SAVE THE DATE!

February 27, 2010

IN-NELL’s Annual Conference
at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis

Featuring Laura Terrill

“World Language Teachers are Reading and Writing Teachers”

World language teachers are integral to the development of strong reading and writing skills in today’s schools. This workshop will focus on a wide variety reading strategies designed to enhance student engagement with the text while strengthening vocabulary acquisition. Participants will also examine how they can apply the six traits of writing to advance an individual student’s writing skills. This strategy-based approach to the teaching of reading and writing will allow teachers to more easily differentiate to meet individual student needs. Come prepared to participate in a variety of instructional activities that require little additional preparation time.

Laura Terrill holds a BA in French from the University of Missouri — St. Louis and a MA in Secondary Administration from Northeast Missouri State University. She taught French at all levels for 21 years before becoming the Coordinator of Foreign Language and English as a Second Language and then, Director of Curriculum in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO before taking early retirement to join her husband in Puerto Rico. She has taught methods courses at Washington University and has been active at the local, state, regional and national levels. She served as the Central States delegate to the ACTFL Board and was the 2006 Program Chair for the ACTFL Convention. She most recently taught French at Lawrence Central in Indianapolis. She is currently working as an independent consultant.

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