Week Six
Around Town & Communities
TEACHING RESOURCES
Have you ever held a paying job, an internship or a volunteer position?
How did you learn about the position? How did you get the job?
What is your experience as a job seeker, and what stories have you heard from family members or friends about how they’ve found out about job openings and been hired?
Read the entire text on the NY Times Learning Network website:
EXIT TICKET
Have you used an exit ticket with your students lately? Here's one in Google Forms you could use: General Exit Ticket.
AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE: I always share this map this time of year: Town Map
Some resources from Oxford University Press: Teaching Adults
Students can talk away when you create your own board game. All you need is some dice (which you can probably borrow from the branch- maybe they have a Yahtzee game in the teen room). Tailor it to your own needs: Blank boardgame
PS- See more about playing games in the classroom below.
CALENDAR
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| Save the date: our next ALC Instructional Staff meeting will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018 Details to follow! |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
English Language Teaching Global Blog
Using games for win-win learning
One theory for the motivational power of games (both physical and online) is that players reach a mental state where they are completely focused on the task. This is sometimes referred to as ‘flow’ (1); in other words, the difficulty of the game is not too hard or too easy, equally matched to the player’s skill level.
It is at this level that games have the most potential as valuable classroom tools.
Read the entire blog post here: OUP Blog: Using Games for Win-Win Learning
CLASSROOM SHOWCASE
This week's pictures come from Diana Vayserfirova, and her level 5/6 class at Kingsbridge.
Please send me pictures, and be sure to include the branch name and level. I need them by the end of the business day on Wednesday. If I already have enough submissions for the week- that just means your pictures will be published the next week. Personally, I think the pictures that you share are the best part of the blog.
Thank you! elizabethschade@nypl.org
DID YOU KNOW?
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| Did you know that you can keep up with NYPL news on LAIR? |
Don’t forget that staff receive a special 30% discount in the store or online
with the code LASTFEB18 today.
PS- I love my earrings and other things I got the day of the staff meeting.
PS- I love my earrings and other things I got the day of the staff meeting.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
NYC ABE CONSORTIUM 2018 CONFERENCE
Celebrating Our 39th NYC ABE Conference Year
This year's theme is:
Empower Adult Educators, Empower Adult Learners
Save the date: April 21, 2018, High School of Fashion Industries
END QUOTE
“Good teaching is more a giving of right
questions than a giving of right answers.”
(Josef Albers)
Thank you for all that you do! Have a great week!
TEACHER HUB is a weekly blog of resources and information for instructors and staff of the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Adult Literacy (ABE) programs of the New York Public Library in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island
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