Welcome to the Penn TESOL East Adult Education Interest section.
I am pleased to be your new Adult Interest Section Chair. Events for this interest section will be posted here. Please feel free to e-mail me suggestions for discussions, presentations or workshops. I look forward to serving you.
Donna Mehalchick-Opal
Adult Education Interest Section Chair
donnaopal@hotmail.com
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Scheduled Events
EVENT: IS Meeting
Theme: Networking in Adult ESL
Day: Friday, May 11th
Time: 5:00 PM
Place: COSI 325 Chestnut Street
All IS members are invited to attend. You may bring non-members as well. Please email donnaopal@hotmail.com if you plan to attend.
We will share networking and job search strategies.
PAST EVENTS
On May 10th & 11th of 2011 Members of the Adult IS traveled to ETS in New Jersey to participate in the TOEIC Listening and Reading and TOEIC Speaking and Writing Propel Workshops. Both workshops were a great success. I happy to meet many of you for the first time and hope that everyone learned something to bring back to their classroom.
Rarely held Propell (tm) workshops have been scheduled for May 10 and 11, 2011, on the Educational Testing Service (ETS) campus in Princeton, NJ. These workshops offer an opportunity for a quick gain of expertise in what may be a new area for some corporate trainers, but which is increasingly valuable in today's global market place--how to build and assess the English language skills specifically needed in business/workplace environments.
These one-day workshops examine the use of the TOEIC Listening & Reading and TOEIC Speaking & Writing tests, the world's leading assessment of real world English skills for business and the workplace, taken by over 6 million individuals each year and used by over 10,000 employers and other institutions. You will gain skills in preparing individuals for these tests, administering and interpreting them, and improving language learning for real world business environments with new instructional tools and strategies.
Enrollment will be limited to fifteen trainers, consultants, and English language professionals in order to allow sharing of ideas and interactive work with ETS expert trainers. Attendees return home with an in-depth workshop manual; TOEIC score descriptors for easily assessing skills at different levels; activity books, practice test books, and audio CDs for use with trainees; and certificates of workshop completion as well as new ideas to develop practical English skills.
The first workshop will focus primarily on means of improving student listening and reading skills, the second on speaking and writing skills. You can choose to attend one or both workshops.
Tuition, materials, and some meals are provided without cost.
Adult Education Links
New Pennsylvania ESL Adult Educator blogspot:
http://www.paesl.blogspot.com
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA)
http://www.cal.org/caela/
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
http://www.ncsall.net
Center for Applied Linguistics
http://www.cal.org/
National Institute for Literacy - LINCS Adult ESL Special Collection
http://www.literacynet.org/esl/
TESOL’s Adult Education Interest Section
http://www.smace.org/tesol/links/links.html
Health Literacy Resources & Programs for Adult ESL
http://www.cal.org/caela/healthbibres.htm
Adult ESL Practice in the New Millennium
http://www.cal.org/caela/millennium.htm
Teaching Multilevel Adult ESL Classes
http://www.cal.org/caela/digests/SHANK.HTM
U.S. Department of Education – Office of Vocational and Adult Education
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd/index.html
National Coalition for Literacy
http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/litfacts.html
Dave’s ESL Café Teachers Discussion Forum for Adult Education
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=2b86d3325a9aeeabaefd6530fecd7c6a
Michigan Adult Learning & Technology Center
http://www.malt.cmich.edu/
Annotated Bibliography of Content Standards for Adult ESL
http://www.cal.org/caela/constanbib.htm
Adult ESL Instruction: Some Suggested Materials
http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/pdfs/adult-esl-bib.pdf
Breaking News English - Articles with lessons
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/