Join us for two days of workshops an coaching that will change your life as a teacher! The famous Latin teacher and teacher trainer Justin Slocum Bailey is here to share his extensive knowledge on language acquisition and his many  years of experience as a CI language instructor with you.
 
Justin will give demo classes in Latin, using many techniques to make you experience their immediate effect. You will receive explicit, hands-on training in performing the techniques and incorporating them into our teaching practice. 
 
Day 1
 
Language in the Wild and in your Textbook
Why do some longstanding language tasks and lessons yield so little fruit, while some deceptively simple habits and interactions generate so much proficiency? This session provides a clear, even-handed, memorable presentation of the most pertinent findings in linguistics and psychology, along with concrete applications for curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
 
Because textbooks rarely align with fundamental findings in Second Language Acquisition research, helping learners efficiently grow in proficiency with a textbook as the central element of a course is difficult—but not impossible. The second session of today showcases ways of honoring learners’ brains even in a textbook-tied curriculum: participants will learn how to take both the long-range trajectory and individual units of a textbook and create compelling tasks and interactions that support proficiency.
 
Throughout the day there will be time for hands-on practice and coaching on several core CI-providing techniques.
 
Day 2
 
Learning to Read, Reading to Learn
Second language reading skills for academic and personal growth
How to choose and use texts to help students move through Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills language and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) and develop their own joyful reading habits in a second language.
 
Next-Level Text Talk
Six questions to start, sustain, and elevate conversation about a text
We all want our students to engage in higher-order thinking and conversation, but how students with limited linguistic proficiency might do so in another language can be mystifying. These questions and associated discussion techniques for before, during, and after the reading of a text are designed to develop higher-order processing in language learners from the very beginning of their studies.
 
Throughout the day there will be time for hands-on practice and coaching on several core CI-providing techniques.
 
See Justin in action in a Latin class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Qhf7Nu8-w
 
You will receive:
A handout with tips & tricks and all the techniques practiced in the workshop
Coffee and tea with snacks, and a tasty lunch on both days
A certificate of completion