Presenting at the TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo is an exciting professional development opportunity.听 It is also a chance to express yourself and embrace your passion for English teaching with 6,000 people from around the world.听 It seems appropriate that the first step to participating in the TESOL convention is to register, assemble a name tag with your name and school, and then select from any number of ribbon stickers that help identify how you see yourself.听 There are ribbons for presenters, convention leaders, publishers, and from all of the , including Intensive English Programs, Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Assessment Issues, and Environmental Responsibility to name a few.听 Long-time members can also add a ribbon to their nametag that proclaims the number of decades they have been dedicated to the English teaching establishment.听
TESOL 2020 will be in Denver.听 What will your ribbons say?听
Below are presentation abstracts from International English Center instructors who presented at the 2019 TESOL Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.听 Each title links to a pdf of the presentation.听 Presenters describe materials creation, teaching methods and different ways of assessing students in reading, speaking and service learning.听
Barbara Flocke and Summer Webb听
Come learn about two interactive experiential learning projects implemented in an IEP volunteering elective.听 Presenters demonstrate how they use critical reflection to guide student critical thinking and assess learning.听 Participants leave with ideas for reflective activities, prompts and assessment tools which can be adapted for their own experiential learning projects.
Katie Mitchell with Olivia Livneh and Nick Einterz
Presenters highlight strategies for creating reading assessments that measure student preparedness for university reading assignments. Presenters identify online tools and metrics used to vet reading passages for authentic reading and integrated skills assessment tasks. Attendees acquire useful resources for both classroom and programmatic reading assessment.
Kendra Staley
The development of teaching and learning materials cannot be separated from issues of power, representation, context or content. This panel of materials writers share global perspectives on the development and contextualization of English teaching materials for equity and social justice with a lens on social responsibility, reconciliation, and representation.
Katie Mitchell
Teachers know summary writing is important, but they may struggle to teach it. In this session, participants learn two effective activities for teaching summary writing. They leave with practical ideas, along with student samples and handouts.
Barbara Flocke and Summer Webb Ploegman
Help your IEP students overcome their speaking plateaus by implementing a series of critical reflection activities founded in course objectives. Tasks include Google surveys, self-evaluations, transcription exercises, peer observations, and targeted speaking activities. You will leave with examples of and
adaptations to these reflective activities to implement in your classes.
Kendra Staley with Carolyn Allen and Anna Hamp
This ESP presentation showcases a Medical English program that was originally developed for Turkmen medical specialists by an EL Fellow and then adapted for Mexican Navy cadets at an IEP in Colorado. Attendees will leave with easily-adaptable lesson plans and activities for beginning-to-advanced English levels and various medical professions.
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