Making Your Language Classroom More Authentic: Materials and Practices
Language learning thrives when students engage with materials and practices that reflect real-world use of the target language. Yet many classrooms rely heavily on textbooks and artificial exercises that, while structured, may not mirror authentic language experiences. This session explores practical strategies for making your classroom more authentic, both in the materials you choose and […]
Ctrl + Alt + Teach: Tech, AI & Sanity-Saving Hacks for Language Teachers
In this fast-paced and relatable session, join a secondary languages teacher and curriculum leader as she shares her favourite ways to use technology, AI, and digital tools to boost student engagement and lighten the teaching load. From low-lift, high-impact strategies to classroom-ready hacks, discover how to make tech work for you—whether you’re wrangling vocab lists, […]
Voice the Language: Empowering Student Engagement and Target Language Output through CLIL-ifying the Language Classroom
How can we help students move beyond translating word for word from English and instead start thinking and communicating in the target language? Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) provides a pathway. By embedding meaningful content into language learning, CLIL gives students authentic reasons to use the target language, shifting away from direct translation and […]
Inclusive Pedagogies 2025 Project Presentations
Neurodiversity refers to the diversity of human minds. This includes the differences between how people think, process information, behave and communicate. So what do today’s Languages classrooms need to look like to be inclusive of neurodiverse students, and ensure that students with Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs) experience success? In 2024, LTV piloted an innovative action-research […]
Reimagining Assessment: Equity, Choice & Technology
This workshop will demonstrate how multiple assessment formats – including written, oral, digital, and project-based tasks – can provide students with varied opportunities to demonstrate their learning. It will also outline the benefits of choice-based and scaffolded assessments in promoting student agency while maintaining curriculum alignment. Scaled tasks and structured supports will be presented as […]
Two Tech-riffic Tools
“Flippity” is a powerful way to get more out of Google Sheets. Create digital activities in this tech-riffic workshop for use in the classroom the next day. “Flippity” is a free program and does not require student or teacher sign up. This workshop explores “Manipulatives” and “Group Game”. Critical thinking skills are demonstrated when creating […]
