Professional Development Workshops
Virtual Workshops and Training
Avant ADVANCE Online Proficiency Training
The Avant ADVANCE training is an affordable asynchronous online teacher training program on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: One-year license
ADVANCE Together
“ADVANCE Together” provides live coaching and support while you are going through the Avant ADVANCE online language proficiency training.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: One year
Language Proficiency 101
This series presents teachers with a guided opportunity to reflect on their own practice and engage with their colleagues in discussion around their individual reflections. These modules provide an in-depth look at the proficiency descriptors and modes of communication.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Two, pre-recorded asynchronous modules
Introduction to Proficiency for New Language Teachers
New world language teachers will begin their career journeys with the tools needed to empower learners! New teachers will be ready to POWER UP their learners’ language proficiency levels. This virtual series will introduce the proficiency descriptors as well as fundamental and effective practices that engage and motivate learners to use the language.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Three, 1.5-hour sessions
Proficiency in Practice Series
PART ONE: Assessment and Instructional Practices that Lead to Proficiency
PART TWO: Understanding Your Data and Applying Effective Data-Informed Practices
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: One year
Teacher Toolbox Series 1: Advancing Onward
This is a series of seven hybrid learning modules for teachers who have successfully completed the Avant ADVANCE online teacher training. Avant ADVANCE prepares teachers for the next steps from “knowing to doing and learning to practice.”
Format: Hybrid virtual
Timeframe: One year
Teacher Toolbox Series 2: Immersion 101
This is a comprehensive immersion program professional development series. The focus is on collaborative inquiry around core tenets and effective strategies integral to strong dual language immersion programs in grades K-5.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: One year
The Proficiency Cycle: Core Data Strategies
Dive into the four stages of the language learning and teaching Proficiency Cycle: assess, analyze, accelerate, and achieve. Teachers will learn to use data strategies to help guide learners through the cycle.
The first module is free!
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Three, 1-hour sessions and additional discussion time
Sparking JOY: Engaging ALL Learners, ALL the Time in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking, Through a Strong Learning Cycle
Participants will collaborate, share and learn strategies they can take and use in their own instructional practice. They’ll discover engagement tools that help develop language learners’ use of the target language in all four skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking).
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Three, 1.5-hour sessions
Powering Up Proficiency Through Effective, Engaging Strategies
Participants will focus on what programs with strong language proficiency outcomes are doing. They’ll examine their own practices of engaging learners in using the language in all four skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking) and assessing language use for proficiency.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Three, 1.5-hour sessions
Scoring for Proficiency Through Collaborative Team Practices
Participants will focus on applying their understanding of language proficiency levels in order to score learner samples. They’ll use the Avant Benchmarks and Rubric Guide for writing and speaking. This series allows teachers to begin scoring with higher degrees of accuracy, create a common understanding within the department, and plan for ways to provide feedback to the learner using a scoring consensus protocol.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Three, 1.5-hour sessions
Strong Practices, Strong Outcomes, Strong Programs!
Explore best practices that lead to language proficiency with this short virtual series. We will examine national assessment data from language learning programs where students are successfully reaching levels of proficiency that allow them to attain a Seal of Biliteracy or, that inspire them to continue their journey and growth in language proficiency beyond the classroom.
Format: Virtual
Timeframe: Two, 1.5-hour sessions
| Virtual Workshops and Training Pricing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Services Provided | Duration | Delivery Model | Price |
| Avant ADVANCE | 1-year license | Virtual | $299 |
| ADVANCE Together | 6 sessions with an instructor | Virtual | $4,150 |
| Teacher Toolbox Series 1: Advancing Onward | 7 modules 30-60 minutes in length + synchronous discussions | Virtual: synchronous and asychronous | $9200 for up to 25 teachers. Canvas seat license: $12/ participant (required). |
| Teacher Toolbox Series 2: Immersion 101 | 1-year series | Virtual: synchronous and asynchronous | $7,700 - $9,200 for up to 25 teachers. Canvas seat license: $12/participant (required). |
| Proficiency in Practice Series | 12 sessions | Virtual (may be partly in-person, if desired) | $9200 for up to 25 teachers. Canvas seat license: $12/ participant (required). |
| Powering Up Proficiency Through Effective, Engaging Strategies | 3 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $2100 |
| Scoring for Proficiency Through Collaborative Team Practices | 3 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $2100 |
| Engaging ALL Learners, ALL the Time in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking, Through a Strong Learning Cycle | 3 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $2100 |
| Strong Practices, Strong Outcomes, Strong Programs! | 2 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $1400 |
| Language Proficiency 101 | 3 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $2100 |
| Introduction to Proficiency for New Language Teachers | 3 x 1.5-hour sessions | Virtual | $2100 |
Updated June 2023