Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to wish you

Here are some great photos to share with you:

From Jean Choi's class:

These are from Joe Uggucioni's WIOA class at Washington Heights. He used a "speed dating" structure to have students practice interviewing skills.

Diana Vayserfirova's "Early America” Show at Kingsbridge Library, Level 5-6

and at Riverdale, also level 5-6:

Students from Porsche Linwood's New Dorp Leve One class writing facts about Western history via word splash

Supporting the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the First Amendment in St Agnes citizenship classes! From left to right: freedom to petition the government, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion!

We are THANKFUL for you, our NYPL teachers.

Thank you for everything you do for our students!

Have a wonderful holiday!

Friday, November 22, 2019

November 22, 2019 Family/Friends- no blog 11/29

Week Nine

Friends & Family

FRIDAY FUNNY

TEACHING RESOURCES

Rights Group: Governments Increasing Social Media Use to Influence Elections

If you've moved on to Family and Friends, don't forget our Google Drive with resources:
NYPL Teaching Resources: Family and Friends

TEACHER READING

From Lizzie Pinard's blog Reflections of an English Language Teacher
IATEFL Webinar: What makes a good language teacher? (Carol Griffiths)

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Here are some pictures of Sandra Ham's Hudson Park 5/6 class. They did mini- presentations about U.S. political parties for the civics unit.

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

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT at NYS TESOL

Look who I found!

Elke's presentation was entitled:

Thank You for the Music: Learning Vocabulary in Context

Songs and music videos are great teaching tools. This hands-on workshop presents five dynamic activities around songs that focus on lexical chunking and incorporate four skills...

Emily Skalet's presentation was entitled:

Planning Project-Based Learning with ESOL/Literacy Students

This workshop will explore methods to create level-appropriate and authentic class projects with beginner speaks of English with limited literacy. Participants will explore community-based texts that support curriculum and assessment...

My presentation was entitled:

Providing Professional Development Differently: Via BLOG
I basically shared our blog with others! (I look like I'm enjoying myself, don't I?)

and look who else I found: our former student mentor Raju Srinivasan!
His presentation was entitled:

Preparing ELLs for the Unknown: The Unfamiliar Genre Research Project

Using a genre-based approaxh, this interactive workshop shows instructors how to implement a research project that will empower ELLs to become autonomous learners...

If you are a NYS TESOL member, you have access to ALL of the presentation materials that were uploaded here: Conference Materials

CALENDAR

There are NO CLASSES:

Wednesday, November 27
Thursday, November 28
Friday, November 29
Saturday, November 30
Sunday, December 1

Classes resume Monday, December 2.

Please note:

For hourly teachers, these are not paid days off since
there are no regularly scheduled classes those days.

Part-time staff do not have to enter anything in eTime for the days listed above.

JUST FOR FUN

I can't resist posting these: (parts 1 and 2)

Thank you for all that you do! Have a great week!

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Friday, November 15, 2019

November 15, 2019 Civics

Week Eight

Civics

FRIDAY FUNNY

TEACHING RESOURCES

teachervision.com: Thanksgiving Activities and Worksheets

teachervision.com: How to Teach Gratitude in Your Classroom

freetech4teachers.com: Mapping Thanksgiving

‘Teachable Moment’: Impeachment

oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com: The Oxford 3000 and the Oxford 5000

NYPL SHARE

Have you ever wondered what our department looks like on paper?

Here is a chart of our department and how our staff is organized.

Our department has a new director. If you read the Org Chart above, Ken English and Maggie Jacobs report to Brian Bannon, who is new to the NYPL.
You can read about him in this article here:
Brian Bannon: From Chicago to New York

TEACHER READING

Paul Nation is famous in our profession as a specialist in the teaching of vocabulary. You may recognize this book:

Read an excerpt here from Amazon

You can read an article written by him here:

www.asian-efl-journal.com: Teaching Vocabulary

and read a teacher's view about it here: Vocabulary testing – the pros and cons

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

This week we have pictures from Jean Choi's TABE M/D class at Seward Park. They are learning about Circular reporting and Fake news.

Thank you! elizabethschade@nypl.org

CALENDAR

There are NO CLASSES:

Wednesday, November 27
Thursday, November 28
Friday, November 29
Saturday, November 30
Sunday, December 1

Classes resume Monday, December 2.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The NYS TESOL Conference has started! It continues today and tomorrow. Did you know you can get there by Metro North?

Here's the site for the conference:
NYS Annual TESOL Conference

TECHNOLOGY

Have you answered our Technology Needs Assessment questions? We want to learn how we can help you with technology. If you haven't already filled it out, it's right here:

Technology Needs Assessment

These documents, created by HUB Manager Stephanie Burnes, can help you:

How to change or update passwords

Projector Display Solutions