In this presentation, Bertha discusses the practical application of AI-generated lesson plans and writing prompts to streamline teaching efforts. She highlights their potential as time-saving tools and emphasizes the flexibility for teachers to customize and fine-tune these resources. Additionally, Bertha introduces a valuable, free tool designed to support learners, especially those with individualized education plans (IEPs), in developing social-emotional learning and decision-making skills. Lastly, Bertha explores the use of brain breaks as efficient and effective tools for optimizing the language teaching and learning experience.

In this session, Bertha showcases different strategies to work with your students in class that will help improve the atmosphere, achieve better competency for your students, create a class community, and enhance buy-in in your language class.

En la sesión de hoy, Bertha nos hablará sobre la educación socioemocional de ayer y hoy, y también sobre cómo aplicarla en el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera. Compartirá su experiencia en el uso de Canva para crear diversas actividades para sus estudiantes, y presentará ejemplos de aulas donde se ha implementado el aprendizaje socioemocional. Al final, nos proporcionará información sobre dónde encontrar recursos adicionales.

In this presentation, Bertha encourages us to use a variety of musical genres to build a bridge between learners and artists.  She shares activities such as the use of word clouds, lyric sequencing, traffic light annotation, tweets and Flipgrid presentations that can be used to bring joy to the classroom through music.

Bertha talks about her experience of using Google Jamboard with the students in her Spanish classes. She starts with a basic explanation, and then gives step by step instructions for creating your first Jamboard. Her presentation includes plenty of examples together with links which will help you experiment with different templates. There is also a ‘troubleshooting’ section, and suggestions for using Jamboard with face-to-face classes as well as online.

Bertha shares ways to create and develop a successful language program. She shares 3 steps with detailed explanations on how these are effective. These steps begin with forming a team, building relationships with those that are involved with your members, and creating an online presence to connect with everyone. Towards the end, she provides recommendations on how to maintain the success of your language program. 

Bertha shares practices and tips about sustaining a proficiency mindset among students throughout the school year. She discusses how maximizing classroom spaces helps. She also talks about activities that could be done from the 1 st week and how to use the suggested bulletin board posts in each activity to maintain a proficiency mindset. There are examples of these activities throughout the presentation.

Bertha Delgadillo explains what she means by ‘No-Prep Foldables’ and clarifies the benefits they offer to both students and teachers. She also shares practical examples of a variety of different types of foldables, together with suggestions for integrating them into the classroom and tips for setting them up successfully.