2010 AMTESOL Conference

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Bonny Norton

Dr. Bonny Norton is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.  Her award-winning research addresses identity, language learning, critical literacy, and international development.  Her website can be found at http://lerc.educ.ubc.ca/fac/norton .

 

Pre-Conference Workshops

Friday, 9:00AM-12:30PM

 Stories to Learn From with Diane Carter

Participants learn how ESL teachers can use this project to help students learn new vocabulary and improve their writing, reading, speaking and listening skills while sharing their cultures. Teachers learn how to engage students in interviewing, writing stories, sculpting, painting, videotaping or photography, and planning a final event.   

 

Diane Carter 

Diane Carter teaches ESL at two high schools for Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis, IN, USA.  She has worked with ESL students in K-12 for over 20 years.  Additionally, she authored and taught a speech class for international students at the university level, taught and supervised an adult ESL program for learners in the workplace, taught ESL composition, listening, speaking, and reading comprehension on the university level, taught an ESL methods class for undergrad and grad students, and is a part-time lecturer of technical communication in courses that include many international students for the School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis.  Diane is the Convention Program Chairperson for TESOL 2010 in Boston, was the Associate-Chair for TESOL 2007 and served as team leader for Protocol and Job Marketplace for TESOL’s annual conventions for five years.  She is particularly proud of her many high school students who graduated with honors and are going on to be successful at the university level.  She enjoys putting on workshops for teachers modeling inter-active strategies and making desserts, fruit liqueurs and chocolates.

 

Strategies for Effective Interaction in the Classroom with Susan Spezzini

Participants experience interactive peer-to-peer oral techniques (IPOTs) that promote comprehensible output among ELLs of all ages. Such IPOTs include gap-filling tango, turn & tell, discovery channel, carousel charts, concentric circles, parallel lines, roaming reporters, and hot onion review.

Susan Spezzini