Enhancing Instructional Design: Aligning Your Daily Practice with the Revised Standards
Presenters: Zoey Baird & Josh Wigle-Harris
Original webinar date & time: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024, 4:00—5:00 pm via Zoom
1 hour of CTLE credit offered.
The Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (OBEWL) of the New York State Education Department (NYSED) presents this next webinar in its 2024 Professional Learning Series: Enhancing Instructional Design: Aligning Your Daily Practice with the Revised Standards. This webinar is offered free of charge for world language educators and administrators working or studying in New York State educational institutions.
Webinar description: This webinar will provide examples of how two middle school teachers have designed practical, everyday lessons that meaningfully enact the revised NYS Learning Standards for World Languages at Checkpoint A. The presenters will demonstrate proven strategies that you can use to develop standards-based lessons for novice learners. They will share examples of sequenced learning tasks that boost learner confidence and performance in the various communication modes. They will also discuss how these approaches scaffold learner readiness for the Checkpoint A Benchmark Proficiency Assessment.
Click here to download the webinar flyer.
Link to Handouts folder from webinar
Post-assessments
To receive a certificate of completion (including a CTLE certificate), NYS educators must view the recording of the webinar (see link above) in its entirety and then answer at least seven out of ten questions correctly on the post assessment. If the minimum required score (7 out of 10) is achieved, the educator will receive a certificate via email within about 24 hours. For the convenience of our World Language educators, there are multiple versions of the post assessment available, should the required score not be achieved on the first attempt. Educators may take each version of the post assessment once. (See post assessment "version 1-8" links below.)
Important notes:
- Educators may take each version of the post assessment once. Credit will not be given for taking a single version of the post assessment more than once.
- Credit will not be given for more than one passing score on any of the post assessments for a webinar (listed below) in a single academic year.
- Educators may receive credit for viewing the webinar recording and passing a post assessment once in each academic year and are encouraged to take a different version of the post assessment on a yearly basis to review and test their knowledge of the webinar's content.
- It is the responsibility of the individual educator to keep track of the information on the professional learning they complete each year, including the number of CTLE hours.
- Questions about this webinar or the post assessments, should be directed to our office at (518) 473-7505 or nysworldlanguages@gmail.com(link sends e-mail).
Webinar Summary
# of attendees: 191
# of CTLE certificates issued: 154
# of certificates of attendance issued: 37
# of organizations represented by attendees: 143
175 participants from district schools
6 participants from charter schools
4 participants from non-public schools
3 participants from colleges or universities
2 participants from BOCES or RBERNs
1 participants from a government agency
Quotes from participants
“Thank you to Zoey and Josh from modeling a thematic unit with a thoughtful learning progression with scaffolding to prepare our learners for the summative tasks.” ~ Lea G.-K.
“Thank you for the presentation… Lots of info that was very helpful.” ~ Windsor T.
“Thank you a million for your presentation.” ~ Jose G.
“ Once again, an invaluable session. Thank you.” ~ Heidi D.
“Pretty phenomenal presentation. Gracias.” ~ Michele I.
“ Thank you. This was nicely organized. Thank you for sharing so many ideas.” ~ Tamar C.-R.
“Thanks so much for a truly informative presentation :) I appreciate your sharing your resources and activities.” ~ Sally B.
“Thank you very much for your well-planned presentation. It is wonderful to see the direction our profession is taking compared to the way we used to do things! :)” ~ Jennifer C.
For more information on professional learning webinars for world language educators, please visit our website.
Website presenters:
Zoey Baird is a graduate of Nazareth College of Rochester with a B.A. in Spanish and M.S. in Special Education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Ms. Baird is currently employed at East Irondequoit Middle School. She teaches both 7th and 8th grade Spanish. Zoey collaborates with special educators in an integrated co-teaching model to help meet the needs of all learners. As a newer educator in the field, she is continuously looking for ways to branch out and learn more in her field. A notion she promotes in her classroom is risk-taking and embracing the uncomfortable as a sign of growth. She has modeled this by presenting professionally several times over the past year.
Josh Wigle-Harris is a graduate of St. John Fisher College with a B.A. in Spanish and a M.S. in Special Education. He has taught at both the Gates-Chili and Wayne Central School Districts. Currently, he is teaching Spanish and serves as the World Languages Curriculum Leader at East Irondequoit Middle School. He loves working with students to develop a love for language and pushing them to take risks as they experience a new language and culture for the first time. He is a firm believer in providing students with an authentic experience in the classroom and promoting students' experiences of other cultures through travel. He serves as the NYSAFLT Rochester Regional Conference Co-Chair, is a member of the NYSAFLT Annual Conference Planning Committee as A/V Co-Chair and served as a member of the NYSAFLT Awards Selection Committee and Strategic Planning Committee. He is also part of the NYS World Language Leadership Council. Twitter & Instagram: mrwigleharris