PPT-CASAS Guide for Adult ESL Teachers

A Resource Guide for New and Experienced Adult ESL Teachers Teacher Training Module 2016 Agenda Welcome and Introductions Introduction to CASAS Presentation of Guide Components Practice Activity. Reading Sample Test Items. Level B. What do you do first?. A. call in. C. sit down. B. sign in . D. say your name. Practice 1. 2. © CASAS All rights reserved. . Reading Level B Sample Test Items www.casas.org . University of Sydney. 4 November 2013. ESL Students. Come from diverse cultural, social and language backgrounds. Most high achieving students are highly educated in their first language and are transferring skills and knowledge. They are used to problem solving and thinking conceptually. They transfer and translate using dictionaries for years!!. by Travis Washmon. What’s First?. The curriculum will be useless without a properly functioning team of interdisciplinary teachers at each grade level.. The EL Schools Professional Development Course is perfect for team building while also preparing teachers for teaching in an Expeditionary Learning class.. Innovation and Value in Basic Skills and ESL: Got Noncredit?. Host: Wheeler North, Basic Skills/Noncredit Committee Chair. Karen . Dennis, Santa Ana College. Janet Fulks, Noncredit Ad Hoc Task Force. Update. Linda Taylor. , CASAS. Veronica Pavon-baker, CASAS State and . National . Trainer. Claire Valier, CASAS State and National Trainer. Phil Anderson, Florida Dept. of Education, State Trainer. a public library program for . Henrico County’s immigrant community. Steven . Carter-Lovejoy and Kate . McClory. Henrico County Public Library. Purpose. Henrico County has . many foreign . born, non-native English speakers moving into the . Tools for Building Opportunities. HACC Presenters: Crystal Rayzer, Director of Adult Ed. Pathways Department. Melinda Fraker de Fonte, Language Institute Instructional Program Coordinator, Adult Ed. Pathways Department . 2013. Dr. Mary Benedetti. Director. ESL @ UC. Center for ESL (CESL) . Serves students who have been admitted into academic programs (and part-time nonmatriculated students);. All courses carry university credit (3 credits pr course); in A&S and CoB, they count as FL credit or free electives;. 1474 (or 1484) – 1566. Background, Qualifications, Credibility. Perhaps uniquely qualified and positioned to understand and speak from an informed and educated position to the general condition of indigenous . New Reading GOALS. Listening Tests. Why test listening skills?. . Listening Tests. CASAS . Listening Tests . Form Numbers by Level. Level A Tests 981/982. Level B Tests . 983/984 . Level C Tests . Anthony Tyrrell Eric Beecher . Rady. . Sharkova. -Foster. Where is your ESL Program in terms of its life cycle? . Start Up. Improve. Growth. Reinvent. Mature. What number of ESL students are served?. Howell Township. Options for Discussion. ACCESS for ELLs 2.0 Summative Assessment. Serves as one of multiple measures we use to determine whether students are prepared to exit the ESL Program. . Provides information that assists in determining if ELLs have attained the language proficiency needed to participate meaningfully in content area classrooms without program support.. Bartolomé de las Casas 1474 (or 1484) – 1566 Background, Qualifications, Credibility Perhaps uniquely qualified and positioned to understand and speak from an informed and educated position to the general condition of indigenous Part 1: An introduction. By: Natalie Dunaway, CE Coordinator, MLC. English as a Second Language. May also see EFL= English as a Foreign Language. ELL- English Language Learner. TEFL/TESL/TESOL= Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching English as a Second Language/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.