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AATI K-12 Webinar Series
Entertaining e-learning with Flippity and Padlet
by Enza Antenos
September 19, 2020
11:00 EST
Webinar session description. Create original and innovative games in Italian to motivate students, controlling the content while accommodating diverse learning styles. Games can be used as an entry or exit ticket or a designated activity within the lesson. Flippity provides game templates that are familiar or intuitive and allows students to challenge themselves by demonstrating knowledge of content. Students can reflect and selfreport their progress post game by sharing their results on Padlet! By requiring students to occasionally post game results, teachers will be able to ensure remote participation while simultaneously allowing students to share, comment, and even collaborate while distance/e-learning.
Registration is required no later than September 17, 2020
Use the link below to register for the webinar.
AATI K-12 Webinar Series
Entertaining e-learning with Flippity and Padlet
by Enza Antenos
September 19, 2020
11:00 EST
Webinar session description. Create original and innovative games in Italian to motivate students, controlling the content while accommodating diverse learning styles. Games can be used as an entry or exit ticket or a designated activity within the lesson. Flippity provides game templates that are familiar or intuitive and allows students to challenge themselves by demonstrating knowledge of content. Students can reflect and selfreport their progress post game by sharing their results on Padlet! By requiring students to occasionally post game results, teachers will be able to ensure remote participation while simultaneously allowing students to share, comment, and even collaborate while distance/e-learning.
Registration is required no later than September 17, 2020
Use the link below to register for the webinar.
AATI College and University Webinar Series: Remote Teaching and Learning in Italian Studies
Teaching and Learning Distance Language Courses
with Daniele DeFeo
September 14, 2020
4-5pm EST
Webinar session description.This webinar will create a discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of teaching language courses online, aimed at providing suggestions for a well-balanced distance learning environment for students and teachers alike. It will explore available technologies that are useful towards sound pedagogical methods, focusing on preparing the learner as well as establishing teacher identity. One of the major criticisms levied by students is the quality of online instruction and the inexperience of instructors. This webinar will offer approaches and content to transition instruction to an online setting. Materials from the webinars will be available on the AATI website Resource Tab.
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We will be hosting the webinar on Zoom; please follow the link on the day of the webinar:
Meeting ID: 945 0580 0805
https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94505800805
national italian exam 2020
RESULTS 2020
Results for the NIE 2020 have been sent to participating teachers. If you have not received them, please check your spam folder or contact l.maiellaro@northeastern.edu If you submitted a request for a refund, please contact aati@montclair.edu For more information on the results and a list of the winner, use this page. 
We are happy to inform you that The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed the National Italian Exam on the 2020-2021 NASSP List of Approved Contests, Programs, and Activities for Students.
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Mafla
MaFLA is going virtual through June 2021! While this means that the fall conference has been postponed to 2021 and they will not hold any in-person events during this time, we invite you to join their various virtual professional development events.
Please, visit the MaFLA website for more information. MITA workshop series 2019 - 2020
Join us for our first workshop of the Professional Development Series 2019-2020.
The series is organized by Northeastern University in collaboration with MITA and with the support of the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Check here for upcoming workshops in fall 2020. OUR members' recent publications On language teaching
Giusy Di Filippo and Martina Di Florio, Migrazioni Contemporanee: Testi e Contesti. New York: Edizioni Farinelli, 2017.
Cristina Pausini, Carmen Merolla, Interpretazioni: Italian Language and Culture through Film. Georgetown University Press, 2019.
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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and its Lead with Languages campaign, with the support of Pearson LLC and Language Testing International, commissioned Ipsos Public Affairs to conduct a survey of 1,200 U.S. employers, and the resulting 2019 report, Making Languages Our Business: Addressing Foreign Language Demand Among U.S. Employers, indicates an urgent and growing demand for language skills in the workplace.The report also suggests seven actionable recommendations that U.S. businesses may employ to fully leverage their employees’ language assets and to contribute to fostering a robust future multilingual workforce to better thrive in our global economy.
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