MaFLA 2015 Fall Conference

If Not Proficiency, What? 9:00am - 3:00pm

Create a Rich Learning Environment for Student Interaction: 90% Plus 4:30pm - 8:30pm

Design Beyond the Modes: Performance to Proficiency with IPAs for Transfer 9:00am - 3:00pm

Solutions for Online Translators 4:30pm - 8:30pm

Organizing and Supporting Your Students' Developing Proficiency: The New Teacher Guide 9:00am - 3:00pm

Go Slow to Go far without Textbooks 9:00am - 3:00pm

Atelier pédagogique: Creating Thematic Units and Assessing for Proficiency 9:00am - 3:00pm

Using Proficiency Data for Program Improvement 8:00am - 11:00am

Learning About Culture and Current Events in the Target Language 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Ten Steps to a Successful Career 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Bringing About an Awareness of Social Justice in the Foreign Language Classroom 8:00am - 9:15am

Flipping the Spanish Language Classroom 10:00am - 11:15am

Introducing  ELAG - The European  Languages Advocacy Group 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Interactive Visual Technology: Using 'Thinglink' in the Foreign Language Classro... 8:00am - 9:15am

Answers Will Vary 10:00am - 11:15am

Developing Linguistic and Cultural Fluency in AP Courses Using Graded Texts and... 1:00pm - 2:15pm

AFS Presents: Weaving Intercultural Education into your Curriculum 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Activités engageantes à la québécoise 8:00am - 11:00am

Characteristics and Practices of Highly Effective Language Teachers 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Technology Meets Hands-On Learning 2:30pm - 3:45pm

¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de realismo mágico? 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Integrating Global into World Language Instruction 8:00am - 11:00am

Digital Professional Development: Twitter, Google+, and More 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Adding Some Spice: Making Everyday Activities Interactive 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Let Your Students Sell Your Program: Latin Projects Beyond the Classroom 8:00am - 11:00am

Experience an Integrated Performance Assessment 1:00pm - 2:15pm

It's Elementary! Planning and Implementing World Languages in K-6 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The Proficiency Cohort: Making Shift Happen, District-Wide 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Move up the Ladder with Confidence and Clear Goals 8:00am - 11:00am

Unfolding Curriculum with Backward Design 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Building Proficiency by Focusing on Learners: Styles- and Strategies-Based Instr... 8:00am - 9:15am

Hispanic Cinema: Creating Thematic Units with Films from the Spanish-Speaking Wo... 10:00am - 11:15am

Achieving Proficiency Goals for Global Competence 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Google Apps in the Foreign Language Classroom 8:00am - 9:15am

Literacy and Proficiency: Making the Connection 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Activities Your Students Will Love! 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Becoming Comprehensible: Easy, Practical Ways to Use Second Language Acquisition... 8:00am - 9:15am

Carmina et sacra quibus melius Latinam docere possis 10:00am - 11:15am

Bringing Latin and its Vivacity into the 21st Century 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Reading Strategies: Summarizing with a Purpose 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Mythology Role-Playing Games in the Latin Classroom 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Productive Group Work 8:00am - 9:15am

Let's Get (Inter)personal! 10:00am - 11:15am

Google Classroom: On-the-Go Proficiency 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Common Core Standards in the Spanish Classroom 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Leading Student Trips to Europe 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Fostering Critical Thinking Through Authentic Materials 8:00am - 11:00am

Not So Grimm: Teaching Language and Culture Through Folklore 1:00pm - 2:15pm

AP-Style Assesments at Any Level 2:30pm - 3:45pm

My Kids Are Learning?!? Energetic Songs for Teaching German 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Student-Generated Activities 8:00am - 9:15am

Assessing Performance: Moving from Chapter Tests to Authentic Assessments 10:00am - 11:15am

Language Proficiency + Cultural Intelligence (CQ) = Global Citizen 1:00pm - 2:15pm

America's Languages in the 21st Century: The National Commission and what MaFLA... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Creating and Incorporating Proficiency and Performance Speaking Assessments Thro... 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Integrate Engaging Activities to Advance Mandarin Chinese Proficiency 8:00am - 11:00am

Fun Activities Based on Critical Thinking Skills 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Learning by Doing: Engaging Students in Chinese Language Learning & Engaging Act... 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Perform the Culture: Integration of Behavioral Culture into Instruction 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Finding a Balance Between Paper and Pencil and t... 4:30pm - 5:15pm

Art as a Means to Cultural and Linguistic Learning 8:00am - 9:15am

¡A Compartir! Raising Proficiency in the AP Spanish Class 10:00am - 11:15am

Holding the Ladder: Guiding Teachers in Proficiency-Based Assessment 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Contextualizing U.S. Latino Literature for AP Spanish Literature and Culture 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Songs, Games and Activities for the French FLES Classroom 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Bye-Bye to Teaching by the Book 8:00am - 9:15am

Promoting French Through Films 10:00am - 11:15am

Reading Paintings, Reading Poems: Strategies to Build Proficiency in the French... 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Cartoons, Comics and Satire as Prompts for Conversations 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Study Abroad: Choose France! 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Contemporary Italy: What To Learn, How To Teach It 8:00am - 11:00am

The WHYs, HOWs, and WHAT THENs of Flipping your Classroom 10:00am - 11:15am

La scrittura e gli errori: come e quanto correggere la produzione scritta degli... 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Creating Materials for AP Italian Language and Culture 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Appy Hour + (75 mins of Appy Fun) 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Transform Your Level I into a 90% Target Language Class! 8:30am - 9:45am

Replacing Traditional Assessments with Group Projects by Using Authentic Materia... 10:00am - 11:15am

Planting the Seeds of Proficiency in Elementary and Middle School 8:30am - 9:45am

Winning AP Tools and Techniques for Both French and Spanish 10:00am - 11:15am

The Self-Driving Classroom or: How I Learned to Love Problem-Based Learning (PBL... 11:30am - 12:45pm

Connecting Practice to Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom 8:15am - 11:15am

Using Songs to Develop Cultural Awareness and Oral Proficiency 8:30am - 9:45am

Data-Driven Foreign Language Teaching, Assessment and Programming 10:00am - 11:15am

We Are All Foreign Language Teachers of Literacy 11:30am - 12:45pm

Curriculum Design with Culture at the Core 8:15am - 11:15am

Students as Teachers: Using Teaching Assistants in Immersion Language Classes 8:30am - 9:45am

Puerto Rico: Building Cultural Competence Through Different Genres 10:00am - 11:15am

If I Were You: Connecting Linguistic Proficiency and Intercultural Competency 11:30am - 12:45pm

Data Analysis Makeover: From 4-Letter Word to 4-Star Practice 8:30am - 9:45am

The Importance of Literature in Foreign Language Classes of All Levels 10:00am - 11:15am

MathLA at MaFLA 11:30am - 12:45pm

Nunc Est Scribendum: Writing for Mastery 8:30am - 9:45am

NUMMI ET HISTORIA 10:00am - 11:15am

Classical Association of Massachusetts (CAM) Fall Meeting 11:30am - 12:45pm

STEM in the German Classroom: Language Across the Curriculum 8:30am - 9:45am

Multicultural Germany: Teaching with Afro-German Texts 10:00am - 11:15am

AATG Massachusetts Chapter Annual Meeting 11:30am - 12:45pm

Preparing for the AP Cultural Comparison Task in Spanish III, IV and AP 8:30am - 9:45am

The Use of Technology and Culture in the Spanish Classroom 10:00am - 11:15am

Proficiency Guidelines Through a Task-Based Approach and Web Tools 11:30am - 12:45pm

Skit as Proficiency-oriented Summative Assessment 8:30am - 9:45am

Fun Chinese Class with Paper-Folding 10:00am - 11:15am

Using Images and Topic-Specific Rhymes to Improve Chinese Teaching 11:30am - 12:45pm

Teaching Culture 10:00am - 11:15am

Language and Identity: le français au Québec 8:30am - 9:45am

Alliance Française of Boston Award for Middle School Teachers of French 10:00am - 11:15am

AATF Presents: Advocacy, Activities and Action 11:30am - 12:45pm

World Languages: Full STEAM Ahead 10:00am - 11:15am

MITA Annual Meeting 11:30am - 12:45pm