This session will introduce a school-wide, year-long Francophone country exploration, sharing guidelines for selecting and promoting the 3 P's of a target country, while adhering to regular curricular goals, and demonstrate how the nature of the project puts students' voices and interests at the forefront, leading to increased engagement while providing a more diverse lens into Francophone culture. The session will include a hands-on learning experience and a portion of the session for sharing resources amongst participants.
Learn how to invigorate French conversation with your students in class through the high-impact activity of structured debate. The format of debating, infuses enthusiasm into conversation, while building vocabulary, refining pronunciation, enhancing confidence, and improving fluency. Using video of your choice, documentary, serial, or feature film, as the starting point, students lead the discussion implementing the important elements of debate such as argument, evidence, refutation, and respectful communication. Debate sample lesson with activities and templates will be provided during this interactive presentation.
Enjoy learning about Senegalese "teranga" as two Chicago-based French teachers discuss their experiences traveling in Francophone West Africa with Vive L'expérience. This session will explore the itinerary followed, the relationships forged, the cultures shared, the lessons learned, as well as how these experiences have been incorporated into the classroom. There will be time for Q&A and more information for those interested in future trips to Senegal with Vive.
