Session 1. 10:30am. Room 2
Have you been teaching the same topics for years, or even decades? Have you been using the same sets of resources? Do you feel your enthusiasm and passion waning? You might be experiencing content fatigue.
In this workshop we will examine the traditional tropes and topics covered in Italian classrooms, and consider new approaches and content you can utilise in your lessons to revive yourself and reinspire your students. You will come away with sets of ready-prepared lesson-threads to get you started on your journey.
Olimpia Rosemblum
Anna-Olimpia Rosenblum is a multi-linguist, writer, media and languages teacher. She heads the Languages Department at Padua College on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.
Olimpia is currently undertaking Doctoral Studies and furthering her research on methods of efficient second language acquisition for primary and junior modern language pedagogies. She is currently developing a method called “Visual Listening” involving the presentation of narrated fables and fairy tales using animation and captions to teach second languages.