ABBREVIATED WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
SESSION I 9:15-10:30
The Art of Summarizing: Using Summary Writing to Develop Reading Comprehension Skills – Mabel Batista, Melissa Valerie
In this workshop, participants will engage in activities featuring instructional strategies designed to provide students with direct instruction in summary writing.
Connecting Learning Strategies to Content Retention – Timothy Ruffin
This workshop will be a hands-on demonstration of learning strategies that have been shown to increase understanding and retention in TASC subjects such as math, reading, writing, social studies and science.
What’s up with Mobile Learning? Voice Recording & Whatsapp for Language Learning – Eileen Murphy
In this workshop, participants will engage in a range of authentic scaffolded speaking activities using WhatsApp that allow learners to practice speaking.
Investigating the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Core Disciplinary Idea of Natural Selection (LS4.B) – Thomas Trocco and Avril De Jesus
This workshop will begin with an introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards and how the TASC science subtest is aligned to them. It will be followed by a hands-on activity that simulates industrial melanism and evolution in action.
“WANY MYNI: Setting Low Level Students Up for Success with Reading” – Moira Taylor
In this workshop, participants will engage in demonstration activities using the WANY MYNI curriculum and will brainstorm their own ideas for its usage.
Increasing the Effectiveness of Language Learning by Developing Improvisational Skills & Creativity in the Interactive Classroom – Diana Vayserfirova
In this workshop, the presenter and student volunteers will actively engage participants in several improvisational group activities. Each activity will be followed by Q&A to address participants’ questions.
Annotating: How to Interact with the Text Using Non-fiction – Debra Brooks & Marlene Valdez
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use the tool of annotation effectively in the classroom. They will also learn how successful collaboration and effective task sharing techniques are achieved by the facilitator and lab assistant at CLIP.
SESSION II 11:00-12:15
Exploring the Advantages of Integrating Social Studies – Civics and English Language Arts – Cheryl Wilson
In this workshop, participants will share strategies for building a classroom with different level learners. They will participate in small group activities linking ELA and Social Studies/Civics that will challenge their understanding of the duties of the 3 branches of the American government and how they work for the American people.
Planning Project-Based Learning with ESOL/Literacy Students – Emily Skalet
Using a theme-based instructional model, participants will explore different types of authentic and community-based texts to develop engaging, communicative language and literacy projects to bring back to their own classrooms.
Using the CUNY Career Kits in the HSE Classroom – Kate Brandt
This workshop presents lessons drawn from the Kits that help students practice reading strategies for the TASC as well as for the TASC essay. Participants will try out selected activities from the Kits discussing how these would work in their own classrooms.
Grammar: The What, when, Where, Why and How! – Judy Trupin
Participants in this workshop will explore some effective approaches for teaching grammar to Beginning and Intermediate language learners. The workshop will include interactive and fun grammar-based activities.
The Tenement Museum and its New Object-Based Program “Your Story, Our Story” – Julia Mushalko
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to inquire about the different ways we collect stories from ESOL students and to find out about the museum’s current work with English Language Learners. We will explore existing stories and also model the writing process.
Getting Googly: The Basics of Google Drive and Google Docs – Nell Eckersley
In this workshop, we will review all the tools available in Google Drive and discuss how Google Docs and Google Drive Folders can be used. Participants will log into their own Google account, make a folder for the sessions’ activities and create their own Google Docs.
Effective Homework Practices: Help Students Improve Their Study Skills – Erna Golden
In this workshop, practitioners will participate in a variety of activities that highlight focus, purpose and strategy in approaching homework, and study skills. They will be introduced to new and reintroduced to old techniques that will help students to improve study skills and transform homework sessions.
CollectEDNY: Teacher-Approved Teaching Resources for the BE & HSE Classroom – Mark Trushkowsky, Eric Appleton
In this workshop, participants will get an overview of the CollectEDNY website (go-to website for adult education and HSE teaching materials) and have an opportunity to explore some of the resources with their peers.
Really, Reasonably, Regularly Integrating the Arts into Instruction – Crystal Rodwell
In this workshop, we’ll explore the whats and hows of integrating arts into instruction in ABE and ESOL classrooms. Participants will discuss their experience with and ideas about bringing art into the classroom. They will also complete a modified gallery walk.
SESSION III 1:15-2:30
Objects: Writing about All Kinds of Stuff – June Foley
In this workshop, we read and analyze several works about objects. Participants then will write about an object, and volunteers share.
“Flip that Class: Methods & Activities to Promote Active Learning in the ESOL Classroom” - Stacy Wayne Teter
This workshop will begin with a short overview of the Flipped Classroom. Participants will then interact to work on a small project that involves interviewing participants for a mock online publication.
Fun with Humor in Second Language Learning – Nick Miraflores
In this workshop, participants learn how to use jokes, riddles, puzzles, cartoons, TV ads, film segments and funny folktales to have a real good laugh while learning.
Powerful Internet and Computer Resources for the Teacher and the Student – Peter Romani
Participants will view demonstrations of high interest and effective web sites for teachers or students. They will explore sample demos of developed resources for practice tests and assessments in TABE, TASC, Common Core and upper level ESOL. Participants are asked to bring their own flash drives or USB devices.
Using Social Media for Advocacy – Nell Eckersley
In this workshop, we cover the basics of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as tools for advocacy reviewing NYCAAL’s (New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy) advocacy work. Participants will create or log in to at least one of these accounts.
Workplace Vocabulary: There’s More to it than Business Speak – Erna Golden
In this workshop, we will explore some of the wide range of workplace terminology students may encounter in the workplace. Participants will engage in written and verbal business communications and unpack workplace vocabulary at tiers 1, 2, 3 (1 = everyday word level, 2=interdisciplinary word level, 3= domain specific level).
Community of Adult Math Instructors (CAMI): Problem Solving and Teacher Learning – Eric Appleton, Jane Tarica, Mark Trushkowsky
In this workshop, representatives from CAMI will model the process used in our math teachers’ circle. Participants will engage in a mathematical problem-solving activity and share their findings.
Teaching ESOL to Large Adult Multi-Level Classes – Regina M. Snyder
The presenter will discuss and demonstrate various collaborative techniques and instructional methods aimed at developing teamwork skills. Participants will be engaged in differentiated student groupings and tiered activities that allow all learners access to the same understandings and skills.
Building Financial Empowerment: Lessons and Resources of Services for ESOL Teachers and Case Managers – Julie Quinton, Juliana Giraldo
In this workshop, we will share a range of ESOL lessons that MRNY (Make the Road NY) instructors have gathered, tailored or created to teach diverse financial literacy topics. Participants will engage in Q&A with facilitators and learn about a variety of free services available to students across NYC.
PANEL DESCRIPTION
ABE Conference, High School of Fashion Industries
April 21st, 2:45 to 4:00 PM
Tentative proposed panelists:
Abstract
We Speak NYC (formerly We Are New York) is the City’s English Language Learning program that provides content-based civic focused instruction through videos, print education materials, and free community classes in all five boroughs. We Speak videos and materials highlight City services and have been used extensively in both formal and informal ESL classrooms and for self-study by English Language Learners (ELLs). The first season of We Speak NYC videos highlighted such issues as education, health, emergency preparedness, and domestic violence, and won two NY Emmy awards. The second season, releasing in June 2018 will focus on workforce development, worker’s rights, mental health, elder care, and social services, among others.
We Speak videos are meant for ELTs and ELLs and portray everyday stories of immigrant leadership while the educational materials focus on community problem solving skills and access to government resources.
Since its relaunch in June 2015, We Speak has organized over 450 conversations groups and engaged over 9,000 ELLs at 10 week conversation classes in all five boroughs. The program has trained over 400 volunteers who have provided over 12,000 hours of community services at these classes.
In this panel, We Speak will show one of their new episodes, discuss recent policies and mandates that affect immigrants and ELLs, and share ways in which teachers and students can use We Speak resources to learn about and inform other immigrant New Yorkers about their rights and available City services. We Speak will also present briefly on an interactive website platform for ELLs that will be released to the public in summer 2018 along with a wide array of new educational materials.
Proposed Timeline
Panelists will discuss the importance of civic engagement in an ESOL context, important at any time, and especially vital in today’s political climate. Panelists will also touch on the ways in which We Speak NYC material functions both as standalone curricula as well as supplemental material.
April 21st, 2:45 to 4:00 PM
Tentative proposed panelists:
- Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
- Leslee Oppenheim, CUNY University Director Language and Literacy Programs
- Sam Seifnourian/David Hellman, We Speak NYC script writer
- We Speak Facilitator
- We Speak Student
Abstract
We Speak NYC (formerly We Are New York) is the City’s English Language Learning program that provides content-based civic focused instruction through videos, print education materials, and free community classes in all five boroughs. We Speak videos and materials highlight City services and have been used extensively in both formal and informal ESL classrooms and for self-study by English Language Learners (ELLs). The first season of We Speak NYC videos highlighted such issues as education, health, emergency preparedness, and domestic violence, and won two NY Emmy awards. The second season, releasing in June 2018 will focus on workforce development, worker’s rights, mental health, elder care, and social services, among others.
We Speak videos are meant for ELTs and ELLs and portray everyday stories of immigrant leadership while the educational materials focus on community problem solving skills and access to government resources.
Since its relaunch in June 2015, We Speak has organized over 450 conversations groups and engaged over 9,000 ELLs at 10 week conversation classes in all five boroughs. The program has trained over 400 volunteers who have provided over 12,000 hours of community services at these classes.
In this panel, We Speak will show one of their new episodes, discuss recent policies and mandates that affect immigrants and ELLs, and share ways in which teachers and students can use We Speak resources to learn about and inform other immigrant New Yorkers about their rights and available City services. We Speak will also present briefly on an interactive website platform for ELLs that will be released to the public in summer 2018 along with a wide array of new educational materials.
Proposed Timeline
- Welcome by Kunchok Dolma
- Show a WANY episode
- Remarks by MOIA Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner on recent policies and expected changes
- Each of the panelist have five minutes to speak about the stated subject (civics, civic engagement in the ESOL curriculum)
- Moderator Questions followed by attendees Q/A
Panelists will discuss the importance of civic engagement in an ESOL context, important at any time, and especially vital in today’s political climate. Panelists will also touch on the ways in which We Speak NYC material functions both as standalone curricula as well as supplemental material.