December 13 end of term

End of Term!

Thank you everyone for another great term!
Enjoy your time off, and
SEE YOU IN 2020!

FRIDAY FUNNY

TEACHING RESOURCES

Some ideas for next term:

Teacher Vision: New Year's Teacher Resources

busyteacher.org: How to Teach a Christmas Lesson Adult Learners Will Never Forget

freetech4teachers.com: Lesson Plan, Meal Plan, and Fitness Plan Templates

TEACHER READING

Using Technology to Promote Reading

OUP Teaching Adults Newsletter

Lesson Planning

Manage your classroom more effectively making every minute count. In this "Effective Strategies with a Purpose" workshop, Rob Jenkins will help participants shift their perspective from a teaching focus to a learning focus by introducing strategies that work. Leave with 100 ideas for all skill areas adaptable for any level of ESL and have fun in the process. Presenter: Rob Jenkins Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education Jenkins_rob@sac.edu

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

Thanks for sending great pictures to finish up the term!

From Lianne Smith:

• Library:  Chatham
• Level:  2/3
• Lesson:   Vocabulary Review for Fall Cycle

In our last week of class, students were tasked with looking through all of the materials from the fall cycle and choosing between 1-3 (or more!) words to review.

Students go 'round robin style and report on their words.  (Speaker can ask any listener to re-tell in order to "test" their comprehension.  "What's my word?"  etc.)

• A word from this class that I want to remember is _______.  
• It means ________. 
• We studied it in the ________(unit or lesson). 
• My own example is ________.

From Diana Vayserfirova at Kingsbridge Library L5-6

Carol Halebian's Level 5-6 class at SASB:

Some great snaps from Wakefield:

NRS 1-2 Ms. Charmain Haynes and NRS 5-6 Ms. Dolores Roberts

Porsche Linwood's Level 1 class at New Dorp practicing their speaking and listening skills by playing “Match a Pair of Birds”, “Sight Word Swat” and “Money Bingo”

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

2020 Dates

Winter: January 27 - April 5

Spring: April 27 - June 30

Summer: July 27 - August 23

Fall: September 28 - December 16

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NYS TESOL Membership Drive - Special Discount of $20.20 through January 20, 2020! If you are not a NYS TESOL member, now is the time to join! We are offering membership at all levels for $20.20 in honor of our 50th anniversary in 2020!  Please spread the word and consider what a great gift it can be to colleagues, undergrad and grad students in TESOL, faculty, administrators, coaches, policy-makers, advocates and content-area colleagues who care about multilingual learners in New York State! To join, complete the membership form (as if you are paying regular rate)  and at the point of payment, please enter code:  JOIN2020 NYS TESOL is a community of practice for TESOL professionals throughout New York state. Our goals are to advance the profession of teaching English as an additional language by facilitating professional development for all of our members and to advocate for equitable policies and practices for multilingual learners and communities. Thank you for supporting and engaging with our mission! Save November 12-14 2020 for our Golden Anniversary Conference in White Plains!

The NYC Consortium for Adult Basic Education/ESOL Conference Committee wishes all of you a very wonderful holiday season!

We also wish to send you a gentle reminder that proposals for our 2020 conference are due on January 25, 2020.  We appreciate the NYCCAL's continued support for our conferences.  This year's theme is 2020 Vision: Identifying and Addressing Needs in Adult Education.

Please send in the attached separate conference proposal form to nycabeconf@gmail.com.

Feel free to look at our website for more information. 

Thank you for your continued support,

The 2020 Conference Committee

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

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