Adult Learning Centers, NYPL
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Talk to Me Tuesdays: 4/24/18
Talk to Me Tuesdays:
Let's have a conversation by answering the question below.
Leave a comment and read what your colleagues have to say!
Giveaway:
A winner will be chosen randomly from the comments.
What new ideas will I try in my classroom to keep
myself energized about teaching?
Friday, April 20, 2018
April 20, 2018
Welcome/Learning to Learn
TEACHING RESOURCES
Here are some interesting resources I've come across. Wishing you all a great first week of class!
The Best Resources For Planning The First Days Of School
Learning Names (by Marc Helgesen)
Breaking News English
Macmillan Dictionary Word of the Day blog
OUP Blog: Learning to Learn from the Dictionary
NYPL Spring 2018 Curriculum
ALC Week 1 Wiki
Give your students jobs in the classroom: I Heart Input Blog: Giving Students Jobs
TEACHER SHARE
Sharing Your Best Work With Other Teachers
Eight ways you can share lessons or other great ideas with fellow teachers everywhere. Read the Edutopia blog post here: Sharing Best Work With Other Teachers
GOOGLE RESOURCES
Now the person who invited you knows and can see your response. Hope this is helpful!
I've had some questions from a few of you recently about Google Calendar Invitations. The one you'll be most familiar with right now is the invite for the ALC Instructional Staff Meeting on 4/27. It's important that you respond YES or NO when you receive this kind of invitation and others.
So let me give you some visuals:
This is what it will look like in your email. It will have "Invitation" in the subject line. You can go back and search for old invitations by entering "invitation" in the search bar at the top.
When you open a Google Calendar Invite, it will look like this:
(Ardit invited me to work with him on Saturday. Wasn't that nice of him?) :-)
So you need to respond to the invitation YES or NO. (Maybe isn't really very helpful, but you can use that too.) See YES is circled in yellow in the photo below.
So, when you reply, it will look like this- see how it turned green?
Now the person who invited you knows and can see your response. Hope this is helpful!
IMPORTANT DATES
TELL ME!
As the term begins, I'm thinking about goals and what I'd like to accomplish this spring. Could you please take a minute to give me some of your thoughts? This will help me so I know what you're interested in, and what I can include in the blog. It's only five questions!
Fill out the Google Form here: Goals for Spring 2018 |
| April 23 - Spring term begins April 27 - Teacher Meeting- Harlem Library 9 W 124th St, New York, NY 10027 May 15 - Ramadan begins May 26, 27, 28 - Memorial Day weekend - no classes June 15 - Ramadan ends/Eid June 30 - Spring term ends July 30 - Summer term begins August 25 - Summer tern ends October 1 - Fall term begins |
TELL ME!
As the term begins, I'm thinking about goals and what I'd like to accomplish this spring. Could you please take a minute to give me some of your thoughts? This will help me so I know what you're interested in, and what I can include in the blog. It's only five questions!
FROM THE NYPL PRESIDENT
Dear Colleagues,
On National Library Workers Day, I want to thank you for all that you do both for the Library and the communities you serve. No matter your role, the work you do every day honors our priority to have More People Reading More and makes NYPL a vital public resource for so many New Yorkers.
This year, you will each receive a small gift, a tote bag that proudly shares a message we believe in so deeply: “Libraries Are for Everyone.” In this time of public funding challenges and tight budgets, you are the ones who protect the spirit of NYPL and make our libraries safe and welcoming places for all. You keep people coming back to attend our programs and to read more every year. Thank you to all of our staff and our colleagues in Local 1930, Local 374, and DC 37 for your dedication to The New York Public Library.
Today we celebrate National Library Workers Day, and I hope you will continue this celebration throughout this advocacy season by recognizing each other on our staff recognition site. Thank you for all of the work you do every day to show how important libraries are to our city and around the world.
Yours,
Tony
Anthony W. Marx | The New York Public Library
President
INTERESTING READS
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
English Language Teaching Global Blog
Minds matter: Psychology of language learning
‘It’s all in the mind!’ – How true when it comes to learning a foreign language. Every teacher knows that you can have the best resources in the world, but if the learner is not in the right frame of mind to engage with the new language and use the opportunities before them, then they are unlikely to do so. There are all kinds of reasons why a learner may put obstacles in their own way or simply avoid engaging, but many of these reasons often lie in how learners view themselves, their competences, and their relationship to the language, classroom, peers, and the teacher
Read the entire blog post here: Minds Matter
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Join our Workshop!
Sponsored by NYS TESOL NYC Region in collaboration with
Baruch College’s Tools for Clear Speech
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| Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 6-8 PM https://nystesol.wildapricot
Location details in registration confirmation email
Baruch College, CUNY55 Lexington Avenue, room 14-270
Advance Registration Required Due to Space Limitations
NYS TESOL Members: $10
Non-Members: $15
For more information: nyc@nystesol.org
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“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery” (Mark van Doren)
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
Thursday, April 5, 2018
TESOL 2018
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| Greetings from TESOL 2018! I thought I would keep track of my adventures and experiences while at the 2018 TESOL Conference in Chicago. Hope you enjoy it! Saturday, March 24 I arrived in Chicago. It's my first time in the Windy City. Two observations: One: It really is windy! Two: WOW IT'S COLD HERE! 12,824 steps on my Fitbit  Sunday, March 25 Nerd Alert! While exploring the city, I stumbled on the Chicago Public Library. This branch is the equivalent of our SASB/42nd Street. It was beautiful. 13,399 steps on my Fitbit     Monday, March 26  The conference doesn't officially begin until Wednesday. I am attending some "Pre Convention Institutes." Today I am attending a workshop called "Effective Lesson Observation: More Than Meets the Eye." I arrived at the venue early. Things aren't clearly marked and the venue is HUGE. There will be lots of walking. My goal is to have some authentic Chicago pizza for lunch. 13,335 steps on my Fitbit. Tuesday, March 27  Today I attended another workshop on observation. I learned a lot about how to give feedback in a constructive way to teachers. 
Yikes! I found delicious macarons in my hotel!
 This is a recent release by TESOL.     13,652 steps on my FitBit Wednesday, March 28 Wednesday was the real "first day" of the conference- workshops start, the exhibit/vendor hall is open, and the madness begins!      On Wednesday I went to the workshop given by Elke, Stephanie and two colleauges. They had a nice full room. Well done, ladies!  Cambridge will publish a new 3rd edition of Ventures soon.     On Wednesday I met with my colleauges from the Adult Education Interest Section. (I was the co-chair of the IS this year.) It was great meeting people I've been in communication with all year- in person. We had a lot of work to do.  We also had a meeting with AEIS membership. And- nerd alert! We had a visitor at our meeting- Bill Bliss (you probably know him as the author of the Side by Side series.)   Thursday, March 29  I attended a very interesting workshop about professional development. Read the questions on this slide- they are very thought provoking! I also attended a session on how to get published- something that is a personal goal of mine.  It was a busy day and I didn't take many pictures. I did walk around the exhibit/vendor hall and grab as many freebies as I could. Here are some that might be interesting to you:     13,125 steps on my FitBit Friday, March 30 Friday was the last official day of the conference. But since it was also a religious holiday, things were definitely quieter.  
It wasn't anything special, but technically I was a Presenter at the confence. I lead a networking session for the Adult Education IS. We got together and talked about hot topics in our field.
This was a very interesting workshop that I only caught half of. This is also something interesting that you can do to think about your teaching. Very thought provoking!
This was another presentation in the Electronic Village: Creating E-Textbooks with Sway 
You can create your own course packet or textbook.
I hope you check it out, I really learned a lot and intend to use this. This was one of the most valuable things I learned at TESOL.
Then, suddenly it was Friday afternoon and I had to dash off to the airport and go home.
8,121 on my FitBit.
Goodbye Chicago! Thanks TESOL! It was a great week both personally and professionally.
Thanks for reading!
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