Topic: Formative Assessment: Ongoing Feedback For Student Development
Presenter: Sarah Pavy
Synopsis:
This session will focus on a range of tools and strategies to provide feedback to students every day in classrooms that encourages self-awareness, support skill development and enhance student approaches to learning languages. The tools shared will encourage student self-reflection, active participation in their learning and help them to monitor their own progress. These tools also provide rich insights to teachers that can feed back into their planning and teaching.

Topic: Teaching Languages Effectively: How Can Artificial Intelligence Assist Our Teachers?
Presenter: Dr Jing Qi
Synopsis:
Participants will gain an understanding of what AI is, and what AI systems and programs have been and can be used in teaching and learning languages.

Topic: Engaging Students and Managing Behaviour: Facing the Challenges of Language Classrooms
Presenter: Sarah Pavy
Synopsis:
This session will focus on how to manage student behaviour in the Languages classroom. The session will look to address common issues through planning and preparation of lessons and activities (including lesson starters and types of tasks), the language used to develop positive and respectful classes, and specific tips and strategies to reduce potential for misbehaviour. This includes a focus on tasks and approaches to engage students in the learning. There is no magic solution, but the aim of this session is to provide teachers with simple and easy-to-implement strategies that help to prevent and overcome some common causes of misbehaviour. Teachers will have the opportunity to develop an Action Plan to help try to get on top of a ‘tricky class’ that they can take back to school for implementation.