INTERNATIONAL ELT WORKSHOPS, FALL 2009

OVERVIEW

Leslie Opp-Beckman and Kay Westerfield from the University of Oregon (UO), Linguistics Department, American English Institute (AEI) will be offering workshops in the Middle East region Fall 2009. This website offers copies of some of the materials which will be used in the workshops.

WORKSHOP LEADERS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

	Leslie Opp-Beckman, PhD, Senior Instructor and Distance Education & Technology Coordinator.   CV: http://www.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/resume.html   Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu   PH: +1-541-346-3945 FX: +1-541-346-3917 Mailing Address: 5212 University of Oregon, AEI Eugene, Oregon 97403-5212 USA
	Kay Westerfield, Senior Instructor and International Business Communication Program Director.   CV: http://www.uoregon.edu/~kwesterf   Email: kwesterf@uoregon.edu   PH: +1-541-346-3945 FX: +1-541-346-3917 Mailing Address: 5212 University of Oregon, AEI Eugene, Oregon 97403-5212 USA

 

INDEX OF TOPICS (MODULES) AND RESOURCES

 

"Shaping the Way We Teach English" Materials

• Printables: See the Supporting Website for Shaping with copies of printable materials and links to free, online videos.

• Videos, now also available directly through YouTube-UO (use the word "Shaping" to search for all modules, as needed).

Handouts:

• Advice Box.

• Alphabet Poem.

• Brag Game.

• Chain Stories. Use with Boggles ESL World Creative Writing Prompts.

• Board Game.

• Building Blocks (uses realia).

• Fun with Fractions (uses realia).

• Literature Circles (explanation), with lesson plan by Rita McLary: Literature Circles in Action.

• Newspaper Compare/Contrast. Use with the Venn Diagram graphic organizer on the Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction site by Judie Haynes.

• Newspaper Headline Cut-Ups (uses English newspapers).

• Pictionary and Charades.

• Readers Theater.

• Rock or Feather?

• Six Thinking Hats, from Edward de Bono.

• Truth or Lie?

• Write a Story (uses magazine pictures).

Web-bliographies:

• Enhancing L2 Fluency: Practical Tips for Writing and Speaking (print double-sided on one sheet of paper).

• Motivating and Managing Large English Language Classes (print double-sided on one sheet of paper).

• Project-Based Learning in an Integrated Skills Framework (print double-sided on one sheet of paper).

Checklists and Guides:

• Assessing Group Work.

• Checklist, Classroom Practices: Classroom Management.

• Checklist, Classroom Practices: Class Routines, A Self-Rating Scale, adapted from the Cooke Center, NY.

• Guide: Classroom Management: Discipline and Organization, from CanTeach, Canada.

• Guide: Setting up Your Classroom.

• Guide: Transition Techniques, tips from from Angela Powell.

• Guide: List of Rewards.

Readings and Other Resources:

• 30 Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection, by Jack C. Richards.

• Cooperative Learning Strategies, by Colorín Colorado.

• Into, Through, and Beyond. A Framework to Develop Content-Based Material, by Donna M. Brinton and Christine Holten, Forum Magazine.

• Language Learning Strategies: An Update, by Rebecca Oxford, CAL Digests.

• Language Learning Strategies: An Overview for L2 Teachers, by M. Lessard-Clouston, I-TESL-J.

• Learning Strategy Inventory for Language Learners, Version 7.0, developed by Rebecca Oxford.

• Language Learning Strategies: Theory and Research, by Carol Griffiths.

• MyRead, Strategies for Teaching Reading in the Middle Years.

• PBL...What is Project Based Learning? Definition from the Autodesk Foundation.
  

• PBL...Problem-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning, from Dave Moursund.
  

• PBL...Project-Based Instruction: Creating Excitement for Learning, August 2002, by Jennifer Railsback.
  

• PBL...Project Work, A Means to Promote Language Content, by Fredricka L. Stolle, Forum Magaziner.
  

• PBL...Problem-Based Learning in Language Instruction: A Constructivist Method (ERIC Digest, ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication Digest #132), by Mardziah Hayati Abdullah.
  

• PBL...PBL Checklists, from ALTEC, University of Kansas.
  

• Second Language Learning and Use Strategies: Clarifying the Issues, by Andrew D. Cohen, CARLA.

• Scholastic's Rubric Maker to generate a personalized assessment rubric.

• Teaching Tips: Cooperative Learning Strategies, from eMINTS.