Strengthen your foreign language instruction

Do you need or want to attend a foreign language seminar.  I highly recommend BER.  I posted once about it here.  I've attended several of these seminars and I have always come away with teaching strategies that I was able to implement the very next day.  Additionally you can often earn 1 or 2 graduate level credits for most courses as they count towards Spanish teacher education.

To find out if there is a Spanish seminar near you go here.  Every time I go to one of these seminars on Spanish teacher training I always feel like it was well worth my time. I just received a packet describing a seminar titled "Strengthening Your Foreign Language Instruction: Making Best Use of Podcasts, Blogs, Wikis, and Other Cutting-Edge Technology Tools"  This particular seminar boasts these:

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

• Strengthen your knowledge of Web 2.0 tools and their practical use in your foreign language program
• Proven techniques for effectively integrating technology into your language curriculum
• How to incorporate digital storytelling into your classroom to maximize student engagement, creativity and proficiency in the target language
• Innovative ideas to help students demonstrate their knowledge in the target language
• How to set up your own classroom wiki and blog and ideas for how to use them effectively
• Ways to integrate all four language skills into student work in and outside the classroom
• Engaging strategies to spark culturally-rich discussions in your language classroom based on current Web resources
• How you can use Web 2.0 technology to more effectively integrate the foreign language standards and meet your curricular goals
• Proven ideas to guide all your students  toward developing greater language proficiency
• Cognitively engaging activities that are applicable to all levels of language learners
• Easy-to-implement ways to increase communication skills through tasks for real audiences
• Simple, effective techniques to engage every student in your foreign language classroom
• Ways to provide more opportunities for students to communicate in the target language using the technology skills with which they are most comfortable
• How you can extend learning in the target language beyond your classroom
• How to connect and collaborate with colleagues through Web 2.0 professional development communities
• Ways to guide your students in identifying, using and citing appropriate copyright-free Web content in their work
• How to integrate peer review and editing into your language lessons without diminishing class time
• The most essential Web 2.0 vocabulary that will enable you to speak intelligently about the use of emerging technologies in the language classroom

To find out if there is a Spanish seminar or foreign language seminar near you go here.