CALPRO is offering THREE amazing courses for free and online! Take this opportunity to further develop your teaching skills and be the best in the field. Space is limited so hurry and sign up ASAP. Click on each course title to see the descriptions of the course and information on how to register.
July 15 - Managing the ESL Multilevel Class
July 15 - Understanding the Adult Learner, Session 1
July 24 - Organizing and Monitoring Instruction to Improve Learning Gains
Monday, July 6, 2009
Free Online Courses (July 2009)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Budget Crisis - Back and Bigger Than Ever
Well, we all know it. We're reading the headlines:
Possible huge cuts to education, health care, state parks and a lot more.
Use this wiki page to find original articles on the news and learn more.
Now is the time to mobilize.
Write or call your representatives.
Tell your friends and family to write and call their representatives.
Tell your students about the situation and encourage them to write and call, as well.
(There will be a post on the student blog giving them basic info about this.)
If you would like information on what the Teacher's Union is doing about this, talk to Union President Lisa Sparks.
Find your California Representatives (for anyone in the state of CA):
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
Enter your zip code, click on your legislator and it will link to the members home page with email contact information.
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Senator Leland Yee
400 South El Camino Real, Suite 630
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: 650 – 340 – 8840
Assemblymember Jerry Hill
1528 South El Camino Real, Suite 302
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: 650 – 341 – 4676
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Listen and Learn
There are lots of new goodies out there to help your student improve their listening skills. Check out:
1. www.eslpod.com Free ESL listening lessons. Students can listen to them on the computer or download onto an MP3 player. Students can also subscribe to them - for free - via iTunes.
2. http://storynory.com Stories for kids - also appropriate for higher level ESL. Again - all free. Listen or download, subscribe via iTunes.
3. www.podomatic.com Make your own podcasts for your students to listen to. Students can listen via a computer or download onto an MP3 player. Set up your account so that it is password protected (limited to your students, for example) or open to the public. All free.
See James for help with any of these.
See young people walking around with little white cords coming out of their ears for proof that this form of technology - MP3 players and podcasting - is here to stay
(at least until the next form comes along!).
Oh - and if you have any grammar questions, check out:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Welcome to Google Lit Trips!
A Different Way to Read Great Literature!This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
| Title: | Google Lit Trips |
| Date(s): | Jun 15, 2009 - Jun 16, 2009 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm |
| Audience: | 4th – 12th grade Language Arts Teachers |
| Facilitator(s): | Sandra Somera |
| Included: | breakfast & lunch |
| Price: | There are no fees associated with this event. |
| Location: | San Mateo County Office of Education 101 Twin Dolphin Dr. Redwood City, CA 94065-1064 Map | Driving Directions Note: Pine, Oak & Laurel Rooms Maps and Directions |
| Contact: | Christine Joy cjoy@smcoe.k12.ca.us P: (650) 802-5337 |
Register Online Here
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
San Mateo County Trying to Recoup Lehman Bros. Loss
Remember this?
San Mateo County Office of Education State of Profit/Loss Statement.
Which was followed by this?
Late 2000s Recession.
Well, now we have this
"San Mateo County Takes Lehman Loss to Congress" (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/5/09)
Let's hope they succeed!
To their credit, our local representatives Speier, Eschoo, and Feinstein have been working on our behalf.
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