ESL Teacher Creates Unique Instructional Guide
As an English as a Second Language ESL teacher for more than a decade, Marjorie Kramer has used dozens of ESL texts. In “Charting New Territory in ESL: What You Wish Your ESL Book Included” ISBN 1460987306, Kramer covers materials rarely addressed in other ESL books.
Kramer offers original techniques and ideas that she has used with students. The cornerstone of her teachings, her original method of “Sentence Builders,” lays out easy-to-follow rules for the correct formation of statements and questions. She includes philosophical advice on building student trust in sections such as “The Hardest Part of Teaching” and “The Art of Choosing Groups.” She also offers step-by-step instructions in areas such as “How to Teach the Alphabet,” “Teaching Pronunciation” and “The Disappearing Chart.” Including fun techniques like “Tic Tac Toe Verb Practice” and “The Alphabetizing Game” assists in further engaging students.
“I hope that ESL teachers will welcome my direct style and want to incorporate my ideas in their own classrooms,” Kramer says.
Kramer wants her work to aid teachers in streamlining, simplifying and improving the way they teach ESL. She believes that her innovative techniques and crystal-clear instructions will bring fresh enthusiasm to both teachers and students.
“Charting New Territory in ESL: What You Wish Your ESL Book Included” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other sites.
ESL teacher creates unique instructional guide.
Medtech Launches New 10-School Company
Medtech today announced the formation of a new 10-school company that is positioned to become a leading post-secondary healthcare career education provider. The schools include four current Midwestern campuses, along with three Sanz Schools in the Washington, D.C. area and three Javelin Technical Training Centers in greater Atlanta that will adopt the Medtech name.
The schools were brought together under single ownership less than a year ago. Medtech President and CEO John L. Hopkins’ mission was to create a powerful, extraordinary education company that will provide a distinctive education experience. To achieve that goal, Medtech is establishing new learning and service standards within the industry while preserving each school’s legacy and healthcare career training strengths.
“We’ve created a totally new company, from our corporate culture and philosophy to the way in which we operate, so we can deliver an extraordinary learning environment, along with personal and memorable services for our students, employers and clinical partners,” said Hopkins. “We selected the Medtech name because it speaks directly to our campuses’ healthcare expertise and is indicative of technological investments we are making within the schools to provide the most advanced resources and services to facilitate an extraordinary experience for our students.”
He added that Medtech is dedicated to creating new futures through a set of core values that enable it to “be extraordinary” and, in the process, prepare students for rewarding careers in the in-demand healthcare industry. Several campuses also will offer accredited nursing training.
The company sets itself apart from industry competitors on the basis of providing an exceptional student experience. Medtech’s educational method is distinguished by a unique employee culture that instructors and staff played a significant role in shaping; a focus on operational pre-eminence through reinvestment in campuses and the technology and tools to create environments in which students can become extraordinary; and a commitment to maintaining the highest levels of regulatory excellence.
“We are characterized by our people, culture and operational excellence – an authentic distinction that will allow us to redefine the education environment,” Hopkins said. “Medtech is moving forward in its quest to create student experiences that are beyond the predictable through our commitment to be extraordinary in everything we do.”
Medtech’s name speaks directly to each campus’ primary focus: preparing career professionals for medical-related fields in strong learning environments that are technologically oriented. It also communicates that Medtech campuses provide personalized hands-on, practical learning experiences so students are prepared to achieve all that is possible while creating new futures for themselves in healthcare.
While its main focus is on healthcare education, Medtech also recognizes the general need for English language training in many of the communities it serves. With growing numbers of students seeking English as a Second Language ESL programs to bolster their career aptitude, Medtech offers English as a supplemental program to its core medical training program for students wishing to enhance their language skills.
Students are encouraged to search out new opportunities, develop inquisitive minds, and gain the skills and professional confidence that enable them to reach their full potential. A Medtech education prepares students to establish professional goals and create new futures in existing and emerging healthcare professions.
“We offer a strong learning platform that enables graduates to realize they have extraordinary potential…and the tools to achieve it,” Hopkins noted.
Looking for a Dentist in Berryville Virginia?
November 30, 2010 by admin
Filed under Business Directory
Dentists diagnose and treat problems with teeth and tissues in the mouth, along with giving advice and administering care to help prevent future problems. They provide instruction on diet, brushing, flossing, the use of fluorides, and other aspects of dental care. They remove tooth decay, fill cavities, examine x rays, place protective plastic sealants on children’s teeth, straighten teeth, and repair fractured teeth. They also perform corrective surgery on gums and supporting bones to treat gum diseases. Dentists extract teeth and make models and measurements for dentures to replace missing teeth. They also administer anesthetics and write prescriptions for antibiotics and other medications.
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TESOL Responds to Arizona Teacher English Fluency Initiative May 2010
TESOL Responds to Arizona Teacher English Fluency Initiative
Association concerned over initiative targeting nonnative English speaking educators
Alexandria, Virginia –Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. TESOL, and its Arizona affiliate, AZ-TESOL, have issued a joint statement expressing great concern over the actions by the Arizona Department of Education targeting nonnative English speaking teachers in Arizona schools. According to recent media reports, the Arizona Department of Education has mandated that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English.
As a global education association, TESOL values individual language rights, respect for diversity and multiculturalism, and professionalism in language education. TESOL Executive Director Rosa Aronson states:
“TESOL has long opposed discrimination against nonnative English speakers in the field of English language teaching. Nonnative English-speaking educators should not be singled out because of their native language, nor evaluated based on arbitrary standards of language fluency. All educators should be evaluated in a transparent manner along the same criteria based on clearly articulated and valid standards.”
The joint statement goes on to address the undertones upon which this particular initiative unfolds: “With the other recent legislative initiatives in Arizona targeting undocumented immigrants and ethnic students, TESOL is deeply troubled by what appears to be an environment of fear and xenophobia being fostered by lawmakers in the state without consideration of the consequences upon student learning and achievement.”
TESOL Responds to Arizona Teacher English Fluency Initiative May 2010.
Employment Opportunity: The Inter-American Magnet School
The Inter-American Magnet School is a school that promotes academic excellence through dual language and multicultural education. Students attain proficiency levels in Spanish and English that enable them to participate in communicative, academic and workplace contexts in their school level Pre-K through 8.
Position: Bilingual Education Teacher (4th Grade)
Duties/Responsibilities:
Fully implement the components of dual language instruction across all academic areas. Thematic units for literacy, social studies, science and math are developed by grade level and guided by essential questions.
Define enduring concepts (big ideas) and measurable outcomes (performance descriptors) for each curriculum area in each unit that are shared with students/parents at the beginning of the unit and used to guide daily lesson planning.
Actively support the evaluation plan across all academic areas including formative and summative evaluation to monitor student progress and to assure maximum student progress.
Collaboration and planning with grade level teachers to develop units and weekly/daily lesson plans that are turned in each week. Ensure that individual student needs (ELL, SSL, Special Education) are addressed within daily instructional planning and evaluation.
Plan grade level curriculum units and weekly lesson plan for uniform instruction in grade level and across grade levels with grade level team. Actively participate in ongoing action research with grade level to inform instruction for maximizing student progress and for program improvement. Take leadership role in work groups and committees in the collective work to make this special school work.
Requirement:
Must have very strong language skills in Spanish and English.
Certification in Elementary Education and ESL endorsement is mandatory.
Certification in Bilingual/Bicultural Education is preferred.
Qualified Applicants Contact:
Inter-American Magnet School – Unit #4890
851 Waveland, Chicago, IL 60613 (or GSR #33)
Telephone: (773)534-5490 ext. 18067
Fax: (773)534-5483 (please do not fax resume, hand deliver or mail resumé)
Submit to: Principal, Dr. Vernita Vallez
Applicants who are new to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) must also complete the online CPS application.
College of DuPage’s ESL cuts rile teachers
Cuts to the English as a Second Language program at College of DuPage have some people worried about its future.
College officials are cutting 36 ESL classes for the upcoming spring semester and requiring that each class has 21 registered students in an effort close a program budget shortfall that has cost COD $4 million during the past five years.
Daily Herald | College of DuPage’s ESL changes riles teachers.
Esl Teaching is the New Career for Stay Home Moms
Teaching English as a Secondary Language ESL online has proven to be one the fastest-growing online jobs nowadays. More foreigners are recognizing the benefits of being fluent in English, and the target market is no longer concentrated only on students, but on business professionals as well. Besides that, people find that ESL teaching doesn’t just pay well; it also meets the needs of individuals who find it more comfortable working at home.
Read full article via Literacy News.
CDC Volunteers Help Farmworkers
Ana Alfaro-Correa, center, has volunteered nearly each summer in the last decade as an interpreter for the Emory University farmworker assistance program.
For almost 10 years in a row, Ana Alfaro-Correa has spent her summer vacation in the hot, gnatty, mosquito-prone fields of south Georgia helping migrant farmworkers receive high-quality health care.
Alfaro-Correa, a public health analyst in the Division of Diabetes Translation, is among several CDC employees who volunteer with the South Georgia Farmworker Health Project as Spanish and Haitian-Creole interpreters. They join a team of Emory University Physician Assistant Program students, medical students, PA and medical faculty members and other volunteers to provide free basic health care to 1,400 to 1,600 migrant and seasonal farmworkers in migrant camps, packing sheds and other nontraditional clinical settings.
Collaboration with Emory University
The project is a collaborative effort of the Emory University Physician Assistant Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center and community partners in Valdosta and Bainbridge. The team sees farmworkers from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Jamaica.
“We get a fair number of workers who say they have never seen a healthcare provider, or it’s been years,” reports Tom Himelick, director of community projects for Emory’s Physician Assistant Program. The team diagnoses and treats everything from hypertension to headaches, diabetes to respiratory infections, and athlete’s foot to eye problems.
Tom Himelick, Susy Mercado, Rebeca Lee-Pethel, Raquel Sabogal, and Tiffanee Woodard
Tom Himelick, Susy Mercado, Rebeca Lee-Pethel, Raquel Sabogal, and Tiffanee Woodard devote time to the South Georgia Farmworker Health Project.
He says most ailments are minor, but sometimes the South Georgia Farmworker Health Project can save lives. As an example, a student recognized that a young farmworker was having a heart attack and convinced him to go to the hospital, where the event was confirmed.
Interpreter brings health messages
CDC public health analyst Rebeca Lee-Pethel of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, who has volunteered as an interpreter with the project for 10 years, observes, “We have the opportunity to help folks who often have limited or no other access to health care. This is a good place to provide public health messages.
“These folks live with such hardship that it seems so little to give time to help.”
David Ojeda, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow in the Division of Diabetes Translation, agrees. His first summer as a volunteer Spanish interpreter in Valdosta was eye-opening because of the working and living conditions he observed. The experience in June strengthened his desire to help underserved populations, especially in rural areas.
The chance to help improve the lives of individuals also appealed to interpreter Tiffanee Woodard, public health analyst in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. “Furthermore, each act of service will result in some degree of benefit to the entire community,” the CDC volunteer notes. “The South Georgia Farmworker Health Project supports communities in need, provides a model for collaboration, and enhances personal and professional interests. This project will present lifelong rewards to all involved.”
Volunteers reap rewards
Susy Mercado, Gena Gause, and farmworkers
Susy Mercado left and Gena Gause, right second-year Emory physician assistant student, work with farmworkers.
For Raquel Sabogal, an epidemiologist in the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services and the daughter of two Colombian natives, the rewards include keeping up her Spanish skills while helping farm workers live healthier lives. A South Georgia Farmworker Health Project volunteer since 2000, she has improved her Spanish medical terminology to help the Emory students conduct health exams.
As an incentive to undergo basic medical exams, the migrant workers are offered used clothing. Susy Mercado, audiovisual production specialist in the Division of Creative Services, collected clothing donations from her CDC colleagues this year to take to farmworkers in South Georgia when she interprets for them in Spanish. Mercado, whose mother is Cuban, spent part of her childhood in Peru and is active in the Atlanta Latino community. “I enjoy helping the Latin community. I like helping people find solutions to their problems,” she says.
For more information about the South Georgia Farmworker Health Project.
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Latino teens happier, healthier if families embrace biculturalism
Parents of adolescents know that it can be challenging to make sure their teens are making healthy choices. Latino parents who have immigrated to the United States face an additional and unique challenge: raising adolescents in a new country and culture.
Latino teens face challenges too. Adolescents who are trying to adjust to life in the U.S. themselves, or who are first-generation U.S. citizens with parents of a different culture, can be at greater risk for health problems and risky behavior associated with acculturation. Acculturation is defined as how much and how quickly a person adjusts to a new
culture.
A study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, shows that Latino adolescents in the U.S. who maintain ties to their culture of origin are
more likely to develop healthy behaviors than their peers who do not. Latino adolescents with strong awareness of their family’s culture reported higher self esteem, fewer social problems and less hopelessness, aggression and substance abuse.
“Teens adjusting to a new culture can encounter stressful situations like racial discrimination,” said CDC scientist Corinne Ferdon. “These situations are associated with adolescents engaging in risky behavior such as youth violence and substance abuse.” The good news is that there are steps you can take as a parent with your teen to overcome these health risks. As a Latino parent who has immigrated to the U.S., you can honor your culture of origin and also weave in parts of the U.S. culture to help your teen adjust and live a healthy, balanced life. Your teen will not have to choose between their heritage and the American culture; you can help them be proud of both.
Here are some steps Latino parents can take to help keep teens stay safe and healthy:
1. Find the balance. Work to help your child understand which parts of the U.S. culture are helpful, and which parts conflict with your personal family values to help adolescents make healthy decisions.
2. Make time for family. Work schedules and a lack of extended family support often make family time difficult. It’s very important that you spend time together as a family during times of cultural adjustment. Take a walk, eat meals
together, or engage in other activities your whole family enjoys.
3. Talk to your children. Talk with your adolescent children as you are getting used to life in the United States, and communicate about making good choices about their health and safety.
4. Listen to your children. When differences of opinion arise, try to listen and be flexible enough to hear what your teen is saying about how things are done in this new culture and about how they may be struggling or thriving.
For more information:
Call 1-800-CDC-INFO or visit
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyYouth/az/
Summer School Gives Esl Students Jump Start
August 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under ESL Classes, ESL News
When Jeannette Sgambellone found out there was money available for Lakewood Schools to hold an ESL summer school session for the first time, she and her fellow district English as a Second Language teachers rallied into action.
Because the district didn’t know for sure that federal Title 1 funds were available for the program until after school let out in June, the teachers had to go the extra mile to notify families of the opportunity.