Fluency Matters will train you to become a Language Facilitator.
- The extensive experience of our presenters means that you receive training that is specifically designed to facilitate acquisition with all ages and levels.
- See for yourself why comprehensible input (CI) is necessary to facilitate acquisition and develop FLUENCY.
- Experience a demonstrations of a wide variety of CI-based approaches, including TPRS, story-based instruction, story asking, storytelling, MovieTalk, video-based strategies, music-based techniques, etc.
- Get concise, step-by-step instruction for incorporating TPRS (Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling) and other CI-based approaches into your existing lessons and curriculum.
- Lean how the principles of SLA should inform your classroom practices.
- View video clips of TPRS and TCI strategies in action in real language classrooms.
- Exceed the 90% Target! Experience proven activities that increase student engagement and maximize classroom use of the target language.
- Learn a wide variety of cutting-edge strategies, which raise the bar for student proficiency and overall communicative competence.
- Learn easy-to-implement, effective reading strategies which accelerate language acquisition and increase reading comprehension while developing students who love to read in the target language.
- Learn powerful questioning strategies that can be immediately implemented in any language classroom, regardless of one’s skill / experience with TPRS.
- Learn how to boost your foreign language program and lower attrition rates through powerful, strategies proven to result in acquisition.
- See a variety story-based approaches proven to accelerate and enhance language acquisition.
- Learn and practice easy-to-implement personalization techniques that will engage even your most reluctant language learners.
- Discover innovative and effective reading strategies that will increase comprehension and help students develop a love for reading in the target language.
- Learn tips for creating cognitively-engaging and culturally-connected lessons.
- See how easy it is to improve grammatical accuracy by providing quality input (CI) and extensive level-appropriate reading.
- Learn practical, easy-to-implement strategies that inherently help you accomplish ACTFL’s World Readiness Standards.
- Experience powerful activities and tasks that are so fun, engaging and effective that students won’t even realize they are “learning.”
- Learn how to perform comprehension checks and summative assessments that encourage and guide students to communicate exclusively in the Target Language.
- Discover differentiated questioning techniques that ensure success for even your most hard-to-reach/teach students.
- Learn scaffolded reading techniques that help ALL students–regardless of literacy level and linguistic ability–to reach their full potential.
- Discover effective ways to quickly assess students and develop appropriate rubrics to measure proficiency.
- Learn quick and easy tricks to convert your classroom into a language- and culture-rich environment.
- Create a low-stress classroom environment that promotes student confidence and enthusiasm
- Learn how to modify your current foreign language lessons/materials to more effectively meet the needs of your students.
- Learn how to incorporate Fluency Matters’ comprehension-based readers and TPRS books into your existing curriculum.
- Less is more! Learn how to strategically simplify your current lessons to ensure acquisition for all learners.
- Discover innovative ways to organize and prioritize your current collection of instructional strategies to make your lessons even more effective.