9/28/18 Week 1 Learning to Learn, ALC Staff Meeting

Week One

Welcome/Learning to Learn

TEACHING RESOURCES

Google Drive Week 1/Learning to Learn Resources

How to Create A Jeopardy Style Game

TEACHER SHARE
Many thanks to Manal Grant for sharing this article:
5 Tricks for Learning a New Language as an Adult

TEACHER READING

Taking attendance is usually a five-minute task at the start of a class period, but in my classroom, it can sometimes take much longer. On rare occasions, taking attendance can take up an entire class period.

This happened recently when, for 75 minutes, students listened respectfully to each other. No one snuck a peek at phone messages. No one left the room for a washroom break. Not a single student looked bored. There was no technology involved.

All I did was take attendance.

Read the entire blog post here: Building Community With Attendance Questions

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Photos from the Teacher Meeting today will be shared next week.

Please send me pictures throughout the term, 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

CALENDAR

October 1: Fall classes begin
October 8: NYPL closed for Columbus Day
November 6: Election day. NYC Public schools closed
November 12: NYPL closed for Veterans Day
November 21-25: no classes for Thanksgiving holiday
December 17: Fall classes end

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BEST PLUS REFRESHER
St. George Library
Friday, October 12, 10:00 am
Contact your HUB Manager, and also elizabethschade@nypl.org

Meeting Challenges, Exploring Solutions in the Adult ESOL Classroom - 2018

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018 AT 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM 

John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY 10003

Join us for this one-day conference that provides English Language Teaching professionals with a space to learn from one another, share ideas, and network.

The day features a plenary by a leading educator in the field, workshops exploring techniques and ideas to support classroom practice, and presentations focusing on current challenges facing ESOL teachers.

Plenary speaker: Lourdes Ortega - Multilingual Understandings of English Competence and Success

People learn English all over the world, and second-language English students are by definition people on their way to becoming bilinguals or multilinguals. Yet all too often their English is construed as deficient and their multilingual prowess is erased. In this talk, I reflect on what it means to be a successful, communicatively competent speaker of  English, in light of the multilingualism of second-language English speakers and the special status of English, with its contested global, international, and lingua franca affordances. I will argue that we cannot understand English competence or learning success, in academic or other contexts, unless we understand English-in-multilingualism and open up our language pedagogies to the psycholinguistic and social realities of multilinguals. We will need to help our students cultivate an awareness of both world Englishes and unequal Englishes (Tupas, 2015). We will also want to include strategies that help them recognize, disrupt, and productively exploit to their advantage the experiences of being positioned by others as a novice, a foreigner, an outside member, or a nonnative speaker. In sum, our pedagogies must show that being competent in English is about being able to negotiate desirable identities with the aid of rich multilingual repertoires, where language always offers identity choices and communication always harbors power struggles.

The New School has a long tradition of excellence in the training of teachers of English to speakers of other languages. We welcome participation by professionals who seek to address critical issues in the field and hone their own craft.

Read more about the event here:
Meeting Challenges, Exploring Solutions

TECH TIPS

In the last few days before school starts take some time to make sure that your tech is in order just like the rest of your classroom. 
Read the blog post here: 5 Back-to-School Tech Tips for Teachers

Influenza (flu) is a dangerous respiratory infection that spreads easily to others. The New York Public Library is offering its employees the opportunity to receive an influenza vaccination, at no cost to them.

Get your annual flu shot at NYPL at the following locations:

• 10/1 - BookOps LIC from 10 AM to 1 PM
• 10/16 - Richmondtown Library from 10 AM to 1 PM
• 10/17 - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building from 11 AM to 2 PM
• 10/18 - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building from 11 AM to 2 PM

To register, follow the steps below:

Click here to register and reserve a time

Under “Schedule your Appointment” enter username: nypl, password: welcome
Click the “Get Started” link to choose your location and time

Please note the following:

• You must register online through the Affiliated Physician Portal and bring your confirmation to the clinic.
• You must complete an NYPL consent form as well as the Affiliated Physician’s Consent and Release forms that will be provided on the Affiliated Physician portal or at all clinics.
• Be sure to have your health insurance information available to list on the Affiliated Physician’s Consent and Release form.
• The flu shot vendor does not vaccinate anyone allergic to chicken or egg products, or anyone under the age of 18.
• The flu shot is for NYPL staff members only.
• Walk-­ins are welcome but are not guaranteed a shot for those who did not register on­line.
• Questions about the registration site can be directed to Affiliated Physicians at (866) 481-­4391.

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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