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Previous workshops
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Workshops for Language Teachers: Write Genre-based Stories for Novice to Intermediate Proficiency Audiences
Location: Agen, France
​Date: 2019 July 25
Learning outcomes for attendees:

• See “learners” as genuine audiences; identifying needs in both entertainment and comprehension;
• Design stories by genre for novice & intermediate audiences (Historical Fiction, Romance, Dystopian Sci-fi & Horror);
• Learn easy & fun ways to write stories. Attendees will learn to use a template to create a new story!

Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Summer Summit: Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching (CCLT) (link)
Date: ​2019 June 1-2: 

• Day 1: Intermediate track, planning for "Story-asking"
• Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)
  • History of teacher practices in TPRS
  • Demonstration in Chinese: story-asking and reading (simplified Chinese characters)
• Research Roundtable
• (I also served on the planning team)
  

Hawai‘i Department of Education (HIDOE): "Teaching Language for Proficiency, Efficiently!" (link)
Date: 2019 May 11 & 25

• Backward design in three steps
• Clarifying learning outcomes over time with connections to research
• Formative & summative assessments & rubric design
• Instructional tasks & interactional practices
• Live coaching & peer feedback​