Adult Interest Section
Carol Foye Wallin, David Atterbury, Erin Evans, and Suzanne McCurdy (College and Adult IS chairs) at Fall Conference 2011
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The 2012 AIS Spring Event is scheduled for Saturday, April 14th from 10:30am to 12:30 at Neighborhood House in St. Paul.
Many of you were at our MinneTESOL Conference meeting in the fall. We discussed the challenges and opportunities surrounding part-time employment in teaching. We want to continue along that vein for our Spring Event. We are organizing a panel of employers from both ABE/ESL organizations and colleges/universities. The panel will discuss and answer questions concerning what makes an ESL teacher a good candidate for full-time employment.
We will release more information as it becomes available.
Thank you and hope to see you on April 14th.
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Suzanne Gilchrist McCurdy
suzanne.mccurdy@gmail.com
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Favorite online resources for Adult Interest Section members!
Dave’s ESL Café www.eslcafe.com
Many activity ideas and links to other sites. Extensive job postings and discussion boards.
The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org
Lesson plans, activities, links, research articles and more. Popular “Conversation Questions” page.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt graphic organizers www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
A variety of downloadable and printable graphic organizers for both adults and children.
Discovery Education Puzzlemaker http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Make puzzles using vocabulary you choose. Fast and easy.
Breaking News English www.breakingnewsenglish.com
Current news stories written with ELLs in mind and recorded for use in listening lessons. Complete with pre-reading/listening activities, reading/listening activities and follow-up.
Mpls ABE Online Computer Lab http://mpsabe.mpls.k12.mn.us/abe_computer_labv2.html
Links by level and theme that learners can self-navigate.
Classroom Assessment Techniques www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/active/strategies/index.html
Active learning strategies that double as formative assessment techniques.
New American Horizons www.newamericanhorizons.org
NAH is a foundation with the goal of producing professional quality teacher training videos for dissemination at no cost to the consumer. As of December 2010, there are two core lesson videos available for viewing, six more are slated to be available soon. Extra footage will be made into “themed videos”, ones in which a particular technique is highlighted.
ESL Library www.esl-library.com
You must pay for a membership to this site (roughly $40/year), but you will have access to scads of lesson plans and flashcards.
Wordle www.wordle.net
Wordle creates word clouds out of text you provide. Use it for pre-reading, discussions, word-finds or just for fun.
Jennifer ESL www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL
YouTube page. Jennifer has over 170 video lessons that are excellent for both students learning English and teachers / education students.
English with Jennifer www.englishwithjennifer.com
Same Jennifer as above. This site has lesson plans, study tips and a blog.
Bow Valley College’s extensive resources for teachers of low-literacy adult ESL:
