10/26/18 Civics

Week خمسة

CIVICS

TEACHING RESOURCES

But first, Halloween!

Teachervision: Halloween Printables, Worksheets and Activities

Freetech4teachers.com: How to Find and Modify Halloween Games in Kahoot

NYTimes Learning Network Halloween Resources

Freetech4teachers.com: Halloween Articles for ELA Lessons

Freetech4teachers.com: Case Maker - Civics Lessons Built on Primary Sources - Case Maker uses primary sources from the Library of Congress as the basis of activities in which students have to build a case in response to real civics scenarios


Freetech4teachers.com: ClassTools SMS Generator - Text Messages Between Historical Figures - You could have students use the Classtools SMS Generator to create simple conversations between historical characters as way to get them to think about those peoples' lives and the conversations that they might have had. 

 Freetech4teachers.com: Three Ways to Make Social Media Profiles for Historical and Literary Characters - create fake Facebook and other social media profiles based on historical and literary characters

Don't forget some Ventures resources: 
Civics worksheets you can download and Ventures Arcade

Here is a Google Drive Folder with all of the Ventures Civics Worksheets:
 Google Drive: Ventures Civics Worksheets

Don't forget the USCIS website, and it's Citizenship Resource Center: www.uscis.gov/citizenship

You'll feel like you won this week's lottery when you see this gigantic list of resources: Tech Up Your Citizenship Class

TEACHER READING

From the TESOL Blog:

The school year is well under way, and teachers are beginning to get to know their students and to build relationships with them. The teachers that work with English learners (ELs) should know how crucial their classroom practices are to the success of these students. Here are four essential practices that effective teachers of ELs exhibit in their classrooms: 4 Ways Teachers Can Support English Learners

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

No one sent me any pictures this week!

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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 31: Halloween
November 2: Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie about Queen & Freddie Mercury released
November 6: Election day. NYC Public schools closed
November 4: Turn your clocks back!
November 6: Election Day

November 12: NYPL closed for Veterans Day
November 21-25: no classes for Thanksgiving holiday
December 17: Fall classes end

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Some professional development resources to do on your own time: 

getgreatenglish.com: Podcasts for Professional Development

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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

March 16, 2018 Week Nine, Time/Weather

Week Nine

Time & Weather

TEACHING RESOURCES

Wiki note:
You may have noted when you opened our wikis that there is a notice that wikispaces is shutting down. Unfortunately, it is true. Elke and I are working on finding a new home for all of our resources. Stay tuned for more information!

Learning English Through Lyrics
Read the blog post from TESOL about using audio/music in your classroom.

The NY Times Learning Network has some interesting reads on using audio in the classroom:

NY Times: Active Listening: Using Times Videos, Podcasts and Articles to Practice a Key Skill
Experimenting With Sound and Story: Teaching and Learning With ‘The Daily’ Podcast
TEACHER SHARE
From Joan Benham:

I have a "Teacher Share" item for the blog:

If you teach literacy, or search for interesting readings
for your ESOL classes, newsela is a terrific resource.  

Nonfiction articles are offered on a myriad of topics;
each article is available at 5 different reading levels.

Students at different lexile levels within a class can read

at their own level, and still engage with the same subject matter.
Students could also choose the level they want
to read at, or read the same article at different levels.

Joining is easy, and free. (There is a charge for  the Pro version.)
https://newsela.com/

~Joan 

TEACHER READING

Aiding Reading Comprehension With Post-its

A simple, low-stress strategy that helps students engage with, understand, and remember what they read. Read the entire blog post from Edutopia here: Aiding Reading Comprehension with Post-Its

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

From Manal Grant:
Last week, WIOA 5/6 students at the Aguilar Library created and performed skits about applying soft skills in a variety of challenging situations at work. Each scenario was performed to a soundtrack (instrumental suspense, comedy, rom-com, action, soap/telenovela) curated by a fellow student musician. 

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

IMPORTANT DATES

March 31: Winter 2018 term ends
April 2 - April 21: Intake period
April 23: Spring 2018 term begins
May 26,27,28 - no classes for Memorial Day holiday
June 30: Spring 2018 term ends

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NEW YORK CITY CONSORTIUM FOR ADULT BASIC EDUCATION

Saturday, April 21^st, 2018

Empower Adult Educators; Empower Adult Learners

All Day Conference for Adult BE and ESOL Educators

8:00 am to 4:00 pm

On Saturday, April 21^st, 2018 adult educators from New York City and beyond will meet at The High School of Fashion Industries at 225 West 24th Street in Manhattan for the 39^th annual Adult Basic Education/ESOL Conference. There will be a variety of interactive workshops exploring best practices in ESOL and BE instruction, HSE/TASC, college prep, math, writing, science, ESL literacy, civics, classroom management, integrating technology, fostering critical thinking and other highly relevant topics by innovative and talented presenters from a cross-section of New York City adult education providers including CUNY, NYU, NYPL, QPL, BPL, the CBOs, the Literacy Assistance Center and the New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy. The conference will conclude with a panel presentation and discussion of Embedding Civics and Civic Engagement in Adult Basic Education: An Introduction to We Speak NYC Season Two, the next generation of the former We Are New York.A variety of publishers of books and technology relevant to the field will exhibit. The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) will be offering immigration advocacy consultations and a display of information for attendees to share with adult immigrant students.

This is a unique yearly conference for all the adult education programs throughout the city and beyond. Program directors and teachers as well as volunteers are urged to attend the conference to take advantage of this valuable professional development opportunity and build mutual support to face the current climate together. Adult education students and future adult educators are also welcome to take part in the conference. Together, we’ll explore the path forward to meet the challenges of making adult education succeed!

Join us — to learn, share, to strengthen

adult education and to support our students and ourselves!

To pre-register: Click here to go to https://nycabe2018.eventbrite.com to secure your spot in each workshop of your choice.

Pre-registration by April 19th: $20.  On-Site registration (cash only): $25. ESOL/ABE students: $10.

                                       Registration & Breakfast           8:00       —       9:00

                                      First Workshops                         9:15       —       10:30

                                       Break – Publishers                     10:30     —       11:00

                                       Second Workshops                   11:00     —      12:15

                                       Lunch – Publishers                     12:15     —       1:15

                                      Third Workshops                      1:15       —       2:30

                                    Educators’ Roundtable              2:45       —       4:00

(While light snacks will be provided in the afternoon, please note that lunch is not included.)

The High School of Fashion Industries

Wheelchair and ADA Accessible

225 West 24th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)

#1 train to 23rd St. & 7th Ave

E and C train to 23rd St. & 8th Avenue

See what previous participants had to say about the conference:

“Well done presentation! I really enjoyed the activities presented

and modeled from the presenter. This workshop helped me a lot.”

“Thank you for a wonderful workshop. It was very easy to follow,

and it had a lot of excellent ideas that I will incorporate in my classes.”

To pre-register: Click here or go to nycabe2018eventbrite.com to secure your spot in each workshop of your choice.

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“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results” (John Dewey)

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

March 2, 2018

Week Seven

Around Town & Communities

Ventures Arcade

Ventures Teacher Resources

Ventures Streaming Audio

I love using the episode THE WEDDING during this theme.

Here is a link to the WANY website: The Wedding
A Jazz Chant: The Wedding Jazz Chant
Key Lines from all the episodes: WANY Key Lines
Discussion pictures from all the episodes: Discussion Pictures

TEACHING RESOURCES

I love using Tongue Twisters in class. I couldn't resist sharing these with you when I came across these this week:

Larry Ferlazzo: The Best Ways To Use Tongue Twisters With ELLs

70 Tongue-Twisters From 70 Countries

TEACHER SHARE

HUB Manager Stephanie Burnes will be sharing some COOPERATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES with us each week. 

30-Second Speech

Grouping structure: Individuals → Partners

Main modality or function: Speaking

Suggested WIPEAR segments: Warm-Up/Review, Practice, Evaluation/Student Reflection

The 30-Second Speech is a strategy to give intentional and extended ‘think time’.
It allows students process time so that their thinking is more organized and goes deeper than a surface response.

30-Second Speech works like this:  
Students have just been given new information or content (maybe from reading, a video clip, a lecturette, etc.) and you know they need time to make sense of this new content.
You, as the teacher, pose a question to the class and ask them to “Plan a 30-second speech.”
Students can jot down thoughts or just quietly examine their thinking.
Students are then paired-up (A/B partners; shoulder buddies; whatever grouping makes sense) and each person gives their 30-second speech to their partner.

The opportunity to orally process information and engage in social interaction is aligned with brain research that informs us that much learning occurs during social interaction.

TEACHER READING

On February 16, Working Papers in Applied Linguistics & TESOL  had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Roy Lyster, the invited speaker for the APPLE Lecture Series hosted by the Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

You can see the interview with Dr. Lyster on our YouTube channel. 

CLASSROOM SHOWCASE

This week Lizz Kaune at BLC shared some work from her level 1/2 class:

Just wanted to share something my class worked on the past few weeks. Our librarian put them on display at BLC. Another teacher suggested I share it for the blog.

Health care pioneers for black history month
The grammar focus was on sentences like... I was born on... I was born in... I was (profession in my country)... I graduated from...  Sentences that you must talk about in the past. Example, you can't say "I am born". 

And then the vocabulary was health care professions (nurse, doctor, surgeon, pediatrician, etc).

The biographies on the internet were a little too difficult for them so I made simpler sentences and we just focused on locating the verbs in each sentence. You can see them in green on the poster board. Subject first and then verb.

I cut up the simple sentences and they put them in order and then glued them to the poster board. This helped keep it simple.

This is a handout that the students used to find out information about each health care pioneer. It was a carousel activity: two students stayed at the table to present and the other two walked around gathering information (circling the correct answer). Then we stopped, talked about how it went, and then switched. The other two students from the group stayed at the table and the other two did the carousel.

Angela Thompson shared this from her Harlem level 5/6 class. 

They were researching volunteer organizations. I think Read Across America is coming up, so they were doing research ways to participate as well.

Want to have your class featured? 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

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“A teacher affects eternity: He can never tell where his influence stops”
Henry Adams

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