BOSTON 2015 C1 CELTA JANUARY 5 - JANUARY 30

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Comment by Matthew Noble on March 12, 2015 at 11:39am

Hello CELTA grads,

If you're NOT coming to the mini-conference at Teaching House Boston this Saturday (why in the world not?!?! ;) there IS still a nice ELT-event you could 'attend' online at 3pm on Saturday. Just FYI, see details below:

Jamie Keddie - 'Storytelling in the classroom'

It is often teachers of young learners who are the quickest to embrace teacher-led storytelling as a way of engaging students and structuring sessions. But we are considering a classroom art which is far too valuable and versatile to be associated exclusively with one group alone. In this practical webinar, we will look at ways in which a short narrative can be used to generate a whole-class dialogue with language learning opportunities along the way.

Jamie Keddie is a teacher, trainer, writer and storyteller. He is the founder of Lessonstream.org and the winner of a British Council ELTons award. His publications include 'Images' (OUP, 2009) and 'Bringing Online Video into the Classroom' (OUP, 2014). He is also the author of Videotelling, a self-published ebook

You can enter the webinar at this link: http://www.iatefl.org/web-events/webinars (find 'Join this webinar here')

Jamie Keddie is awesome, so don't miss it! ;)

Comment by Matthew Noble on March 9, 2015 at 3:54pm

Local ESOL p/t job, FYI:

Asian American Civic Association

Part-Time Temporary ESOL Teacher – Job Description

Teaching

§ Teach one 2-hour class, Tuesdays through Fridays, 8:30 – 10:30 AM, for immigrant adults. There are four 12-week cycles per year (classes are held 48 weeks per year). Position to begin April 7, 2015. This is Level 3 of a 5-level basic ESOL program. After level 5, students may go on to a college transitions intermediate ESOL program.

§ Contribute to ongoing curriculum development at appropriate level.

§ Survey students’ expectation/goals at the beginning of each new cycle and develop appropriate curriculum.

§ Administer regular, ongoing in-class assessments, including (but not limited to) a mid-term exam and final exam.

§ Make teacher’s/program’s expectations clear to students at the beginning of each new cycle.

§ Communicate classroom/student issues to Program Manager in a timely manner.

§ Help students understand the agency’s educational pathway as well another services available to them at agency’s Multi-Service Center.

Administration

§ Keep daily student attendance records.

§ Maintain up-to-date student information (dropout, completion, etc.) in agency database each month.

§ Attend regular team meetings and monthly all-staff meetings (held on Mondays).

§ Prepare certificates at the end of cycle for all students completing your class.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in education, TESOL, applied linguistics or related field strongly preferred. Recent college graduates with M.A. or B.A. encouraged to apply.
Teaching or tutoring experience with immigrant adult learners required.
Native speaker of English strongly preferred. Fluency in Chinese is a plus, but not required.

Salary range: $18/hour (for 8 hours teaching and 4 hours prep per week, plus an additional 2 hours per MONTH for meetings and assessments—all paid time).

No benefits.

To apply, send resume and cover letter by 3/20/15 to:

HR Department

Asian American Civic Association

87 Tyler Street, 5th floor

Boston, MA 02111

Email: hr@aaca-boston.org

Comment by Matthew Noble on March 6, 2015 at 1:31pm

That sounds great Kristyn. Let us know how it's going at some point down the road! :)

Comment by Kristyn Cain on March 6, 2015 at 1:24pm

Hello Matt! I hope all is well. Things are going great for me. I am finishing up an online training session to teach with Berlitz School of Languages (have you heard of it?). They use to have a center near where I live but not anymore, so I will basically be tutoring until they recruit more students. I will have one student starting in 2 weeks through Berlitz but I will also be teaching another student privately this month as well! A friend of a friend told me they were looking for an ESL teacher so that's awesome! My students are from Brazil and Japan. I'm very excited! I hope all is going well up in Boston! :)

Comment by Matthew Noble on March 4, 2015 at 7:36am

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well...any updates for us here in Boston?

I've produced a short survey for CELTA people & ELTers about Task Feedback in lessons: http://goo.gl/forms/fqElr5qStP If you can, please take a few minutes to respond and help inform small presentation at our upcoming mini-conference in Boston! (http://on.fb.me/1FVKR5Y)

Cheers!

Matthew

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 28, 2015 at 10:49am

Ok Tom - we'll see you tomorrow.

Comment by Tom Hudson on January 28, 2015 at 9:54am

Matt, I won't be in today. I have a snow related problem....getting a son to work in Foxbourgh. I am planning to be there Thurs and Friday, but as we discussed, just to observe. Stay safe.

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 28, 2015 at 8:42am

I got your message Jordan; see you when you get in and travel safe. (I'm just crossing the river on the red line myself).

Comment by Matthew Noble on January 28, 2015 at 8:11am

I may be 10-15 minutes late. Use the extra time for lesson prep etc., and we will just have slightly truncated input sessions (and GLP/prep time as usual in between). 1st session is testing and assessment. Second is a grammar awareness session.

Comment by Tom Hudson on January 27, 2015 at 8:05pm

Should have added, I don't know what "oxens that sacrifice themselves" means. It's OK. He's my grandson, so I don't have to understand his whole lesson :-)

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