2022 Program coming soon
Conference Overview
The Comprehensible Midwest Conference empowers teachers to create joyful, personalized, effective and equitable language acquisition through instruction based on comprehensible input. As a collaborative community, we safely support teachers to connect with each other and to teach in ways that respond to students' cultural and linguistic identities. Every year we bring in some of the nation’s foremost trainers in teaching with comprehensible input while simultaneously lifting up and supporting the voices of local and regional teachers who are striving to make their language instruction more personalized, inclusive and equitable.
Any teacher of a world language, regardless of context, who wishes to increase engagement, joy and effectiveness of their teaching could benefit from attending Comprehensible Midwest. If you believe that each of your students can acquire language and want to learn how to increase retention over time and overall achievement, developing real and measurable fluency, then this conference is for you.
Any teacher of a world language, regardless of context, who wishes to increase engagement, joy and effectiveness of their teaching could benefit from attending Comprehensible Midwest. If you believe that each of your students can acquire language and want to learn how to increase retention over time and overall achievement, developing real and measurable fluency, then this conference is for you.
Featured Workshops
CI Midwest is featuring nationally recognized presenters from our region - among the nation's best. They are master teachers, experts in creating joyful, inclusive, personalized language acquisition environments. Nearly all teach full-time and dedicate their extra time to training teachers. What they have to share with you is what really works with their students.
These Featured Workshops are one of the highlights of the schedule - 3 hour intensive workshops each morning.
This year's Featured Presenters are:
These Featured Workshops are one of the highlights of the schedule - 3 hour intensive workshops each morning.
This year's Featured Presenters are:
A. C. Quintero | Amy Roe | Haiyun Lu
Justin Slocum-Bailey | Diane Neubauer | Kristy Placido
Justin Slocum-Bailey | Diane Neubauer | Kristy Placido
Featured Workshop Titles:
- Breaking down Thematic Unit barriers With Acquisition Driven Instruction
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the World Language Classroom
- Acquisition Driven Instruction: More than just stories!
- Using Our Voices, Movement, Faces, and Spaces to Support Sustained Learning
- A Novel Approach: Teaching for acquisition with leveled readers
- Interacting with Students through Use of the Target Language: Topic Development, Engagement, and Comprehension
- CI in the Elementary Classroom
- How to Share What Works, in a Way that Sticks
- Using Videos of Teaching to Observe & Improve Classroom Interaction
Breakout Sessions
Do you have Comprehensible Input skills you are ready to share with other teachers?
Each accepted session will receive ONE conference registration free of charge and lunch for one person on us, as a token of our appreciation for your commitment to helping teachers better their ADI skills.
Check back here to submit a session for the upcoming CiMidwest.
Deadline for sessions submissions is September 30, 2022.
Each accepted session will receive ONE conference registration free of charge and lunch for one person on us, as a token of our appreciation for your commitment to helping teachers better their ADI skills.
Check back here to submit a session for the upcoming CiMidwest.
Deadline for sessions submissions is September 30, 2022.
