June 14, 2019

Week Nine

Daily Living/Communities

TEACHING RESOURCES

Access all Ventures downloadables here in Google Drive

From the Edutopia blog:

A Powerful Way to End the School Year

Year mapping allows students to see what they’ve learned in your class...

A Powerful Way to End the School Year

TEACHER SHARE
I asked our instructor Christopher Nazzaro to share with us his website he uses for his NRS Level 1 class

Each class comes with its own website when I am the instructor. I make these in Google sites usually, and they are quite easy to copy or emulate using your NYPL/Google account! The sites include all information about the class outside of the textbook: notes, pictures of the board, videos, links, homework assignments, a Google calendar outlining each lesson, and more. Never will one encounter the piles of garbage most teachers refer to as "handouts" in my class. I pride myself on never having used the copying facilities at my library hub. Class materials are all on the web, accessible on smartphone, tablet, wearable, and computer alike. 

My current class at The Saint George Library Center is a level one class, total beginners, with a fair proportion of elderly students. Even in this tech-inexperienced class of beginners, more than half of the class is able to post photos and homework to the site. The rest still write their homework down in notebooks, but every single student has a smart phone and instant access to the site in class and out. From a planing perspective, the sites are a major time saver, and students appreciate constant access to materials and supplemental practice.

Link to my NYPL site:  tinyurl.com/nyplsgchris

Link to my PD site on using a website for every class: tinyurl.com/tech10gs

My NYPL email, in the event that you would like a copy, or to ask questions:

christophernazzaro@nypl.org

And my professional instagram link (please follow): instagram.com/christopher_not_teacher/

-Christopher Nazzaro

TEACHER READING

9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk

A state Teacher of the Year shares her techniques for increasing the number of students who talk and share their ideas in class.

Read the blog post here: 9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Thanks to Robin Poley and Tom Wool for sharing pictures from their classrooms in St. Agnes!

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

June 26: NYC Public Schools last day
June 30: Last day NYPL Spring 2019 Session

July 29-August 25: NYPL Summer 2019 Session
September 30-December 16: NYPL Fall 2019 Session

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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RAEN Professional Development Opportunities

From the Minnesota Literacy Council website:

Teacher Training Toolkit

Teachers love to learn! Check out the teacher training toolkit modules below to develop your teaching skills in a variety of different areas. Each module contains a short reading, a video, video reflection questions, and a follow-up classroom task with reflection questions. Work through the modules independently, or join together with other teachers to discuss, reflect, and develop as a team. 

The topics covered in the toolkit will help you to develop your skills as an adult ESL teacher, whether you are a classroom assistant, teach small groups, one-to-one, or lead large classes.

If you have any technical issues with downloading the toolkit reading texts, or questions about how to use them in your program, please contact Andrea Echelberger at aechelberger@mnliteracy.org.

http://mnliteracy.org/TrainingToolkit

TECH TIPS

How to Use the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension

The Google Dictionary Chrome extension is a handy little tool that lets you highlight a word on any webpage to quickly find a definition and hear a pronunciation of that word. Google Dictionary isn't the only Chrome extension that has this capability, but it is the only one that Google itself offers. In the following video I demonstrate how easy it is to install and use the Google Dictionary Chrome.

Read the entire blog post here: 

How to Use the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension

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