2017 NSW Spanish Language Teachers Conference - Agenda 2017

8:30 9:00 Registration and book display

Welcome
Mr Toms Fraile, Counsellor for Education, Spanish Embassy in Australia and New Zealand
9:00 - 9:05 Mrs Raquel Romero, Director, Instituto Cervantes
Mr Antonio Boschiero, President, Spanish Teachers Association of NSW
Mrs Cristina del lamo, Spanish Education Advisor

Language and culture in languages teaching

9:05 9:45
Mrs Raquel Romero, Director, Instituto Cervantes

Embedding art into the teaching of Spanish

9:45 10:30
Mrs Macarena Gordillo, University of Sydney

How to train your students to succeed in
their speaking examinations
10:30 10:55
Mrs Teresa Alonso-Lasheras, International
Grammar School (Sydney)
Strategies to support vocabulary acquisition in the
primary classroom
Mr Abraham Hernndez, La Trobe University
(Melbourne)

10:55 11:15 Morning Tea

The Art of Flamenco lecture demonstration

11:15 12:15 Mrs Pepa Molina, Flamenco artist, dance teacher and flamencologist
Compaa Pepa Molina, Flamenco musician

Teach Meet

12:15 12:45 Cartoon creator websites (Maxine Acosta); Tell stories using maps (Daniel Santos); Maneras
creativas de usar Padlet - una pizarra en lnea (Heidy Hernndez); Verb bingo (Isabel Marijun);
Grammar is fun (Norma Kopti)

12:45 1:00 Annual General Meeting of the Spanish Teachers Association of NSW

1:00 1:45 Lunch

Strategies to stimulate student motivation in the Spanish language classroom

1:45 2:20
Mr Ral Ocaa-Villegas, Calvary Christian College (Brisbane)

Practising speaking skills in the Spanish language classroom

2:20 3:00
Mr Abraham Hernndez, La Trobe University (Melbourne)

The use of theatre to teach and learn Spanish

3:00 4:00
Shirley Andrews and Mauricio Salinas, Downstage Theatre Company

4:00 4:15 Evaluation