ACTFL is coming to Boston!

source: https://www.actfl.org/convention-expo

ACTFL is coming to Boston! ACTFL -The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language is our guiding national organization for second language teachers. Fourteen Medfield World Language teachers are gearing up to attend the national conference from November 17-20 in Boston. The last time it was in Boston was 2010 and they are expecting over 6,000 attendees and will be offering over 700 sessions during the multi-day conference. We consider ourselves lucky to have the opportunity to attend the convention this year as it is being held in our own backyard. We would also like to thank MCPE for the generous grant to help fund the attendance of so many teachers. Our department is committed to the proficiency model of teaching and learning languages. All of the guidelines, targets, can-do statements, and pedagogy are part of ACTFLś guiding mission. The conference will allow for Medfield teachers to network with other teachers from across the nation.

They will be learning from published educators the best ways to maintain a proficiency based classroom. Teachers will be hearing from Greg Duncan, who ran the state sponsored proficiency academy this past summer, as well as experts (such as ACTFL consultants, university professors, and published authors, bloggers, and other professionals who we follow on twitter) on the AP exams, pedagogy in the elementary schools, service learning workshops as well as global competency. Our teachers plan to share what they learn throughout the year via our department meetings and collaborative preparation time.

The keynote speaker at the conference is Mike Walsh.  He promises to give the language educators a fresh and innovative perspective of the future. We are looking forward to this extraordinary professional development opportunity as one vehicle to keep our world language classes alive, motivating and pertinent.