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Schedule

8:30 – 9 a.m.  Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:20 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

Oneyda Paneque and Teresa Lucas, BAF and MDTESOL presidents

Joanne Urrutia, Director of Bilingual Education and World Languages M-DCPS

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.   Concurrent Sessions

Implementation of Bilingual Programs in Elementary Schools

Elvia Hernandez, MDCPS, FIU

This presentation follows the development of bilingual programs in elementary schools, and the controversies revolving around such progams.

Service Learning and the ESL Student

Nora Dawkins and Harold Silva, MDC

This presentation discusses ESL students’ participation in Service Learning projects and activities facilitated by the Center for Community Involvement at MDC North Campus.  Suggestions for implementing and participating in various projects throughout the county will be shared with the audience. 

Decisions in the Language Classroom

Alejandro Martinez, chemas-microsoft-com:officemarttags" />t="on">t="on">Mater t="on">Academy / FIU

What decisions do ESOL teachers delivering Social Studies instruction make while they teach? What effect does the pre-service teacher training have on the ability to decide in the classroom?

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Keynote Session

Great 21^st Century ESOL Teachers: Their Principles, Qualities and Problems

Irene Schoenberg, International Language Institute, t="on">t="on">Hunter t="on">College

11:40 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.  Networking Luncheon

Announcement of Cheryl Benz Outstanding Professional Award

12:45 – 2:30 p.m. Workshop

Five Strategies for Success in Oral Skills Classes

Irene Schoenberg, International Language Institute, t="on">t="on">Hunter t="on">College

2:45 – 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

High-Stakes Testing: Sailing into a “Perfect Storm”?

Olena Drozd, t="on">t="on">Barry t="on">University

High-stakes testing has negative effects on English language learners (ELLs) and widen the achievement gap, deepening inequality by forcing ELLs to cease the use of their first language and narrowing the curriculum

A Sequenced Set of Assignments: Class Project

t="on">t="on">Lourdes Albo-Puentes, MDC

This presentation illustrates a sequenced set of assignments to relate the students’ writing tasks to their field-specific subject.  The assignments are part of a   class project of a comprehensive content-task-based language course.

Content-based, Corpus-informed English for Academic Purposes

Michelle Thomas and Kelly Hernandez, MDC

I.                   This session presents research on language use in four high frequency general education courses: biology, psychology, freshman composition, and humanities. Participants will learn about a localized corpus collection process, key findings from a community college corpus sample, applications to materials and curriculum development and strategies for faculty development.

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks

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