Week katër (4)
Personal Information
TEACHING RESOURCES
Haunting Ideas: Halloween-Themed Teaching and Learning With The New York Times
Blank Board Game
Week 4 (10/22-10/28): PERSONAL INFORMATION/ AT SCHOOL (UNIT 2)(LIBRARY TOUR)
ESOL NRS 1/2
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ESOL NRS 3/4
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ESOL NRS 5/6
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possessive adjectives
prepositions of location
subject pronouns
simple present of to be
contractions | adjectives
present continuous vs simple present
and, too, and, either, but
want vs need
the future with will, be going to and present continuous | verbs + gerunds
must
present perfect using how long, for, since and ever
so/that
infinitives + passive voice
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Week 5 (10/29-11/4): CIVICS
Week 6 (11/5-11/10): CIVICS
Week 7 (11/13-11/18): CIVICS
Week 8 (11/19-11/20): CIVICS
Week 9 (11/26-12/2): FRIENDS & FAMILY (UNIT3) POST-TESTING
Week 10 (12/3-12/9) FRIENDS & FAMILY POST-TESTING
Week 11(12/10-12/17) FRIENDS & FAMILY POST-TESTING / IDENTIFY CONTINUING STUDENTS
TEACHER READING
Quarterly, online newsletter focused on themes of interest to ESOL professionals who are members of NYS TESOL
Fostering Collaboration with Digital Flipbooks
By Angela M. Thompson
Collaboration, critical thinking, and digital literacy are only a few of the many skills that teachers
need to foster in their students. This is not a small task and finding an efficient and effective tool
that helps keep things interesting for teachers and students is incredibly useful.
Read the entire article here:Fostering Collaboration with Digital Flipbooks By Angela M. Thompson
ELT Planning: Stories WIthout End Book Review
Stories Without End is a collection of 24 open-ended stories for use in the classroom. The texts, usually no more than three A4 pages in length, come with reading and discussion activities and possible project work for extension.
CLASSROOM SHOWCASE
From Angela Thompson in Harlem:
Happy Friday to you! Hope you are doing ok today. Here are three photos from this week. The first one is from my ESOL 5/6 class (orange sarong photo). The students were learning about multiple intelligences and partners had to create a dialogue (one left brained, one right brained) to talk about a topic. Audience had to guess personality type based on all we learned about it.
Second photo is from my WIOA class. Students were mapping out one short term career SMART goal.
Third photo is also WIOA class. Using the CUNY Career toolkit, students identified their values and interests regarding their career choices to consider potential careers based on their personal interests.
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
CALENDAR
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October 31: Halloween
November 2: Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie about Queen & Freddie Mercury released
November 6: Election day. NYC Public schools closed
November 4: Turn your clocks back!
November 6: Election Day
November 12: NYPL closed for Veterans Day
November 21-25: no classes for Thanksgiving holiday
December 17: Fall classes end
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
They work with the literacy assistance center.
I went to one of their workshops, it was really interesting.
--Elke
Teaching the Reconstruction Era
Description: Facing History has produced a series of videos and accompanying lessons that will introduce a rigorous study of the Reconstruction era into American history classrooms. Their video series includes interviews with scholars of the Reconstruction era who provide insight into this complex history and address questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship that are at the heart of the Reconstruction.
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable?
The study of the Reconstruction Era in American history is essential to the understanding of citizenship and democracy in the United States today. In this workshop, participants will explore this significant period in U.S. history, when Americans were faced with the challenge of restoring a nation amid the social and political upheaval of the civil war.
In this session, participants will:
- Discover new interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical and literacy skills.
- Explore themes such as historical memory, justice and civic participation in a democracy, and learn writing strategies to help support students through the essay-writing assignment introduced in the unit.
Presenter: Juan Castellanos
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
Teaching Media Literacy in a Digital Age: Facing Ferguson
Description: On the afternoon of August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot to death in a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Within a week, the shooting and the protests that followed—driven to a large degree by social media—became a flashpoint for a discussion about race, policing, and justice in the United States.
Using the curricular unit, Facing Ferguson, co-created by Facing History and Ourselves and the News Literacy Project, this workshop will model how to create a safe and reflective space for dealing with difficult topics; examine how confirmation and other implicit biases can shape our understanding of the world; share how to use news literacy skills and concepts as a set of critical thinking tools to help students find reliable information to make decisions, take action, and responsibly share news and information through social media; and explore what it means to become effective and informed civic participants in today’s complex information landscape.
In this session, participants will:
- Discover new interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical and literacy skills.
- Explore themes such as historical memory, justice, and civic participation in a democracy.
Teaching about Religion and Democracy
Description: Misconceptions and a lack of understanding dominate perceptions of Islam in many societies. In this workshop, participants will examine the impact of stereotypes, bias, discrimination, and hate crimes toward people perceived to be Muslim in both the United States and Europe. A recent reported uptick in hate crimes -especially those targeting Muslims-- adds urgency to this conversation for both educators and students.
In this session, participants will discover new interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical thinking and literacy skills. We will explore topics such as stereotypes, bias, discrimination, and hate crimes, as well as tools and resources that help challenge anti-Muslim stereotypes and discrimination. We will examine the universal forces that propel religious intolerance alongside the specific factors that fuel Islamophobia. We will highlight the voices of young people as they respond to ideas and behaviors often rooted in xenophobia.
GOOGLE RESOURCES & TECH TIPS
If you use Google Documents and want a little more room to view your pages, you can make that space appear with just one click. In the upper, right corner of your screen you will now see an option for "compact mode" in each of your Google Documents. Click the compact mode arrows to collapse the formatting menu and receive about an inch of more space to work in your documents.
Read the entire blog post here: Free Tech for Teachers: Google Docs
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
