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WEBINAR LIBRARY
ENGAGING YOUNG LEARNERS WITH PROJECTS

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DR. JODI CRANDAL
AUTHOR

OVERVIEW

Projects provide an active, interactive, and creative way for learners to use their language and express themselves. They engage learners in multi-sensory experiences that contextualize both content and language. Projects provide concrete examples of what they have been learning, and they can share these projects with others (the class, their friends and families, or their school). They appeal to a variety of learning styles and can be done individually or with partners.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the steps for a variety of successful projects including: creating family posters or photo-autobiographies, conducting surveys or experiments and sharing the results, creating brochures or posters that support academic content and involve critical thinking, planning a TV show or video, and making puppets or designing a new machine.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall is Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she co-directed the M.A. TESOL Program and established and directed the Ph.D. Program in Language, Literacy, and Culture. She is coauthor of the professional development book Teaching Young Learners English., and a series editor for the Our World suite of materials for young learners, including Welcome to Our WorldOur World, and Explore Our World, and Impact, a program for teens.

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