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Presenters:听 Bill Heller, Dr. Joanne O鈥橳oole, Dr. Lori Langer de Ramirez

Original webinar date & time:听 Tuesday, February 25th, 2025, 4:00-5:00 pm via Zoom

The Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages (OBEWL) of the 91社区 (91社区) presents this next webinar in its 2025 Professional Learning Series:听 Spiraling Instruction for Continued Proficiency Growth through Checkpoint B (Modern Languages).听 This webinar is offered free of charge for world language educators and administrators working and studying in New York State educational institutions.听 One (1) hour of CTLE credit offered.

Webinar description: 听Checkpoint B builds on proficiency attained in Checkpoint A and establishes a foundation for continued proficiency development. In this session, participants will examine ways to spiral instruction through Checkpoint B. The workshop will provide a brief overview of the performance indicators for Intermediate proficiency targets and consider themes that incorporate the four new Checkpoint B topics to provide additional cultural contexts. Attendees will also look at key curriculum elements including authentic text types appropriate for enacting Interpretive tasks and the language toolbox needed to carry out Interpersonal and Presentational language functions.

Click here to download the webinar flyer.

Click to access the Handouts folder from the webinar.

Click to access the recording of the webinar.

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Post-assessments听(Coming soon!)

To receive a certificate of completion (including a CTLE certificate), NYS educators must view the recording of the webinar (see link above) in its entirety and then answer at least seven out of ten questions correctly on the post assessment.听 If the minimum required score (7 out of 10) is achieved, the educator will receive a certificate via email听within an hour.听 For the convenience of our World Language educators, there are multiple versions of the post assessment available, should the required score not be achieved on the first attempt.听 Educators may take each version of the post assessment听once.

Important notes:

1. Educators may take each version of the post assessment听once.听听Credit will not be given for taking a single version of the post assessment more than once.听
2. Credit will not be given for听more than one passing score听on any of the post assessments for a webinar (listed below)听in a single academic year.听听
3. Educators may receive credit for viewing the webinar recording and passing a post assessment once in each academic year and are encouraged to take a different version of the post assessment on a yearly basis to review and test their knowledge of the webinar's content.听
4. It is the responsibility of the individual educator to keep track of the information on the professional learning they complete each year, including the number of CTLE hours.
5. Questions about this webinar or the post assessments, should be directed to OBEWL at (518) 473-7505 or听nysworldlanguages@gmail.com.

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Webinar Summary

# of attendees: 368
# of CTLE certificates issued:听 301
# of certificates of attendance issued: 67
# of organizations represented by attendees:听 TBD

341 participants from district schools
11 participants from charter schools
6 participants from non-public schools
3 participants from colleges or universities
5 participants from BOCES or RBERNs
2 participants from a government agency

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Quotes from participants

鈥淲OW! Guau! The Dream Team should be named the ADT (The Amazing Dream Team). Thanks you!!!!!鈥� ~ Marisol M.-W.

鈥淭his was an amazing webinar! Very informative and the Thematic instruction tips with specific units in mind will be absolutely essential in my planning.鈥澨� ~ Michelangelo D.

鈥淭hank you!! As always this was an eye opening workshop. 听I learned such wonderful tips.鈥澨� ~ Monica L.

鈥淭his was an awesome session today. It was extremely informative and interesting. 听Thank you presenters. 听You have been a great source of information.鈥澨� ~ Deborah G.

鈥淚 wanted to thank you all for facilitating this webinar. It was very informative and I like how it explained everything that we are expected to do as teachers and I just love having that clarity which we got from this presentation.鈥澨� ~ Renee W.-S.

鈥淢uchas gracias, this was by far one of my favorite presentations...so much great content.鈥澨� ~ Karen D.

鈥淎nother wonderful presentation. Thank you for the unit samples. Those were great! 鈥澨� ~ Tamar C.-R.
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For more information on professional learning webinars for world language educators, please visit our website.

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Dr. Joanne O'Toole is a Professor of Modern Language Education in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at SUNY Oswego. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the 91社区 World Languages Content Advisory Panel and the Principal Investigator of the NYS World Language Standards Initiative. Joanne has served in several world language leadership positions including NYSAFLT President and NECTFL Director, and is a regular presenter at national, regional, state, and local conferences. Joanne is a certified teacher of Spanish and taught Spanish for 16 years prior to entering post-secondary education.

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