Professional Development from your kitchen has returned!

ITANJ is excited to offer you two 2016 fall mini-series!

Series 1:  Thursday, early evening from 6:00 to 7:15 pm

Thursday, October 6, 2016:  Beyond the AP Exam

This interactive online discussion, led by AATI-LI Secretary Christen Visceglie, will focus on new ways to engage your AP Italian students in order to best prepare for the AP Exam and beyond.

• New authentic resources
• Current articles and listening activities
• Use of various technologies  
• Sample lesson plans and activities including flipped classroom techniques
• Sample assessments
• Exchange of ideas and lessons with colleagues

 

Thursday, October 20, 2016, IPA’s and other new ways

This interactive online discussion, led by AATI-LI Secretary Christen Visceglie, will focus on Integrated Performance Assessments, a new method of assessing students that includes the three modes of communication- interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational skills.

• What is an IPA?
• Sample IPA’s for middle and high school use
• Assessment rubrics
• Sample lesson plans that include IPA’s
• Ideas for adapting IPA’s to match your needs
• Exchange of ideas with colleagues

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series Two:  Saturday morning 9:00 to 10:15    “Muoviti! Muoviti! Getting Students Moving in Italian Language and Culture”  presented by Lillyrose Veneziano

 

Webinar 5 Nov. Part  1- Muoviti, Muoviti!

 

Part 1 of “Muoviti! Muoviti! Getting Students Moving in Italian Language and Culture”

In the first part of this webinar series, we will explore the theoretical framework and pedagogical approaches that serve as the foundation for Italian lessons that draw on students’ talents and interests to create meaningful interaction with the Target Language and Culture. We will explore the ways in which the Differentiated Classroom can foster creativity and nurture continual learner motivation, while working steadily toward communicative and content-based goals.  Materials will be shared, and participants will be invited to engage with one another about their own experiences, questions, and ideas for the future.

 

Webinar 10 Dec. Part two Muoviti, Muoviti!

 

Part 2 of “Muoviti! Muoviti! Getting Students Moving in Italian Language and Culture”

In the second part of this webinar series, we will look more closely at how to differentiate our lessons in order to involve our students not only in choosing content, but also in crafting meaningful, goal-oriented assessments both formative and summative assuring that we are meeting learning objectives.  Materials will be shared, and participants will be invited to engage with one another about their own experiences, questions, and ideas for the future.

 

 

Professional Credit Hours: 

• receive two hours for each individual webinar
• Four hours per each series,  
• Eight hours for both series

 

Pricing: 

• $35.00 per webinar
• $60.00 per series

 

Special Offer – Act quickly!

Attend all four webinars for $100.00 if ITANJ receives your check or Pay Pal payment no later than September 30. Our webinars are recorded, so if you should miss a live webinar, you can view them at a later, convenient time.

 

 

Mail a check to:   

ITANJ  c/o Teresa Sengel,

5 Sunny Court,

Somerset, NJ 08873

Or

Pay via Pay pal on our website:  www.itanj.org

Questions:  email sengeltm@gmail.com or sberardo@comcast.net

About our presenters:

 

Christen is currently a high school teacher on Long Island who also teaches adult education courses as well as a multi-level course at Stony Brook University. She received her Master’s degree from Middlebury College and has taught students from ages 4-75. Christen recently received a grant for a three-week professional development course for Italian teachers around the globe and is excited to share methods learned from the program as well as from her other travel study experiences

 

Lillyrose presented our 2016 winter webinar series, “Music in Art” & “Art in Music.  She is the Director of the Italian Language Program and Coordinator of Intermediate Italian at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches Italian Language, Cinema, Literature and History courses at all levels in both English and Italian.  Lillyrose is the author of Music Study Program, Italia 1988-2012 (2014) and published several other works as well.