL National Foreign Language Teacher of Year (2005). He spent his entire career at Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina, and more recently taught Advanced Spanish Writing at Duke University. A National Board Certified high school Spanish teacher, he has taught middle grades through college. He was the recipient of ACTFL’s Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education K-12. He has served on the AP® Spanish Language and Culture Test Development Committee, as a question leader at the AP® Reading, and has been a College Board consultant for over 25 years. He has conducted over 200 workshops and summer institutes throughout the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Ken is currently an Instructional Specialist with Lingco.