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Saturday, September 30, 2006
FLA-OC Fall Workshop: THE 2ND ANNUAL JAMBOREE!
Sponsored by CLTA Affiliates FLA-OC, FLASD, IEFLA, and MCLASC!
Esperanza High School, 1830 N. Kellogg Dr., Anaheim 92807

Saturday, November 5, 2005
CLTA/FLAOC/FLASD/IEFLA/MCLASC FALL JAMBOREE!
Esperanza High School, 1830 N. Kellogg Dr., Anaheim 92807

Saturday, October 16, 2004
FLA-OC Fall Workshop with Cynthia Leathers (CLTA Teacher of the Year)
“Play It Again, Ma’am: Entertaining Activities to Teach all Four Skills and Motivators to Keep Students Speaking in the Target Language”
Costa Mesa Community Center, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

FLA-OC is extremely proud to present Cynthia Leathers for a 3-hour Saturday conference. Mrs. Leathers is a high school teacher and winner of multiple awards and most recently, recipient of the CLTA Teacher of the Year. Cynthia is active in COACH and FLA-OC. She presents frequently at the state conference and is in high demand for presentations to local affiliates. We feel privileged that Mrs. Leathers will be spending a Saturday with us. She will share activities that her students want to do again and again as well as entertaining ways to teach all four skills and motivators to keep students speaking in the target language. Her workshop will also include ideas for all areas of lesson planning: input, guided and independent practice and assessment. The ideas will be appropriate for all levels and all languages. From high tech to no prep, there will be something for everyone!

Please join us for a fun, informative and relaxing Saturday morning. Bring a friend!

Saturday, October 11, 2003
FLA-OC Fall Workshop with Lewie Johnson (CLTA)
Activities that model both the new California Foreign Language Framework and the National Standards
Esperanza High School, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

A big thanks to Lewie Johnson, who graciously presented at our FLA-OC Fall 2003 Workshop! His ideas were well received and worth the time and money invested by those of us who attended.

Lewie focused on activities that modeled both the new California Foreign Language Framework and the National Standards. Especially noteworthy was his five-step lesson using a South American Mayan Indian dialect as his means of communicating.

The participants all appreciated being placed in a position of "helplessness" or starting from ground zero with a completely unfamiliar language.

We could all empathize with our level One high school students, who feel exactly the same way—initially a bit lost and also a bit frustrated. As you can see by the photos, the "class" got really involved with TPR or with what I love to call Romper Room Language.

One of the CSUF student teachers, Elizabeth Geiss, summed her experience this way: "I felt that the workshop was excellent because it helped me realize even more so the great importance of speaking in the target language. There is, however, a trick-- one must use an enormous amount of TPR, visuals and repetition. In addition, the teacher must have a fair amount of patience and enthusiasm for the subject or he/she will quickly lose the necessary vigor to teach a foreign language.

The time at the workshop was well spent because it greatly reinforced the importance of using and implementing the 5 Step Communicative Lesson Plan: Setting the Stage, Input, Guided Practice, Independent Practice and Closure. We witnessed a demonstration of the lesson plan format through learning Mayan. It was truly fun because we were active and intrigued. Also, we had a great incentive for participation: prizes.

All in all, the workshop was smooth, efficient and highly beneficial."

Saturday, October 26, 2002
FLA-OC Fall Workshop with Rich Sayers (Prentice Hall)
Esperanza High School, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The Foreign Language Association of Orange County is pleased to report that our Fall 2002 Workshop was a hit! We invited Rich Sayers to present some interesting, hands-on strategies for all languages and levels. The workshop was very well attended and received.

Rich Sayers has been an educator in world languages for 24 years. He taught Spanish at Niwot High School in Longmont, CO for 18 years, where he taught levels 1 through A.P. As a classroom teacher Rich employed a variety of different teaching methods to get his students actively involved in communication. Because of his creative and energetic teaching, Rich was selected as one of the Disney Company's foreign language teacher honorees for the American Teacher Awards in 1991.

In 1993, Rich co-authored the Spanish textbook program PASO A PASO. Later he became a national consultant with Scott Foresman/Addison Wesley and currently, with Prentice Hall. As a consultant, he works with school districts all over the United States and is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences. Rich has presented at CLTA for the last five years and was a speaker for the fall meeting of the Inland Empire association.