February 8, 2019
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Pompous Proverbs
Presented by Lydia Sparksworthy Lydia entertained the chapter with a challenging and fun activity found in last month’s issue of Language Magazine. The activity was created by Richard Lederer with the goal of challenging participants to simplify the language he used in the text. Lydia is a part time ESL instructor at CEL (College of English Language). |
January 11, 2019
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Using Vignettes to Explore Intercultural Issues in k12 contexts
Presented by Saladin Davies Sal lead an interesting mini-workshop where attendees reviewed and discussed one of two vignettes that presented an intercultural dilemma to resolve. Sal teaches linguistics in the CTEL certification program at Alliant International University. |
October 23, 2015
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Human Trafficking
Presented by Summer West Summer presented on human trafficking in the San Diego area and its relevance to the ESL community. She explained the different categories of exploitation, who can be trafficking, why victims cannot leave their abuser, and how to identify a student who is a victim. Summer teaches at the UCSD Extension English Language Institute. |
April 11, 2015
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Promoting Active Learning with Technology
Presented by Stephanie Thomas Stephanie presented on using apps in her classes where the students can record themselves reading through the week, and also she records them reading a story they wrote. She also uses a fun activity/storyline of her cat traveling to various sites (countries her students come from) throughout the world. |
January 9, 2015
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Voice Thread
Presented by Amir Monfared Amir presented an online tool, voicethread.com, which allows users to add voice annotation to a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos. Amir is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Leadership and Management program at Alliance International University. |
March 6, 2014
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What We Don’t Talk About in ESL – You
Presented by invited speaker Lynn Francis, M.A.,M.S. The inner life of the teacher does not often get acknowledged. Yet who you are affects your teaching. Lynn offers a thought provoking, interactive presentation on what is usually not discussed in ESL: boundaries, personality types, positive and negative emotional triggers. Bring examples of difficult, amazing, or perplexing workplace experiences which provided you an opportunity to self-reflect to share with other participants. Lynn has been an ESL Instructor for over 30 years and is also a holistic life coach and a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has taught, trained, and presented workshops in the field of personal growth in many different countries. She writes the Inner Dialogue column for the San Diego Continuing Education newsletter Dialogue and Inner News for CATESOL News. |
February 7, 2014
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How to Incorporate a Volunteer Program into an ESL Program
Presented by Daniel Heckmyer Daniel graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.A in Cultural Anthropology. He taught in Taiwan for four years and then served a one-year term in AmeriCorps working with 5th graders and developing after-school and positive incentive programs. After completing his M.A in Education, he taught public school in Oregon and San Diego. He is now the Academic Coordinator and CSR Champion at EC, a private Adult IEP in La Jolla. |
January 16, 2014
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Meditation Practice for ESL Instructors: Learn How to De-stress and Relax Anywhere and Anytime
Workshop presented by Erika Marie Rose Erika is a certified Reiki Master, Sound Healing Practitioner, and Meditation Instructor.The workshop will finish with a Tibetan bowl sound healing. |
January 24, 2013
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Employment at IEPs
Presented by Tamara Ziniga-Brown |
Concordancers
Presented by Erika Marie Rose Erika presented an online resource, www.lextutor.ca/conc . Concordancers are very good for teaching collocations and to see how words are used in context. |
November 9, 2012
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Gradesource.com
Presented by Maria Allan Maria presented an online grade resource, gradesource.com, a web-based grade book that makes grade keeping manageable. |
October 5, 2012
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Practical Teaching Tips
Presented by Maria Allan Maria presented two vocabulary building strategies: (1) She uses giant wall stickers to write word maps for new words, with arrows pointing to boxes for synonyms, antonyms, an example of the word in a sentence, and other word forms (word family) and (2) she keeps an on-going list of everyday words along with their academic synonyms (idea-view, rules-norms) to boost students’ awareness of the academic register. |
September 7, 2012
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Lessons Plans
Presented by Erika Marie Rose & Gretchen Bitterlin Erika shared a writing lesson plan which encouraged student interaction through jigsaw group work and group quiz writing as preparation for a writing assignment. Gretchen presented a lesson based on presidential candidates in which different students possess different information about each candidate. Students then circulate and ask questions to complete the charts. |
May 18, 2012
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Comics on Education in the Arab World
Presented by Haytham Boles |
April 20, 2012
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Language Acquisition: Are We Teaching the Right Grammar in the Right Order?
Presented by Magdalena Kwiatkowski |
January 20, 2012
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Zero Prep Activities
Presented by Leah Cooper, Daniel Heckmyer, Maria Allan & Rheba Smith Leah shared her Great Paper Debate, in which the class discusses a two-sided issue in writing. She distributed handouts that explain the activity in depth. Daniel presented his Open Ended Question Quest, in which students write several open-ended questions to be completed by the other students in the class. He also shared his Password Power, in which students must describe targeted vocabulary to a partner using clues about the word’s meaning. Maria explained her Dictionary Line-Up designed to help students develop alphabetizing skills. She also shared 16 Square Bingo played like classical Bingo but with students creating their own Bingo cards by folding a piece of paper into 16 squares and copying a word from a list on the board into each. Rheba presented Plastic Paper Recyclable Games, which utilize sheet protectors that can be written on with transparency pens then wiped clean. She also explained Running Dictation, in which she places a list of vocabulary words on the outside door of her classroom and requires students to run out, read the list, then dictate the words to a group of students. |