Professional Development Webinars
FLENJ is very excited to announce a continuation of Professional Development webinars for the 2015-2016 school year. FLENJ looks forward to providing top quality
webinars to meet the professional development needs of World Language educators in New Jersey and beyond.
Incorporating Social Justice into the World Language Classroom
September 24, 2015

Beth Wassell
Professor, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education
Rowan University College of Education
4:00pm – 5:00pm
This webinar is based on the 2014 book published by ACTFL, Words and Actions: Teaching Language Through the Lens of Social Justice. The webinar will begin by providing tips for teachers on how to integrate social justice into their world language classes. This will be followed by a step-by-step process for adapting typical topics in traditional world language classes to be taught in a contextualized manner through the lens of social justice. Examples will be provided for novice, intermediate, and advanced level classes.