Week 3
Personal Information
TEACHING TIPS
Myrna Holguin used this fun video with her Harlem BEGINNER Level 1-2 class:
- Lianne Smith told us that the melody is Allen
Sherman's 'Hello Muddah - Hello Faddah.' Warning - If you listen to it, you won't get it out of your head all day :)
It's
great for Simple Present practice.
Myrna first introduced
and practiced daily activities, then had students watch the video multiple
times. The second time watching she stopped after each phrase to have
students repeat. Great practice, especially when followed with a free
practice activity.
If you give students the link (or show them how to access it on their smart phones, they can practice more at home.
Also on the Family Wiki: alc-family.wikispaces.com/home
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Ventures 4
(HIGH INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED)
Great
activities around Learning Styles / Personal Information activities, starting
on p. 12 of the Student Book (also check out additional resources in the
teacher book p. T-172)
Suggested activities:
1.
 · SPEAKING/
LISTENING
. “Many Ways to be Smart” (8
different learning styles, p. 12)
· - Cut out the different learning styles, give
one to each student (make 3 copies of the page, cut outs are enough for 24
students)
· * Each student gets one learning style
· * Teacher reads introduction on page,
discussion of topic as needed.
· * Students mingle, find a partner. Introduce
themselves, talk about the learning style cut out they have. Is it a learning
style that applies to them? Do they know someone who learns that way? (If
students have the same cut out, they discuss it, if they have different ones,
they discuss both and exchange papers before they find a new partner)
· Repeat 2-5 times with different partners (time/2 min per talk, if needed.)
2.
SPEAKING/LISTENING
READING/WRITING
* Pair students by level or hat
draw/partners.
* Ss interview each other about
their learning styles or combination of learning styles. (3-5 min per interview)
* Then each student writes a short paragraph with
topic sentence and details about their partner, 5 min (see Ventures 4 p. 15)
* Feedback: Students exchange their writing with
their interview partner, make suggestions/corrections. Select whole class
share, and/or teacher can correct.
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Five Good Digital Exit Ticket Tools From the
blog Free
Technology for Teachers: One
of the strategies that I use when creating lesson plans is to reflect on the
previous lesson. Part of that reflection includes feedback from students.
This can be done by simply asking students to raise their hands in response
to a "did you get it?" type of question, but I like to have better
record of responses than just a hand count. Here are some tools that can be
used for collecting exit information from students.
Read more
here: 5 Good Digital Exit Tickets
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 Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week –5 Neat Things Students Can Do With Google Drawings
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Google Drawings is one of the tools
in the Google Drive suite that often gets overlooked by students and
teachers. It can be a handy tool if you know how to use it. In the short
video embedded below the Practical Ed Tech blog provides a demonstration of
five things that students can do with Google Drawings. The five things
featured in the video embedded below are:
1. Image cropping
2. Image filtering
3. Image labeling
& commenting
4. Creating custom
word art
5. Creating
& customizing charts and graphs.
Watch the video here: 5 Neat Things Students Can Do with Google Drawings
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LESLLA:
The following is an excerpt
from the TESOL International Blog:
A growing area of expertise within TESOL is teaching English to adults with refugee and immigrant backgrounds who have had interrupted formal education (see TESOL International Association’s website for the Adult Education Interest Section and Refugee Concerns Interest Section). Sometimes, these learners are referred to as SIFE (students with interrupted formal education), but discussions and workshops about SIFE tend to focus on young learners and adolescents. For adults, the acronym that is becoming more widely used is LESLLA. But before I spell out what LESLLA stands for, I’d like to share some background information.
To read the entire post, click here: LESLLA
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ELT Best Practices: Getting Your TESOL
Conference Proposal Accepted
Thinking
about writing a proposal for the TESOL Conference? Read here for some practical
advice: Getting Your TESOL Proposal Accepted
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Literacy Assistance Center
Friday,
October 14, 2:00-5:00pm
I’m excited to present two workshops at the
Literacy Assistance Center - Elke
Audience:
ESOL instructors, ESOL coordinators & Program managers
WORKSHOP: USING SONGS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE
CLASSROOM
The
universal appeal of music makes songs and music videos great teaching tools.
This hands-on workshop introduces different practices to encourage inside and
outside of class learning with songs. Ten activities incorporate all four
skills, build vocabulary in lexical chunks and address differences in digital
literacy. No musical talent required.
This
workshop is FREE. Click HERE to reserve a seat.
COMING UP ON FRI, NOVEMBER 18, 10:00am-1:00pm:
Creative Student Stories for Different Levels and Curriculum Requirements
Click HERE to reserve a seat.
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Important Dates
Monday, October 10:
All NYPL branches closed for Columbus Day
Wednesday, October 12:
NYC Public Schools closed
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