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Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference
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From https://wordpress.oise.utoronto.ca/lpp-conference/
Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy & Planning Conference
OISE, Toronto, Canada
August 22–24, 2019
Visit the conference website at https://wordpress.oise.utoronto.ca/lpp-conference/
Source: OISE
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Title: Webinar: Success with Multicultural Newcomers and English Learners
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Success with Multicultural Newcomers and English Learners
June 27, 2019
Through their longitudinal studies and work with hundreds of schools, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk, authors of the book Success with Multicultural Newcomers and English Learners: Proven Practices for School Leadership Teams, have found the best way to teach vocabulary, discourse, basic reading comprehension, and text-based writing integrated with content areas and texts. The authors will share how not only ESL teachers, but also all core content teachers in a school can easily integrate vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing into every subject. Establishing a whole-school climate for Newcomers and all students entails training all teachers, counselors, coaches, staff and administrators in the school.
Source: ASCD
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Title: Update on Global Seal of Biliteracy
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We've been closely monitoring the Seal of Biliteracy movement in InterCom, and more recently the Global Seal of Biliteracy initiative (https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/25561). Naturally, we're also very proud of the 210 students here at the University of Oregon who just earned a Global Seal of Biliteracy this year (https://rl.uoregon.edu/2019/06/10/uo-language-students-earn-global-seal-of-biliteracy/).
You can keep up with the latest news about the Global Seal of Biliteracy in this recent blog post by Linda Egnatz, the executive director of the program. Among other news, she focuses on the importance of viewing this credential as one step in the life-long journey towards greater and greater language proficiency.
Read what she has to say here: https://theglobalseal.com/blog/2019/6/10/the-global-seal-of-biliteracy-perspective-awards-affirm-credentials-empower
Meanwhile, on June 5, Representative Julia Brownley [D-CA-26] reintroduced H.R.3119 or the “Biliteracy Education Seal and Teaching (BEST) Act”. This bill would create a program of 2-year grants to State Education Agencies (SEAs) to develop, implement, or improve the Seal of Biliteracy, with additional funding for high-impact districts to defray the cost of testing. Learn more about this bill and how you can support it at https://languagepolicy.org/seal-of-biliteracy-legislation-introduced-in-116th-congress/
Source: Global Seal of Biliteracy
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Title: Lesson Plan: Sanskrit Collaborative Blog
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Here is a lesson plan, created by Amy Hyne-Sutherland, that guides students to curate a collaborative blog featuring references to Sanskrit in popular culture and everyday life. It is targeted at second-year and above Sanskrit students.
Access the lesson plan at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnw-DGfFzKKgav9vYJ16lWcLdxbCbXJA9zYY8ValMqA/view
Source: COERLL
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Title: Photo Challenge for Spanish Learners
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From https://www.spanishplayground.net
Here's a fun activity for young Spanish learners of all ages: a photo challenge. Print out the checklist and send learners off to take photos of each item or category. The blog post includes suggestions for what to do before, during, and after taking the photo along with the printable checklist: https://www.spanishplayground.net/photo-challenge-spanish/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Current Events Activities for English Learners
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From http://blog.tesol.org/make-some-news-current-events-for-elt/
Greg Kessler writes, "Contemporary news stories and current events can be a great context for English classes. The relevance and currency of content can increase interest and engagement and having students create their own news reports can help increase fluency, accuracy, and confidence (Tseng, 2018). Teachers can provide learners with news in text, video, or audio across various levels of complexity. Learners can also be supported to create their own news stories, reports, videos, or even newspaper websites."
Read the full blog post for suggestions for using the news in a variety of ways: http://blog.tesol.org/make-some-news-current-events-for-elt/
Source: TESOL Blog
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Title: Blogs for English Language Teachers
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From https://www.compellingconversations.com
Eric H. Roth writes, "How do you continue to improve as an English teacher? How do you find new teaching resources and new EFL materials? Where do you go to exchange ideas, find research, and reflect on your English classroom experiences?
"The traditional answers include earning a graduate degree in education, attending a professional organization like TESOL, or going to an employer’s professional development workshop. They all work. However, these traditional answers also require some money or access to credit. Yet the internet and social media also open up new options. They provide us with other, more affordable choices. Free, quality ELT, EFL, and ESL resources surround us.
"We can form our own bespoken Personal Learning Network (PLN) today. In other words, we can choose to follow fellow educators and researchers on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. For a growing number of English language teachers and trainers around the world, these posts, threads, and chats provide an astonishing range of perspectives and experiences. As a result, we can follow our own intellectual interests and design our own professional development program. As my friend Brent Warner noted in a 2015 CATESOL presentation on Twitter, you can often learn more – for free – from your PLN than by earning a very expensive graduate degree in TESOL. What’s not to like?"
Read the full blog post to find out Mr. Roth's favorite teacher blogs: https://www.compellingconversations.com/elt-personal-learning-network
Source: Compelling Conversations
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Title: Scaffolds to Support English Learners' Learning
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Source: TESOL Blog
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Title: Website: Teaching Refugees with Limited Formal Schooling
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From http://teachingrefugees.com/teaching-refugees-with-limited-formal-schooling/2835-2/
The Teaching Refugees with Limited Formal Schooling supports educators with English language learners who have gaps in schooling, are new to their host country, and may have experienced grief, trauma, and loss. Although created for educators in Alberta, Canada, the site includes resources of use to educators of such students anywhere.
Explore the website at http://teachingrefugees.com/
Source: Teaching Refugees with Limited Formal Schooling
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Title: Podcast: Multiliteracies and Digital Social Reading
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In Episode 109 of the We Teach Languages podcast series, Abby Broughton interviews Dr. Carl Blythe, Director of the Center of Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL). Abby and Carl discuss multiliteracies, digital social reading, and centering meaning and the interpretive mode of communication in language instruction.
Listen and access the show notes at https://weteachlang.com/2019/06/21/ep-109-with-carl-blythe/
Source: We Teach Languages
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