NCDPI World Language Winter Series Webinar
Analysis of the World Language Essential Standards
Structure & Instructional Toolkit Components
4:00 - 5:30 pm on Wednesday, January 20
The World Language Winter Webinar Series gets underway this week with the first broadcast focused on the structure of the World Language Essential Standards. We'll be looking at an analysis of research, impact, and lessons learned from implementing proficiency-based standards, along with a comparison of other state and national standards to what we use in North Carolina.
Join us on Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 pm by submitting this form (also linked on the graphic at right) to register.
All K - 20 World Language administrators, teachers, post-secondary instructors, professors, and researchers are welcome to join us!
Instructional Toolkit Components
We will also be examining the Instructional Toolkit components as part of the Winter Webinar Series. All of these tools are posted on the Standards page or tab of the World Languages Google Site. For the January 20 broadcast, please download the following Instructional Toolkit resources for our discussion that apply to the language(s) you teach and/or supervise:
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Administrator Guides - These are "Look-For" documents created for principals and other administrators that have an overview of each K-12 program, information about our state standards and goals, and a compilation of best practices.
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Clarifying Objectives by Course Outcomes (COCOs or CO2s) Documents - These are standards-based curriculum writing documents used locally by individual, department, school, or district. They are available for all courses in our state standards and posted on K-12 language-specific pages with explanations of each program woven throughout. Each page also includes details about dual language/immersion (DL/I) literacy and heritage language programs, as well as links to advanced learning programs such as AP, CIE, and IB if applicable for the language.
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Renewal Credits & Archived Materials Available
Individuals who actively participate in the live broadcast of a webinar from NCDPI World Languages can earn contact hour(s) towards a CEU for licensure renewal. The contact hour comes in the form of an email with an attached certificate approximately one week after the broadcast.
Note: Local Education Agencies (LEAs) or districts and charter schools, also called Public School Units (PSUs), must approve professional development offerings.
An archive of the materials from each webinar (presentation slides, handouts, hyperlinks, etc.) and a recording of the broadcast are posted approximately one week following the live broadcast so that these materials can be used and/or adapted for local professional development.
Please see all of the 2020 - 2021 webinar offerings posted on the Webinar Series Information page of the World Languages Google Site, including all of the broadcasts for the Winter and Spring Series.
Upcoming World Language PD
Professional development (PD) offered by various entities are listed in chronological order on the K-20 PD List page on the World Languages Google Site. These opportunities include conferences, institutes, meetings, online courses, webinars, workshops, etc. that may be of interest to World Language teachers and administrators. Currently, there are upcoming PD opportunities posted into Summer 2021.
Note: The inclusion of any professional development opportunity on this list from other entities does NOT constitute endorsement or verification by the NCDPI.
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FLAG Spring 2021 Webinar Series
The Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG), in collaboration with the Center for Urban Language Teaching & Research (CULTR) at Georgia State University, is offering a series of free webinars from January - June. These 1-hour broadcasts feature a variety of topics and speakers with a 30-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute question and answer or Q&A.
The Free Fun For Fabulous FLAG Friends has dozens of topics to choose from and involves World Languages teachers from Georgia and across the Southeast, including North Carolina. Please go to http://bit.ly/FFFFFF2021 to learn more and sign-up for the webinars you want to see.
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NCDPI Self-paced Canvas Courses
Various NCDPI Teams have posted Canvas courses in the Home Base NCEES PD space, including the following for language educators:
The linked course titles above go to NCDPI Google Site pages with step-by-step instructions on how to enroll in these courses, which are each worth 1 CEU. Details are also available about how to download the course(s) from Canvas Commons if you prefer to offer them locally or if you are outside NC's Home Base system in an independent/private school, a community college, or a higher education organization.
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