Providing Professional Development Workshops for Teachers and Leaders
When
November 10 - 11, 2023
(Friday and Saturday)
Timing: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
When
Where
In-Person Venue
Mariott Sukhumvit Soi 57
Bangkok, Thailand
Workshop Fee
In-Person
Individual
Workshop Fee: USD 490
Meeting Package: USD 200
Group of 3 or more
Workshop Fee: USD 450
Meeting Package: USD 200
(per participant)
Fee is inclusive of workshop materials, lunch and coffee break, and a certificate of participation.
Online (Virtual)
Individual
Workshop Fee: USD 490
Meeting Package: USD 70
Group of 3 or more
Workshop Fee: USD 450
Meeting Package: USD 70
(per participant)
Fee is inclusive of workshop materials and a certificate of participation.
Background
Multilingualism is the norm around the world, yet too often international schools serve multilingual students with a monolingual bias.
This workshop will help participants reflect, disrupt, and design to build schools where multilingual children are known, valued, served, and loved.
Target Audience
Classroom and Content Area Teachers (K-12)
Learn how to serve the needs of their multilingual learners in a way that honors their journey with research based, high impact strategies. Every teacher is a language teacher.
EAL Specialists, Instructional Coaches, and Curricular Leaders
Broaden your instructional craftsmanship by gathering strategies to serve students in their grade level/ subject area classrooms.
Leadership committed to working on linguistic equity
Learn how to design curriculum that facilitates language acquisition alongside concept and content attainment. Develop success criteria for curriculum and instruction that further linguistic equity, rather than systems that uphold deficit mindsets towards multilingual learners.
Topics Covered
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Multilingual mindsets and language acquisition
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Translanguaging
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Learning and language targets
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Discourse, grammar, and vocabulary strategies
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Progressive scaffolding for agency
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Differentiation
Implementable Skills
This workshop will equip participants with the following skills/mindsets:
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Dynamic,additive multilingual mindsets in order to help disrupt deficit, inequitable systems.
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Gather translanguaging strategies in order to nurture dynamic multilingual ecosystems.
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Design high impact learning and language targets in order to facilitate language learning in the content area classroom.
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Design for discourse, in order to facilitate language acquisition for multilingual students.
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Gather progressive scaffolding strategies, in order to facilitate multilingual learners agency.
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Design differentiation opportunities for their multilingual students, in order to create space for voice and choice in their curriculum.
Workshop feedback
Workshop Facilitator
Beth Puma is currently an Instructional Coach and EAL Specialist at The American School in Japan. From August 2023 she will be a full time consultant/workshop facilitator based in USA. She has a broad range of experience as a classroom teacher, EAL specialist, curriculum coordinator and coach in K-12 schools.
She has worked with linguistically diverse students in New York City, Tucson, Guangzhou, and Tokyo. She specializes in working with teachers in unit and lesson design.
FAQ
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Can you tell me a little more about the online option?
The online participants will form a virtual table where they will interact with the trainer and other participants, both online and onsite. The online and onsite participants will be considered as one cohesive group.
By leveraging the power of hybrid meeting technology and appointing a dedicated coordinator, we aim to provide our online participants with an interactive and engaging learning environment.
What are your cancelation/refund policies?
You can refer to our Terms & Conditions page
Do you offer Continuing Education Credits?
No. Not at this point.
Will I get a certificate of participation?
Yes, with the number of participation hours stated.