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AATI K-12 Webinar Series
Let AATI help you navigate the beginning of the school year!!!
AATI is proud to announce 4 webinars for K-12 instructors, but Higher Education colleagues are also welcome to attend since each webinar can be adapted to various levels of Italian. All webinars will take place in August.
This is our second webinar.
AATI K-12 Webinar Series
Let AATI help you navigate the beginning of the school year!!!
AATI is proud to announce 4 webinars for K-12 instructors, but Higher Education colleagues are also welcome to attend since each webinar can be adapted to various levels of Italian. All webinars will take place in August.
This is our second webinar.
Edpuzzle: "make any video your lesson"!
Saturday, August 8, 2020. 11:00 EST
What is edpuzzle? Edpuzzle is easy to use. It is a platform that allows students to engage in watching a video and responding to embedded activities created by the teacher. This platform can be used for individualized listening comprehension in all levels and can also be used as an activity during small group breakout sessions during e-learning. Webinar session description: This session will focus on utilizing edpuzzle as a tool for target language auditory and visual aide. The interactive webinar will place you in the seat of the student allowing you to perform hands-on tasks offered through edpuzzle. Once you have experienced the student’s experience, the presenter will guide you on how to create your own edpuzzle activities.
What do I need for the webinar? All links will be provided during the session. At the end of the session attendees will be able to:
MITA will give 1 Professional Development Point to members who decide to participate. If you participate to all 4 AATI webinars, MITA will award a total of 4 PDPs. Please, complete this form to obtain your points.
Registration is required no later than August 6th, 2020
Use the link below to register for the webinar.
Saturday, August 8, 2020. 11:00 EST
What is edpuzzle? Edpuzzle is easy to use. It is a platform that allows students to engage in watching a video and responding to embedded activities created by the teacher. This platform can be used for individualized listening comprehension in all levels and can also be used as an activity during small group breakout sessions during e-learning. Webinar session description: This session will focus on utilizing edpuzzle as a tool for target language auditory and visual aide. The interactive webinar will place you in the seat of the student allowing you to perform hands-on tasks offered through edpuzzle. Once you have experienced the student’s experience, the presenter will guide you on how to create your own edpuzzle activities.
What do I need for the webinar? All links will be provided during the session. At the end of the session attendees will be able to:
- provide video assignments for students to answer on e-learning days
- provide real time activities for student to focus on in breakout sessions while
- the teacher focuses on individual breakout room discussions
- provide feedback to students related to listening comprehension
- provide a vehicle for full class discussion
- have two activities to utilize in the classroom
MITA will give 1 Professional Development Point to members who decide to participate. If you participate to all 4 AATI webinars, MITA will award a total of 4 PDPs. Please, complete this form to obtain your points.
Registration is required no later than August 6th, 2020
Use the link below to register for the webinar.
Teaching Italian remotely
Check out our special resource page dedicated to teaching Italian online.
Il maestro Manzi e la giusta distanza dalla didattica a distanza by Tania Convertini What we can learn by connecting the present with the past when it comes to distance learning. Read this inspiring article by our colleague and member, Tania Convertini. 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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