The annual fall MAIN Event will be held in the Learning Commons at Groveland Elementary School (Spanish immersion) in Minnetonka, 17310 Minnetonka Boulevard.
The morning will include a welcome gathering with a chance to see two new videos about immersion education in Minnesota, break-out sessions on a variety of immersion topics for preschool, primary, and intermediate educators as well as administrators, and a grade level networking session.
Agenda
8:30-9:00 Check-in, coffee and social hour
9:00-9:30 Welcome and videos from MAIN and CARLA
9:45-10:45 Break out sessions (more coming)
- Sharing Our Model: Joyce Preschool's Bilingual Curriculum
- How Can I Get Them Speaking? Authentic Language Opportunities for the Immersion Classroom (1-3)
- Making Spanish Real (K-4, applicable to other L2)
- Spanish Immersion Language in Math (3-7)
- Musical Math (3-8)
- Integrating Technology: SmartBoards, iPads, USB Microphones (elementary)
- Active Chinese Learning: Games, Songs, Smartboard Ideas (elementary)
- Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading in Chinese Immersion (elementary)
- Staffing Immersion Schools: What Can MAIN Do? (administrators)
- Facilitating Collaboration in Two-Way Immersion Classrooms (current research)
- Corrective Feedback (current research)
11:00-12:00 Grade-level networking with facilitators from Minnetonka immersion programs
Deadline for registration is Monday, October 14, 2013.