Week 4 :
Personal Information
Greetings from our October 7 Teacher meeting!
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Sorry we didn't catch everybody!
| Photos by Elizabeth and Elke |
SWOT group work:
* Strengths
* Weaknesses * Opportunities * Threats
At the ALC Administrative Team meeting on October 13, the HUB Managers, Ivelise Lugo, Steve Mahoney and Ken English reviewed your SWOT comments together. Although the list below does not include everything you listed, we felt like these were the issues that were brought up consistently. (We even listed the number of times some of them occurred). We discussed them at length.
We identified the issue of technology as being a primary concern, and Ken indicated that he and Steve would investigate the purchase of new laptops for our program.
Strengths - talented staff (5X), professional teachers, library resources (5X),
variety of classes
(3X), motivated students (4X), supportive staff (3X)
Weaknesses- lack of childcare (3X), limited space (5X), technology (5X), making
copies (3X), branch
staff collaboration (3X),
multi-level classes,
assessment(BP 2.0/lack of reading/writing elective) (4X)
Opportunities - variety of classes (2X),
working with branch
staff, vocational classes, math (3X), English for Special
Purposes, outreach, staff development, digital literacy, increased communication within department, online learning, outreach -literacy, expansion
Threats- funding - undocumented, safety (security)
- unsafe neighborhoods, assessment (BP 2.0), losing talent, competing
programs, requirement for student documentation -social security
number, space for instruction - disruptions for renovations/repairs
Thank you for participating in this valuable exercise!
Do you have comments or suggestions? Please share!
Weaknesses- lack of childcare (3X), limited space (5X), technology (5X), making copies (3X), branch staff collaboration (3X), multi-level classes, assessment(BP 2.0/lack of reading/writing elective) (4X)
Opportunities - variety of classes (2X), working with branch staff, vocational classes, math (3X), English for Special Purposes, outreach, staff development, digital literacy, increased communication within department, online learning, outreach -literacy, expansion
Threats- funding - undocumented, safety (security) - unsafe neighborhoods, assessment (BP 2.0), losing talent, competing programs, requirement for student documentation -social security number, space for instruction - disruptions for renovations/repairs
Thank you for participating in this valuable exercise!
Do you have comments or suggestions? Please share!
WARM UPS
4 Fast Fun Fillers
No Prep Warm Up Activities
Englishclub.com Warmups
Fluentu.com ESL Speaking Activities for Adults
Dave's ESL Cafe: Icebreakers
GOOGLE
RESOURCES
From the Free Technology for
Teachers Blog:
**Comic Strips with Google Slides
With a little
creativity your students can create comic strips in Google Slides. Google
Slides contains all of the tools that students need in order to create, share,
and print comic strips. The best part of creating a comic strip in Google
Slides is that students can collaborate on the process of making a comic strip
story.
**This is a
useful blog post from Free Technology for Teachers about
TECHNOLOGY TIP:
Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary
learnersdictionary.com/
Clear
and simple definitions in basic American English from North America's leading
language experts. More usage examples than any other dictionary.
Available as a free website and a free
Smartphone App.
Tell your students about it in class (or,
if you have a projector set up, look up a few words together) and encourage
students to use it outside of class. It might be good to tell advanced students
to only look up select words, we've seen students trying to look up everything.
SONGS IN
CLASS:
Elke will add
a few songs-in-class activities this cycle.
You can use
them as a warm-up or transition in between other activities. If you have a
projector and screen, great, if not, speakers and an iphone/Smartphone work,
too.
Songs can fit
the current curriculum topic or grammar point.
#1
Supertramp -
The Logical Song (1979)
Level:
Advanced
Ventures
connection: Ventures 4 Student Book, p. 8 (Parts of speech: adjectives/adverbs)
Ventures Arcade: Level 4, Unit 1, "Parts of Speech" (Two exercices: adjectives/adverbs)
All song/adjective resources below are on the Week 1/Personal Information Wiki:
Download the GAPFILL-PDF
EXCERPT:
Adjective order is a great follow up
activity.
Here's are three pictures (all jpg downloads on the week 1 wiki).
  
If you would like to see more
activities here, and for different levels, please let us know :)
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From
the Oxford University Press English Language Teaching Global Blog
Rigor, Relevance, and Respect for Beginning Adult
English Learners
Coping with complexity is integral to our success as learners, workers, parents, caregivers, engaged citizens, and community members. If the tasks, texts, and technology we navigate in the 21st century can be challenging and even maddening for the fluent English speaker, imagine the situation of the adult English learner!
Call for Contributions: New Ways in Teaching Grammar, second edition
From the TESOL website:
The upcoming edition of New Ways in Teaching Grammar will feature the latest
collection of form-focused activities developed by ESL/EFL professionals for
classrooms in a variety of settings and for students of all levels. These
communicative grammar-based activities will motivate students to use and master
grammatical forms for speaking and writing in high school, higher-ed, or IEP
classrooms. The lesson plans may include digital technology or Internet
resources, as this volume will have a companion online resource page. We look
forward to receiving your lesson plan ideas!
SHOW US THE LOVE!
One of the only ways we can know if you like what we are
doing is if you make a comment on our blog page. Like our blog? Are
there topics you would like us to add? Please comment!
Would you like to contribute something? A link, teaching tip, other? Any time!
Thank you, we really appreciate your feedback!
Have a great week!!!
Elke & Elizabeth
Very nice edition--thanks for all of this!
ReplyDeleteThe Oxford University Press article bases a lesson on
the Family Reunion pages of their Picture Dictionary.
Wish we could give all our beginner students a copy of the OPD
to keep.
Thanks for the feedback, Joan!
ReplyDeleteWhile we can't give books to students (maybe one day...), we'll look for some useful links for students to post in this week's blog. Students may not all have computer access, but most of them have smartphones.