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TEACHING RESOURCES

Dear teacher colleagues,

With library tours coming up, I've created a questionnaire for my students to fill out during/after the tour. It keeps them more engaged, especially students who have taken a tour before. I've shared it HERE on Google drive.

Feel free to copy and edit for your needs.

I've also created a Quizlet set "At the library" for home practice of library related vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/_5eqbcr

Both are work in progress :)

If you have questions, suggestions or need help with Quizlet, please contact me: elkestappert@nypl.org

TEACHER READING

Of all the myriad things that we teachers do, one is that we are constantly creating tasks – and perhaps now more than ever. Personalisation and relevance are seen as essential to meeting the expectations of our 21st-century, global-citizen learners, and so designing high-quality, motivating tasks is a key skill for every teacher’s toolkit. You may have come across tasks in the sense of task-based learning, but here we are talking about tasks in the more fundamental sense; essentially a piece of work to be done.

So, how do we go about designing and creating a task? What do we need to think about and why?

Read the blog post here: The art of task construction

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Pictures from the St. George ALC

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

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

Join our Workshop!

Sponsored by NYC Region in collaboration with

The Center for Immigrant Education and Training (CIET) at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Friday, Nov 9, 2-4 PM

Online registration opening soon!

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY - Location details in registration confirmation email

“Night at the Museum”

New York City hosts a wide array of museums which can serve as 
unique learning spaces for our students. In this workshop, 
representatives from three NYC museums will speak about 
programming suited for ESOL students and the techniques used inside the exhibits to enhance students’ comprehension and engagement.

Advance Registration Required Due to Space Limitations

NYS TESOL Members: $10

Non-Members: $15

For more information: nyc@nystesol.org

TECH TIPS

What To Do When Your Classroom Technology Fails

In my previous post I highlighted five things that you can do to make sure that your classroom technology is ready for the new school year. But even if you do all of those things, there will still be times when things don't go as expected. Here are a few things that you can do when classroom technology isn't working as expected. Read the blog post here:

What to Do When Your Classroom Technology Fails

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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