CT COLT Professional Learning Series: Why are we even doing this?!

Join us for the final event of our 2022-2023 Professional Learning Series! We are thrilled to have Mike Travers, a Spanish teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. Mike has taught learners both Spanish and French at the novice and intermediate levels. Mike is very active in professional learning communities through MAFLA, NECTFL, and ACTFL, where he presents, facilitates or participates in conferences and workshops to continue learning more about proficiency-based teaching. He has presented on the topics of grammar, curriculum writing and language learning and the brain. Apart from conferences, Mike is the vice president of MAFLA, a member of the NECTFL advisory board and has collaborated with districts and teachers across the country on different curricular projects. The workshop will begin with a live presentation, which will be recorded and available afterwards. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity to connect with the presenter as well as other participants. 

Session abstract:

In teaching, we talk about how everything we do in our classrooms needs to have a purpose. But is that purpose to practice language or to really get our students communicating about something that interests them? Join us for this session as we take a look at ways we can transform lessons in the 3 modes of communication into tasks that compel students to learn and communicate in the target language.

Registration for this workshop is free for CT COLT members. If you are not already a member, you can join through the registration process or by clicking here.