- - Workshop (50-90 minutes, interactive)
Breaking the Fluency Illusion: Teaching and Learning to Do Language Better Using an IPA (Integrated Performance Assessment) Framework
Facilitator:
Mark Dowell, Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese & Elina Salminen, Assistant Director for Educational Development
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- in-person on Danforth Campus
- Advance registration is required
Event Description
Join us for a dynamic 90-minute workshop that introduces Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) and demonstrates how they can transform and improve language teaching and learning outcomes. We’ll begin with a quick exploration of a IPA-based, semester-long podcast project as an example of how meaningful, authentic tasks can drive student engagement. Then, participants will be guided step-by-step through brainstorming and sketching their own IPA-structured project. Walk away with practical tools, fresh ideas, and a clear plan you can implement right away! Please note: This session is focused on language instruction, so we ask that only instructors who teach (or will teach) languages sign up.
Mark Dowell started teaching Spanish in WUSTL-RLL in 2015 and has been teaching both Spanish and Portuguese classes here since 2018.
If you have questions about this workshop, contact Elina Salminen.