Laura Terrill is a national consultant who 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. She has taught methods courses in St. Louis and in Indianapolis and continues to present at the local, state, regional and national levels. She has served on the Board of Directors for Central States and ACTFL. She is the recipient of the Founders Award for Central States, has been named as the NADSFL District Supervisor of the Year, and has received the ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership. She recently co-authored the Second Edition of ACTFL Keys to Planning for Learning: Effective Curriculum, Unit and Lesson Design.
Laura Terrill
Independent Consultant (IND)
All Sessions by Laura Terrill
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June 27: Pathways to Planning
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TELL: Planning
Designing Learning Plans to Maximize Student Learning
TELL: Planning - <strong>Featured Session</strong>Current research is providing teachers with an increasing knowledge base that can be used to design lessons that maximize learning in the classroom. Identify essential components found in all effective lessons and consider ways to move from teacher-directed activities to those that allow students to demonstrate individual progress toward the learning targets.
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Planning
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June 28: Pathways to Performance & Feedback
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TELL: Performance & Feedback
Creating Meaningful Performance Assessment Tasks
TELL: Performance & Feedback - <strong>Featured Session</strong>Design real-world performance assessment tasks that allow learners to demonstrate how well they are meeting the goals of the unit. Create well-designed tasks that have a purpose and context aligned to the theme, topic, and essential question of the unit. Define task expectations and identify the product or performance that will allow learners to demonstrate growth.
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Helping People Understand Each Other and the World Around Them
The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is a unit of the University of Maryland. For more than three decades, we have focused on partnerships with educational institutions and organizations, governments agencies, organizations, and individual scholars and policy makers. Our primary means of realizing our mission is through strengthening people’s knowledge of world languages, especially those less commonly taught in the United States.