September 27, 2019- Back to School

Week One

Welcome/Learning to Learn

FRIDAY FUNNY

TEACHING RESOURCES

Google Drive: Week 1- Learning to Learn
Google Drive: Ventures

Ventures Arcade: http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/venturesadulted/venturesarcade/index.html

Ventures Teacher Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/ventures/resources

Ventures Streaming Audio http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/venturesadulted/venturesarcade/studentaudio/

Ice breaker grid challenge

Back To School Activities For Elementary Students (don't let the title turn you off)

Getting to Know You Board Game

Busyteacher.org: About Me Worksheet


VOA Video: Train Your Brain to Think in English

englishteaching101.com: KAHOOT CREATE – HOW TO USE AS A TEACHER

englishteaching101.com: ABSOLUTELY FREE CLASSROOM TOOLS FOR TEACHERS

busyteacher.org: Acrostic Poem

busyteacher.org: Top 10 Fun Alphabet Games

VOA News: Study Finds Educators, Students Agree: Technology Has Value

ESOL NRS 1/2	ESOL NRS 3/4	ESOL NRS 5/6
Present Tense (Simple/Continuous) Question formation There is/there are	Review Present Tense Question formation Gerunds	Review Present / Past Tense Question formation Gerunds

Fall Cycle September-December

week 1 Welcome/learning to learn pages 2-5

weeks 2-4 personal information unit 2

weeks 5-7 civics (US History/Voting)

weeks 8-10 family/friends unit 3

Flu season is just around the corner. Don’t let the virus catch you this year! 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report the best way to protect yourself from the flu, a dangerous and highly contagious respiratory infection, is to get vaccinated every year. The New York Public Library is pleased to offer on-site flu vaccinations for employees at no cost.

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

• 10/2 - Richmondtown Library from 10 AM to 1 PM
• 10/7 - 39th Street from 11 AM to 1 PM
• 10/10 - BookOps LIC from 10 AM to 1 PM
• 10/16 - Bronx Library Center from 10 AM to 12 PM 
• 10/23 - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building from 11 AM to 2 PM

Room details will be provided in the appointment confirmation.

For additional information and registration details, visit Lair.

TEACHER SHARE
Many thanks to Stephanie Burnes for this handy tool to remember your NYPL logins and passwords:

NYPL Logins for Hourly Teachers

TEACHER READING

10 Invaluable Back To School Ideas For ELT Teachers

Tips For Preventing Students From Derailing Your Lesson

Unpacking curriculum: adopt, adapt, apply

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

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

October 4 - Teacher Instructional Meeting
October 18 - Best Plus Refresher training at St. George

Fall 2019 term: September 30 - December 16

No classes on the following dates:

October 14: Columbus Day

November 11: Veterans Day

November 27 - December 1: Thanksgiving

2020 Dates

Winter: January 27 - April 5

Spring: April 27 - June 30

Summer: July 27 - August 23

Fall: September 28 - December 16

E-TIME:

Dear Colleagues,

Recently ADP performed an upgrade of eTime. This latest version addresses important security concerns associated with the Adobe Flash player.

Some members of staff have reported encountering the following error when logging into eTime:

"YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO ACCESS THE REQUESTED RESOURCE"

If you should encounter this error, please clear your browser’s cache and restart your machine.  Click here to learn how to clear the browser’s cache.

If the problem persists and you require further assistance, please contact the Call Center at x40500 (212) 621-0500 or submit a ticket through ServiceNow by searching for the term "eTime" and selecting "Report Software Incident".

Thank You,

NYPL Payroll Office

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Adult Ed Meet & Greet

 An event sponsored by
NYS TESOL Adult Education SIG

Sat, Sept 28th, 2019 

4:30pm to 6:30pm 

Chelsea, NYC – near The New School

• Are you an enthusiastic Adult Education professional?
• Do you enjoy networking, collaborating, and brainstorming?
• Do you want a space to relax and learn with fellow educators?

Come join us for an informal meet & greet event. Learn about the Adult Education SIG, socialize with fellow educators, and share your ideas on how we can support each other! Our Meet & Greet will be a “think, sip, and relax” gathering in a restaurant bar near The New School. Directions will be provided after you RSVP.

Are you a NYS TESOL Member? Join now, or renew at http://www.nystesol.org/join.html 

Please RSVP by Tues, Sept 24th at 6pm.

Admission: free, but please order a beverage or appetizer

Please RSVP at esladult@nystesol.org

TECH TIPS

Every year for the last five years I've published a free ebook that is simply titled The Practical Ed Tech Handbook. This week I finished creating the updated version for the 2019-20 school year.

The Practical Ed Tech Handbook contains nine sections covering a wide variety of educational technology tools. Throughout the handbook you'll find ideas on how to use the tools in your classroom as well as tutorials the nuts and bolts of using them. The nine sections of the Practical Ed Tech Handbook are:

1. Communication with students and parents.
2. Backchannels & informal assessment
3. Learning to Program
4. Augmented and Virtual Reality
5. Digital portfolios
6. Audio recording and publishing
7. Video creation and flipped lessons
8. Digital citizenship
9. Web search strategies

You can get your free copy of the 2019-20 Practical Ed Tech Handbook right here as a PDF or here as a Google Doc.

As we head into the last week of September I hope that your school year is going well. If you have any ed tech related questions that pop-up during the year, please feel free to hit reply on this or any other newsletter that I send. I often answer those questions in email as well as in the Practical Ed Tech Podcast.

Have a great week!

~Richard

Dear Colleagues, 

Enjoy your 30% discount today both in the shop and online with the code LASTSEPT19. 

Don't forget staff get free shipping!

Have a great weekend!

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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