OCT. 2022 - HALT Symposium Chair
HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS (HALT)
CULTURAL GLOBAL CONNECTION IN THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS
The Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) is a group of language teachers from K-12 and higher education institutions in Hawai‘i who work to maintain the highest standards in teaching languages.
As a Fall Symposium Chair, I successfully created a cultural symposium with the collaboration of HALT officers. I invited professionals and experts to participate as guest speakers and presenters.
2022 Conferences
La cultura y la diversidad en la clase de español
Valorando las raíces y las diversidades de la cultura Hispana en el aprendizaje del idioma español.
Global Language and Culture Conference
The Punahou School
Honolulu HI.
June 28-30, 2022
104th AATSP Annual Conference
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
JULY 9-12, 2022Previous Conferences
Social Just in the world language classroom
This subject aims to address the lack of influence related to social justice in the world language classroom and the available tools that can be used to support students.
ACTFL2021 PRESENTATION
Presenting in the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language (ACFTL) 2021
Afro-Descendants: Connections and meaningful representation in any language
Afro-descendants: Connections and Meaningful Representation in Any Language Conference. The subject open ideas of identifying connections between your target languages/cultures and Afro-descendants.
Also, create entry points to target-language classroom discussions that include meaningful Afro-descendant representation.
Aiming for 90% Target Language use and making it comprehensible
I have the honor to present with a group of World Language leaders in this course providing educators with resources and strategies that includes:
Share comprehensible input experiences.
Gain practice with circling technique.
Implement circling in Movie Talk
Representing the world language leadership team
Representing the World Language Leadership Team at the HIDOE WL Symposium.
January 12, 2020 at William McKinley High School.