TESOL 19 Convention - the next day

Another day at the Convention. I am so happy to be there, I have enjoyed every single moment. I encourage you all to attend next year. It will be in Denver, USA.

The book exhibit is one of the places that is always full of people. I bought a book at the TESOL bookstore. They have books online at www.tesol.org/bookstore

One of the session that I attended today was presented by Teachers from Alianza Cultural Uruguay. They took the 6 principles from TESOL and used it in their English as a Foreign Language Context for Training and Hiring Teachers in Uruguay. Training from them is available on line (silvia.laborde@alianza.edu.uy). I suggest you contact them if you are interested.Great approach and interesting idea. Teachers can adapt  the 6 principles to their own teaching setting. The 6 principles book can be bought at the TESOL online bookstore from the link above.

The other session was about Translanguaging in Early Childhoos and Elementary.  Here is the concept.

This new pedagody is a new fresh look at students in the USA classrooms.

I will blog more about this in the future. I was really surprised to know about it.
The convention continues tomorrow!

TESOL Convention 19

Yesterday the Tesol 19 Convention started! I am at the beautiful Downtown Atlanta.

 The opening note was in charge of David Harrison. It was wonderful. He has written a book: The last Speaker.

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As for today I attended several meetings.The first one was the role that as ESL or EFL teachers have but we were not trained for and still manage to do. We serve as Teacher Leader in our school, we serve as Instructional Coach sometimes by providing professional support to our peers. We also serve as an administrator in our schools. Holistic changes have to be made. There are courses in the U.S.A to train on how to fill in all these roles.

I also went to the Poster session. Several were interesting for Preschool and Elementary EFL Teachers. I took a picture of them.
One was teaching using art.

Another one was presented by a Bolivian teacher.

Holidays as a Teaching Tool presented by a Mexican Teacher.

A very important one that we as teachers have be aware of that there are students suffering from anxiety and we do not even know.

The convention is focused on the 6 principles for teaching. Interesting enough to visit the website for more detailed information.https://www.tesol.org/the-6-principles/about

The last one was about adpating materials for the classroom. Many teachers use materials mainly textbooks that are imposed by the administration in their schools and maybe they are not the best for the specific students sitting in your classroom, so what should you do.Well, adapt! 

Tomorrow is another day full of sessions!