Schedule at a Glance

Thursday, May 31

[Featured Speakers are highlighted in yellow]

7:30 registration opens

  8:30-

10:00

plenary       Dr. June Atkinson

Room 1A/B       Mr. Axel Lluch

10:00-

10:15

break and time with exhibitors    Room 1 C/D
Room 1A/B Room 5 Room 6 Room 7A Room 7B Room 8A Room 8B Room 9
 10:15-
11:05

Gibson

Managing Whole Class and Small Group Instruction

Mann-Thrower & Rolston

Get Your Hands On SIOP

Adelson-Goldstein

Mastering the Magic and Madness of the Multilevel Classroom

Smith

Reinforcing and Assessing Literacy Skills with "Out-the-Door" Activities

Kern,  Chavez, White, & Gamble

Collaborative Teaching--Models of Inclusion

Fichter, Fahle, West, & Cernik

How to Survive the National Board Process

Rangel

Latino Parent Educational Training

Swisher

Integrating Technology Tools into the ESL Curriculum

 11:10-

12:00

Villafuerte

Strategies for Identifying and Differentiating Instruction for Gifted ESL Students at the Elementary Level

Reece

Conversational Ballgames—Why your Students Converse Awkwardly—  and Some Solutions

Despain

Hybrid Courses: The Hows and Whys,  the Ups and Downs

12:00-

1:00
Buffet Lunch, Area 2

  1:00-

1:50

 Gibson

Differentiated Instruction:  Grouping for Success

Marino & Harrell

State ESL Update

Kauffman
Tools for Teaching Academic Content

Gomez

Strategies to Help ESL Students Participate in the Mainstream Classroom

McLaughlin

What are the Essential Elements for Providing Services to LEP Students? - an Overview

Cowper

“The Land of Osbasdo

Fahle, West & Stallworth

Schedules and Teachers and Credits, Oh My!!!!!

Fichter & Pinkney

Integrating Social Studies into the ESL Classroom

 2:00-

3:30

plenary (Room 1A/B     Dr. Virginia Collier     Room 1 A/B

3:30-

3:45
break and time with exhibitors    Room 1 C/D

3:45-

5:00

 Collier interactive session

 

Adelson-Goldstein

Picturing Success in the Multilevel Classroom

Hill

A Crash Course in ESL

Bowling

Making Television in the ESL Classroom

Reece

The Oral Proficiency Rating  FSI: The Basics of Oral Testing

Belletti

Effective Assistance for ESL Students: The Students' Perspective

 

Friday, June 1

8:00 registration opens

  8:30-

9:15

plenary       Dr. Henry Johnson   Room 1 A/B

  9:15-

10:00

plenary       Mr. Alan Muriera   Room 1 A/B

 10:00-

10:15

break and time with exhibitors    Room 1 C/D
Room 1A/B
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7A
Room 7B
Room 8A
Room 8B
Room 9

 10:15-

11:05

Reece

Top-Down/ Bottom Up Pronunciation. It's not All in Single Sounds  but in Sound Units  Too.

Wolford

Literacy Research among Latino Children

Walker

Learner Corpora--Fancy Name,  Simple Concept,  Useful Tool

Rolston

SIOP Implementation— Ideas for Program Design

Rayasam

Parent Involvement--Bridging the Cultural Gap

Thompson

Language to Literacy—a Demonstration of Oral to Written Language Connections

Baggott, Richer, Sinclair, Guy & Hoffman

Eliciting Student Stories

Heacock

The Teacher-Technology Interface

 11:10-12:00

Muriera

Gangs--Are They Giving Our Youth What They Need?

Gomez, Blomgren, Zuluaga-Urrea,
 Christian & Wimmer

Best Practices for Teaching Limited English Proficient Students

Darhower

Dynamic Assessment in the Chat Room Context
 12:00-1:00
plenary       Dr. Walt Wolfram     Room 1 A/B
1:00 - official end of Symposium

 2:15-

4:15

ticketed events

post-conference workshops

Thompson: Winning Ways with Words:
What You  Need to Know about Interactive Vocabulary
  Room 6

Heacock: Using the Internet in the ESL Classroom  Room 5