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.

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

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 

This is a 3 minute video on how to connect the projector to a laptop.

TECH TIPS

How to Create a Multimedia Timeline Through Google Sheets

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

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