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Title: Activity: Interesting Questions
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From https://wednesdayseminars.wordpress.com
Do your students ask simple questions that they often already know the answer to? In this activity, the person must ask a question that the other person finds truly interesting in order to earn an answer: https://wednesdayseminars.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/interesting-questions-an-activity/
Source: Wednesday Seminars
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Title: Learn More about Translanguaging from CUNY-NYSIEB
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From https://www.cuny-nysieb.org/translanguaging-resources/translanguaging-guides/
CUNY-NYS Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals offers a series of Translanguaging Guides that offer dozens of strategies and approaches for teachers working with emergent bilingual students at all grade levels and in all program models. A video series introduces you to Christina Celic and Kate Seltzer's Translanguaging: The CUNY-NYSIEB Guide for Educators.
Access these valuable resources at https://www.cuny-nysieb.org/translanguaging-resources/translanguaging-guides/
Source: CUNY-NYSIEB
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Title: Write a Letter to Yourself
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From http://ddeubel.edublogs.org
In this blog post, David Deubelbeiss describes a technique he uses with his methods students, inspired by a music teacher who uses the technique. He asks his students to write themselves a letter, from the perspective of themselves at the end of the course, explaining how/why they earned an A in the course. The students seal the letter and save it for themselves.
Read the blog post and think of ways to adapt this activity in a wide variety of contexts here: http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/09/26/letter-to-self/
Source: EFL Classroom 2.0
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Title: Picture Prompts from the New York Times
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English language teacher Larry Ferlazzo recently pointed out the over 140 pictures prompts that the New York Times curates to inspire student writing. Read more about them here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/learning/over-140-picture-prompts-to-inspire-student-writing.html
Access the curated prompts here: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-picture-prompt?module=inline
Get ideas for how you and your students can use them in your classes here: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/how-to-teach-with-our-picture-prompts-and-other-times-images
Source: New York Times
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Title: We All Have Accents
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Condé Nast just released a cute video of fifty people talking about their states' accents in English (mostly). The video is a great reminder that everyone has an accent: https://youtu.be/UcxByX6rh24
Source: YouTube
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Title: Sub-Categories of Novice Low and Novice Mid, and a Hiking Metaphor
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From http://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com
Julie of Mundo de Pepita talks about her efforts to think about the ACTFL proficiency standards from the perspective of an elementary school learner. She writes, "A Kindergartner in September is a different Novice Low than a First Grader in June, after having two years of class." She goes on to present her sub-levels using the metaphor of hiking up a mountain, progressing from a sidewalk, to a lawn, to an easy nature trail, and on through a nature trail with a hill. Read her blog post to learn more about how she presents language growth in this way, and to access the visuals that she's created: http://elmundodepepita.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-ive-broken-down-novice-low-mid-into.html
Source: Mundo de Pepita
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Title: Paper Portfolios to Show Growth
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AnneMarie Chase describes the process she uses to have her students build portfolios showcasing their growth throughout the year, with extra opportunities for reflection and ownership of their learning. She especially emphasizes what teachers with Novice learners can do, even at the beginning of the school year, to get some samples of student work.
Read her post at https://senorachase.com/2019/06/13/looking-good-portfolios/
Source: Señora Chase
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Title: Saying Goodbye to International Programs Cohorts
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We said good bye to several student programs last month: Tamgawa, Oregon International Internship Program and Waseda CS-L. In the Tamagawa program, the students all aspire English teachers in Japan. They first began their journey with 4-week Oregon Experience Program, then two terms to study English in American English Institute, and finally a K-12 educational internship. Student interns at OIIP are from China and Taiwan; they are placed in Eugene/Springfield areas for 5-month to serve as teaching assistants in local classrooms. Finally, the Waseda program welcomes students of all English proficiency levels. It is a combination of AEI and UO customized program for the whole academic year._07-01-19.jpg)
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"It was always difficult to say good bye to the students. It has been a pleasure working with all these students and seeing them grow through their study abroad experiences," says Li-Hsien Yang, East Asia Programs Director. Following the farewell, CASLS is gearing up to get ready for new students for couple of different programs. We are always looking forward to revising and improving our curricula and programs for our students so that the new changes will enhance their experiences
Source: CASLS Spotligiht
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Title: Self-Care, Summer Productivity, and the Choices We Make
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By Julie Sykes, CASLS Director
It has become tradition at CASLS to make July about self-care. Last year, we focused on Languaging and Self Care and will continue the thread this year. We encourage you to revisit last year’s post and read it here. We will continue these practices this month and add to them as the weeks unfold. As a recap, last year, we highlighted three critical dispositions and suggested journaling about each one.
Disposition 1: Suspend judgment
- Notice without passing judgment.
- Move beyond assigning blame.
- Reserve assigning value and gather more information.
- Ask fundamental questions to challenge unconscious presuppositions.
Disposition 2: Participate with intention
- Know your capacity and give yourself permission to opt out or double down.
- Practice the art of knowing your needs.
- Honor your boundaries.
- Ask fundamental questions to challenge unconscious presuppositions
Disposition 3: Elevate the discourse
- Cultivate a gracious internal dialogue.
- Practice generous assumptions with others.
- Tend to your own side of the street and mind your own business.
This year, we will dive more deeply into each one and add two additional to the list:
Disposition 4: Support others’ intention
- Respect others’ capacity and give them encouragement to opt out or double down.
- Honor the boundaries of others.
- Reserve assigning value to the choices others make.
- Challenge others to hold themselves to their own intention.
Disposition 5: Prioritize mental and physical health (Also see Disposition 2 above)
- Schedule time each day to reflect on your own needs and make time for them.
- Add wellness to your To-Do's.
- Encourage the wellness of others.
We hope you enjoy going on this journey with us. This July our hope is that InterCom serves as a reminder to ourselves and those around us. Focusing in on personal and professional well-being is critical for reaching our fullest potential. For some this might mean taking the month to rest and recharge. For others it might mean using the month to work far ahead into the school year to make things more manageable. For others, summer might just be about handling the tough or amazing parts of life, getting married, caring for a new baby, moving, finding extra family time, or a million other possibilities. So, for the next five weeks, InterCom is about YOU and giving yourself time to reflect on whatever that might be.
Source: CASLS Topic of the Week
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Title: Reflecting on Dispositions
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As you follow this month's series of articles about self-care, starting with today's article about dispositions related to languaging and self-care, we invite you reflect on each disposition. We begin this month by asking you to use the attached template for selecting areas of focus for reflection.
Source: CASLS Activity of the Week
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