CATESOL Spring Virtual Conference 2021

05/07/2021 - 09/18/2021

Agenda

Effective Practices for One-on-One Pronunciation Feedback for Advanced Learners

Viewers observe effective practices and resources for providing guidance and feedback to advanced English learners striving to improve their pronunciation, particularly in one-on-one and small group instructional situations, whether they are International teaching assistants, corporate executives, real estate agents, restaurateurs, or engineers.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Marsha Chan

Engage and Motivate ELLs with Music

Learn to integrate music into weekly lessons, motivating student engagement and building language fluency. Demonstrations of integrating music for all ages and levels of language learners are provided. Theoretical foundations for the impact of music are shared, and a variety of ways to incorporate music, in and out of class, are modeled.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Aileen Hale

Flipgrid for Low-Tech, Low-English or DSPS Students

Flipgrid has been popular in education, but how can we make Flipgrid more inclusive for Beginning Low ELLs? This session offers techniques to help make the first Flipgrid assignment successful for students with low technology/English skills and ESL students with hearing and speech disabilities.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Winnie Dinh

Lights, Camera, Caption: Let’s Make a YouTube Channel

One way to enhance remote instruction is by creating a YouTube channel for ELLs. Students may struggle with Canvas, but they know how to click a YouTube link! This workshop will detail the basic steps of making and editing videos, with a special focus on delivering fun and ADA-accessible content.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Winnie Dinh

Providing Written Feedback to Students Online: Three Ways to Maximize Engagement

When students receive written feedback as part of an online course, how can we check if students are truly understanding the feedback, and therefore able to improve? In this teaching tip, I will describe three techniques to make written feedback more effective.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Kate Kessler

Student Equity and Accessible Course Content

Adult English language learners seek education to reach personal, academic, or career goals. What can we do to support them and serve their needs? While designing the course content, the foremost focus should be placed on accessibility. This video presentation will answer why we need to make our course content accessible and how.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Song Hong

Tips to Promote Growth Mindsets in ESL Learners

This presentation will provide practical tips for educators to cultivate a growth mindset in ESL learners. Students' mindsets towards language learning affect their anxiety levels, engagement, willingness to seek feedback, and willingness to communicate. These tips will provide easy and feasible lesson ideas to promote a growth mindset in learners.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Tiffany Laiyin Lao

Using Drama to Assist the ESL and EFL in Speaking and Listening

This presentation addresses using Drama to assist ESL and EFL students in speaking and listening through critical thinking, readers theatre, role playing and digital storytelling. The struggles of speaking anxiety and shyness are additionally addressed and supported through layered dramatical approaches.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Carol Damgen

Using Online-Learning Sources and Platforms for TOEFL Test Preparation

TOEFL preparation can maximize the use of online materials for remote learning. Learners can access online newspapers and magazines, podcasts, practice test sets, learning platforms, and computer programs specifically designed for language learning. These sources and platforms can be used to cater to the need for more EFL learning experience remotely.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Boniesta Melani

Using Word, Snag It, and Adobe Acrobat

This video will show ESL teachers there are alternative tools they can use that are very effective in helping beginning ESL students to improve their spelling, writing, and grammar skills. These tools are readily available to all teachers using Microsoft Word, Snag it, and Adobe Acrobat. These three tools together will generate more creativity and options for teachers in teaching and at the same time help improve ESL students’ spelling, writing and grammar skills.

Start

12:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Marcel Castillo

Conference Welcome

Start

1:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Susan Gaer

Critical Thinking Activities to Engage and Empower ESL Students

Students who are critical thinkers think independently, make well-informed decisions, and consider differing viewpoints—skills needed throughout their lives. Activities presented in this workshop include gallery walks, jigsaw, and activities to promote self-reflection, inquiry, discussion, and debate--all of which foster engagement and motivation.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Serena Chu-Mraz

Engaging Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Our presentations shares the development of a new nonprofit: TTELT (Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers), which consists of podcasts, a YouTube Channel, workshops and accredited PD courses. We will explain What TTELT is, Why we created it, and How teachers can participate, domestically and globally.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Aileen Hale

Gena Rhoades

Identifying and Addressing Problematic Structures in Writing

Problematic ideologies are not always obvious in news articles, textbooks, and academic writing. In this session, the presenter will give an overview of Critical Discourse Analysis, and go over six examples of problematic lexico-grammatical structures and ideas for addressing them.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Ricky De La Torre

Thriving Student Voices Amid COVID-19

Presenters will share the process of transforming a face-to-face student conference previously scheduled to take place in the spring 2020 into a successful virtual student conference where students were able to engage using the tech tools available to them in this time of pandemic.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Jose Lopez Mercedes

Merari Weber

Patricia Sanchez

Why Limit Ourselves: The Role and Importance of Multimodal Writing

The session examines the value for ELLs of going beyond the use of written text in academic writing to include video, audio and other digital tools to create multimodal texts and expand the possibilities for authoring as well as consuming academic work.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Kara Mac Donald

Sonia Estima

K-12 Educators Social Emotional Learning Action Research

K-12 educators will share their action research in social and emotional learning (SEL). Panelists will highlight how research informs their practices through culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy as well as trauma informed practices, a call for equity and how their positionality serves as a resource for learning and developing.

Start

2:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Andrea Pomerinke

Erika Saito

Jocelyn Moreno

Rebecca Astorga

Navigating Transformation, Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement in Higher Ed

Our ability to navigate transformation, inclusion, diversity, and engagement in the higher education setting is of paramount importance in today's scholarly movement towards greater educational access for all. This panel explores this concern from the perspective of both of California's public university systems (the UC and the CSU), to reflect on the pedagogical effectiveness of practices and their ability to foster a welcoming environment.

Start

2:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Jeremy Kelley

Open Educational Resources: What You Need to Know

This forum will showcase Open Educational Resource (OER) ESL materials, provide tips on adopting, adapting, and authoring OERs, explore gaps in materials available, and discuss concerns in using OER materials. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite OER materials to share.

Start

2:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Amanda Taintor

Rebecca Al Haider

Sally Potter

Sara Ferguson

The Guided Pathways Mindset for Planning Lessons and Resources

With the emphasis on Guided Pathways (GP) in Higher Education, the Level Forum will introduce GP and address how adult education instructors can fold a GP mindset into their own classroom community, including planning lessons and resources to prepare students for what’s next after they acquire the language skills they are pursuing in our programs.

Start

2:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Janet Cruz-Teposte

Merari Weber

Song Hong

The Importance of Reflective Practices

Last year, we experienced a period of adjustment when instruction moved online. As face to face instruction draws near, it’s helpful to professionally reflect on the past year. What are practices you plan to retain? How has your approach to instruction evolved? This forum provides a space to celebrate our flexibility and examine our practices.

Start

2:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Fawn Supernaw

Prima Gonzalez

A Tidal Wave of Activities for Pronunciation, Listening, and Speaking

Three pronunciation practitioners present activities for students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and levels. Each engaging task, explained, demonstrated, and deliverable in physical and virtual environments, fosters inclusive participation. A tsunami of ideas will help you transform your students into better speakers and listeners.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Jaydene Elvin

Marsha Chan

Randy Rightmire

Appropriating ESL/EFL Icebreaker Activities in the Teacher Education Classroom

This session argues that appropriating “classic” ESL/EFL icebreakers for TESOL teacher education can achieve much the same benefit as in the ESL/EFL classroom—namely to activate schemata, enhance student interaction and cross-cultural understanding, and increase participant engagement and inclusion.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Donna Brinton

Online Collaboration through Design Thinking Framework for Today's ESL Students

21st-century ESL classrooms should reflect a learning model that is engaging, collaborative, and student-centered. In this session, I will be sharing current research on collaborative activities and the use of technology to improve language reception and production. Online collaborative tools and design thinking framework will also be introduced.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Hande Yildiz

Riding the T.I.D.E. of Authentic Assessment

Assessing students using authentic tasks transforms pedagogy. Traditional assessments are still widely in use in Credit and Noncredit programs. To explore increasing the opportunity for engaging approaches to student learning, faculty will present models of authentic assessments that support shifts in pedagogy.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Arusyak Sargsyan

Maya Mosleh

Romina DerBedrossian

Samar AbiSaab

Sara Sadeghilar

Tiffany Ingle

The TESOL Practicum in the Era of Online Teaching

Responding to shelter-in-place, an MA Program created an online English program for student-teachers to design and teach classes to students overseas. Presenters share the impact on student teacher development and offer guidelines to establish and integrate similar exchanges in practicum classes.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

David Malinowski

Priyanvada Abeywickrama

Scott Phillabaum

Using Images, GIFs, Emojis, and Videos for Productive Practice

How can teachers provide opportunities in a variety of modalities to ensure that they are addressing the language goals of the course? Activities with images, GIFs,and video clips prompt student production of the target language. Successfully-used online activities and a list of resources and activities to try will be provided.

Start

3:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Christian Alejandra Vela Che

Katrina Tamura

Kristi Reyes

Social Justice Praxis – In and Beyond the Classroom

This Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plenary panel seeks to explore how ESL/EFL educators may effectively engage in social justice praxis (Freire, 1970 /1993) – in and beyond the classroom. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2009) noted that the process of “promoting opportunity and reducing inequality” not only begins in the classroom, but also argued that “great teaching” was defined by “a daily fight for social justice” (Hastings & Jacob, 2016, p. 3). Inspired by Duncan’s call to arms, this panel advocates for the creation of Socially Just Classrooms, in which English language educators serve as Social Justice Educators who become aware and critical of oppressive practices by engaging in self-reflective processes that focus on their respective positionality in relation to oppression, by advocating for the eradication of biased and socially unjust practices within and beyond the classroom. Social Justice Educators also take action by designing social justice curriculum, lesson plans and equitable assessments that effectively place their students’ funds of knowledge (Espinoza, et al., 2021) at the epicenter of the classroom. In a Socially Just Classroom, educators proactively create classrooms of belongingness - classrooms inclusive of the languages and cultures of minoritized communities.

Don't miss the follow-up workshops on Saturday!

Start

4:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Ekaterina Moore

Emmy Min

Esther Gross

Jenifer Crawford

Kimberly Ferrario

Nancy Kwang Johnson

Exhibitor Showcase: 20-minute Sessions Posted Below

Each exhibitor will be showcasing items in 20-minute sessions
5:00-5:20
5:20-5:40
5:40-6:00

Start

4:55 PM

End

11:30 PM

5:00-5:20 AmEnglish Online Pronunciation, Listening, Conversation, and Read Aloud eBooks; 5:20-5:40 AmEnglish Online Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Poetry; 5:40-6:00 Content-Based Instruction: English for Child Care and Child Development

AmEnglish Online Pronunciation, Listening, Conversation, and Read Aloud eBooks

Interactive programs provide instruction and guidance in listening discrimination and clear pronunciation, meaning and use of idioms and phrasal verbs, and conversation practice. Excellent for remote, hybrid, and in-person instruction on desktop and mobile devices. Beginner High through Intermediate High. Programs vetted by ETS©, maker of TOEFL© and TOEIC©. Read Aloud eBooks present rhyme, rhythm, word attack, at reading levels 1-6. Student tracking in all programs. Free trials.

AmEnglish Online Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Poetry

Improve writing and avoid syntax mistakes through engaging and varied types of online interaction. Pre- and post-tests. Vocabulary builders present TOEFL-level vocabulary in a unique blend of poetry and scientific facts, satisfying the range of text types for K-8 Common Core standards. Excellent for remote, hybrid, and in-person instruction on desktop and mobile devices. Beginner High through Advanced ESL levels. Programs vetted by ETS©, maker of TOEFL© and TOEIC©. Student tracking assists synchronous and asynchronous learning modes. Free trials.

Content-Based Instruction: English for Child Care and Child Development

English for Child Care: Language Skills for Parents and Providers, a curriculum available as a textbook with audio support and an enhanced ePub, provides practice for Beginner High to Intermediate Low ESL learners in the integrated skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. English for Child Development advances these skills with specific language and practical assignments to prepare Intermediate to Advanced Low ESL learners for an occupation in early childhood education. Appraised by ESL and ECE professionals.

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Marsha Chan

About OTAN (repeated at 5:00, 5:20. and 5:40 pm)

OTAN trains adult educators on how to effectively integrate technology in the classroom. We offer workshops for adult educators and staff throughout California. Our workshops and course materials are provided at no cost to California adult education programs, educators, or staff. Come learn more about what we have to offer!

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Alisa Takeuchi

Penny Pearson

Explore Alliant's Onsite and Online TESOL Programs (repeated at 5:00, 5:20. and 5:40 pm)

Get to know Alliant and our programs! CATESOL members are eligible for a tuition savings and application fee waiver.

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Hitting All the Right Notes for College & Career Success (repeated at 5:00, 5:20. and 5:40 pm)

Learn how Burlington’s standards-based online courses prepare students with rigorous academic content, civics knowledge, career readiness skills and digital literacy at all levels of instruction. With Burlington, teachers have the academic and career preparation curriculum needed to stay WIOA focused and help with IET/IELCE program success.

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Misty Martinez

Suzanne Robinson

How Simulation Based Learning is Transforming Education (repeated at 5:00, 5:20. and 5:40 pm)

This session will highlight how online simulations are being used to help students develop the skill and confidence they need to succeed in the real world. During the workshop InStage will show a live simulation and discuss how this technology is being used at Post Secondary institutions across Ontario to give students an opportunity to build confidence and practice for everything from a job interview, to a business presentation, and more. We will explain how InStage turns Zoom meetings into these immersive simulations so students can practice for these opportunities with a diverse cast of characters that makes it feel like they’re talking to real people. Afterwards students immediately receive personalized metrics on their rate of speech, volume, and use of filler words. This allows students to understand, track their progress, make improvements and try again.

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Imran Mouna

Road to Financial Freedom (repeated at 5:00, 5:20. and 5:40 pm)

We’ve been helping school employees build their futures for more than eighty years. Wherever you’re starting from, we can’t wait to help you bring your future to life. We design our products and services with you in mind, creating an ever-growing number of lower-cost, higher-quality offerings to help you build a strong financial future.

Start

5:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Kia Perkins

Social Networking Hour

Now that you have taken in all of Friday’s offerings, grab yourself a beverage and come unwind by chatting with your colleagues. You don’t want to miss out on the chance to win some great prizes!

Start

6:00 PM

End

11:30 PM

Positivity and Engagement in Online and Hybrid Teaching

This presentation will explore the concept of engagement from a personal level. We will look at how we can maximize student engagement in order to build positivity in online and hybrid classes through three best practices: (1) Knowing Your Students and Yourself, (2) Knowing Your Tools and Learning Environment, and (3) Harnessing the Power of Technology. Students and teachers alike can struggle with how best to teach and learn a language in online or hybrid formats. We will look at technologies and strategies that you can use to engage students in their own learning with technology, as well as engaging yourself as an educator during these challenging times.

Start

9:00 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Dawn Bikowski

Critical Intercultural Communication and Its Role in TESL/TEFL Programming

While intercultural communication is at the heart of language teaching, it is not consistently included in TESL/TEFL certificate programs. The presenters will guide the audience through their recent experiences incorporating critical intercultural communication in a TESL/TEFL certificate program.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Kelly Metz-Matthews

Theresa Perales

CSU Interest Section Rap Session

The CSU Interest Section invites all who are affiliated with the CSU system to discuss issues of current interest and that have been proposed by our own membership. We will also be asking attendees to provide suggestions for community engagement activities that this IS should sponsor in 2021-22.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Stefan Frazier

Equitable Syllabus: Riding the Waves of Inclusion and Diversity

Are you seeking to promote diversity, engagement and inclusion in your course? Let’s ride the waves to create an equitable syllabus together! Join our presentation to discover simple, yet powerful tools and techniques to promote equity and transform your students’ experience in your class.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Hillary Hartman

Mariana Silva

Helping Students Access and Succeed in the Online Classroom

How can we support students who are having a hard time accessing and staying motivated in the online classroom?

Participants will learn how to support students through the onboarding process, build community in their online classrooms, engage students in the course materials, and give timely and useful feedback.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Christian Alejandra Vela Che

Katrina Tamura

Kristi Reyes

International Teens Conversation Exchange: Crossing Borders and Bridging Differences

This International Teens Conversation Exchange is organized by high school teachers for intermediate students. Learn about the project, resources and outcomes. By providing opportunities for our students to talk with international peers, they challenge assumptions about other countries, learn about new perspectives, and develop interculturality.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Elena Martín Santiago

Massimo Esposito

Nayara Salbego

Ryan Detwiler

Student Voices about Online Learning

Asking for students' opinions, advice, and experiences about online learning provided a treasure trove of information for our ESL coordinating team and staff. Join our discussion as we look at our ESL students' responses to EL Civics COAAP 48.1 Task 3 and what we plan to do with this bounty.

Start

10:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Maren Anton

Paige Endo

AB705 Panel

There are a number of critical topics right now that relate to ESL in the CCCs, including AB705. This panel will provide various updates and perspectives on the AB 705 Adoption Plan, ESL assessment, ESL GE Approvals (including ESL TLC), and more!

Start

11:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Kathy Wada

Sydney Rice

Adult Ed and Achievement Gaps: What Does the Data Show?

In light of recent discussions about racial and social equity, Adult Ed schools in K-12 school districts are being asked to look at the achievement gaps within their adult student population. What data is already available to facilitate these conversations, and what new data is still needed?

Start

11:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Elza Hess

Inclusivity & Diversity in Lesson Planning

The purpose of learning a language is to USE it in a variety of social contexts. Through engaging lesson plans and exercises, we can promote responsible language usage to foster inclusion and diversity in and outside of our classrooms. Join your Level Chairs for a discussion centered on developing relevant lesson plans.

Start

11:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Fawn Supernaw

Prima Gonzalez

Navigating Transformation, Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement in Higher Ed

The College/University Level has invited two amazing speakers to talk about navigating transformation, inclusion, diversity, and engagement in the higher education setting, from the perspectives of two different universities: one public and one private.

Start

11:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Bahiyyih Hardacre

Jenifer Crawford

Using an Equity Lens to Improve Outcomes for K-16 English Learners

This session discusses a K-12 CATSOL initiatives, including an interactive three-part professional learning series explores how we can deepen our understanding of connections among identity, language, and social-emotional learning in K-16 instructional practice.

Start

11:15 AM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Erika Saito

Julie Goldman

All our Voices: Material Development for Inclusion, Diversity, and Engagement

This presentation will guide material writers wishing to empower and transform learners by providing a platform for inclusion, diversity, and engagement through the use of (1) stories giving voice to those typically unheard and (2) opportunities for change-making and leadership.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Nicole Brun-Mercer

Easy Office or Drive Projects for Language Practice

Participants will be shown projects for language practice and learning using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and their Google counterparts. Activities are adaptable for all levels. Projects serve the dual purpose of language practice and learning basic functions of common software applications.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Barry Bakin

Interactive Zoom Breakout Room Activities for Communicative Language Teaching

This session will share games and other communicative activities, such as jigsaws and information gaps, that can be used for practicing vocabulary, grammar, reading, speaking, listening, and more. Most of the lesson ideas utilize Google Drive and/or Zoom's screen sharing and annotation functions.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Savyonne Steindler

Leaders of Their Own Learning: Supporting Students With Mastery Based Grading

Looking for ways to improve equity and student support in your teaching? We are inviting educators to join us in the pursuit of equity by implementing mastery based grading. Through our models supported by mastery based grading, you will gain understanding of how to use this principle in your context as a support for student mastery.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Sara Sadeghilar

Tiffany Ingle

Teaching Workforce Skills in a Post-Pandemic World

We examine the field of workforce English and how it addresses needs in a post-pandemic environment. Attendees will walk away with a clearer understanding of the shifting needs of workplace English and become familiar with tools available to enhance student learning and opportunities to get involved in the field.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Bentley Cavazzi

Daniel Rueckert

Danielle Pelletier

Nora Mitchell

Virtual International Exchange: Learning Idioms & American Culture through Friends Episodes

Come learn about Virtual International Exchanges where you can connect with a class in another country and students can learn English collaboratively together. For our project, we used Friends Sitcoms to learn about American culture and idioms.

Start

12:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Camila Castro

Carla Stoner

Mariela Hualpa

An Inclusive Classroom Culture: Practices and Approaches

The workshop will discuss how language educators can work on creating an inclusive and equitable language classroom through the use of explicit language socialization practices. Facilitators will discuss the process of language socialization as it relates to creating an inclusive and equitable classroom, providing examples of both implicit and explicit language socialization practices. Then, participants will discuss and practice using specific activities such as class norm development, guidelines for how students should participate in partner/group work, and the use of community circle. In this way, teachers can attend to the affective, individual, and interpersonal domains of the classroom culture.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Ekaterina Moore

Kimberly Ferrario

I am “Mixed Blood” /honhyeol/ (나는 혼혈입니다)): Teaching Identity and Belongingness in a Socially Just Classroom (SJC)

This workshop provides a brief overview of how English language educators may create a Socially Just Classroom (SJC) for ESL and EFL settings. As Social Justice Educators (SJEs), language educators engage in self-reflection to gain a heightened awareness of their own implicit biases before designing social justice curriculum for minoritized communities. In a SJC, SJEs create lesson plans that effectively place their students’ funds of knowledge (Espinoza, et al., 2021) at the epicenter of the classroom. In the context of the four domains of social justice, namely Identity, Diversity, Justice, and Action (Social Justice Standards, 2018), the workshop facilitator focuses on the Identity and Diversity domains for a Korean case study. Drawing upon the facilitator’s background as a racially mixed member of the Asian, African, and Native American Diasporas, workshop participants will emerge with a lesson plan template for Identity and Diversity (Social Justice Standards, 2018).

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Nancy Kwang Johnson

Integrating Language Skills, Practices, and Content in TESOL Lesson Planning

Teachers and students in TESOL confront persistent racial, linguistic, economic, and social inequities in English language education. Many universities are striving to enact inclusive teaching that serves their diverse student body (Bensimon, 2005). This workshop offers a balanced approach that synthesizes language teaching research, theories, and practices to offer equitable strategies and tools for planning TESOL lessons and an exemplar university English as a Foreign Language lesson. These strategies, tools, and examples provide support for teachers to plan to explore inequities in the sociopolitical (Nieto, 2009) and raciolinguistic (Alim, 2016) conditions of language and language learning with their students through lessons that integrate language skills, practices, and content. Facilitators will share strategies, a lesson plan template for multiple TESOL contexts, and a lesson plan example from an adult EFL class.

Start

1:15 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Esther Gross

Jenifer Crawford

Conference Closing

Start

2:20 PM

End

11:30 PM

Speakers

Susan Gaer

No activities available

Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Dawn Bikowski

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Dawn Bikowski, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Office of Standardization and Academic Excellence at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey. She joined DLIFLC recently, coming from 20 years at Ohio University as an intensive English program instructor, Applied Linguistics graduate program faculty, developer and coordinator for the Online Ohio TESOL K-12 Endorsement, and academic and professional communication program director. She also has decades of experience as an English Language Specialist with the US State Department, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador, and has held several leadership positions and projects within TESOL, including a co-creator and instructor in the Developing an Online Teaching Program certificate program. Her research, publications, and teacher training work have taken her to many countries and focuses on language learning with technology and maximizing student engagement.

Ekaterina Moore

University of Southern California

Ekaterina Moore is an Associate Professor at Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. Her research interest is in social aspects of language learning, including classroom language socialization, heritage language learning and teaching, and classroom discourse analysis.

Emmy Min

University of Southern California

Dr. Emmy J. Min is an Associate Professor of Clinical Education at the University of Southern California's MAT-TESOL program where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Dr. Min has presented her work on teaching and assessment strategies at conferences and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals.

Esther Gross

Hebrew Union College and The Center for Educational Technology in Israel

Esther Gross, Ed.D., a visiting professor at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, serves as the Global Education Director for Hebrew Studies at The Center for Educational Technology in Israel. A Hebrew language teacher and K-12 director for two decades, Dr. Gross teaches pre- and in-service Hebrew teachers globally.

Jenifer Crawford

University of Southern California

Jenifer Crawford, Ph.D. is a Professor of Clinical Education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Crawford earned her Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA specializing in teachers’ leadership and advocacy in public schools in collaboration with linguistically and racially minoritized communities.

Kimberly Ferrario

University of Southern California

Dr. Kimberly Ferrario is a professor in the MAT-TESOL master's degree program in the Rossier School of Education at USC for 11 years, additionally has 20 years teaching experience in K-12 public schools. She brings her expertise in literacy with a special focus on critical literacy and pedagogical practices.

Nancy Kwang Johnson

University of Southern California

Nancy Kwang Johnson, MPA, PhD (Government, Cornell University) is CATESOL Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce Coordinator. Dr. Johnson, former US Senate staffer, Associate Professor, liaised with the White House on behalf of Asian American Pacific Islanders, historically Black colleges and universities, Native American tribal colleges and universities, and Hispanic-serving institutions.

Presenters

Aileen Hale

Rhoades Education Foundation

Amanda Taintor

Reedley College

Andrea Pomerinke

National University

Arusyak Sargsyan

Glendale Community College

Bahiyyih Hardacre

California State University, Los Angeles

Barry Bakin

Subject Matter Expert for OTAN (Outreach and Technical Assistance Network) and LA Unified Adult Educ

Bentley Cavazzi

Saddleback College and North Orange Continuing Education

Boniesta Melani

University of Central Florida

Camila Castro

Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina

Carla Stoner

MiraCosta College

Carol Damgen

California State University - San Bernadino

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New York Film Academy

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Defense Language Institute

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