SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| Room/ Capacity |
Keynote Address8:30-9:30 | Session 1 (9:40-10:30) | Session 2 (10:40-11:00) (Short sessions) | Session 3 (11:10-12:00) | Lunch | Session 4 (1:35-2:25) | Session 5 (2:35-3:25) |
| Think 5 | Multisensory Reading and Writing: An Instructional Framework – A/E -Kristin Perry | Guided Reading: A Gateway to Improving ESL Students Literacy Skills – A/C – Lin Niu | Middle School & Secondary IS Meeting | Academic Language Demonstration – E/M – Ann Mabbott | Teach English Abroad as an English Language Fellow – C/A – Brian Skelton | ||
| Think 4 | The 2013 Minnesota Legislature and its Impact on English Learner Teachers and Students -E/TE – Jan Alswager | Save Our School: Improving Math Mastery for Public School ELLs – E/T – Rebecca Konz | Elementary IS Meeting | Social Justice Themes: Helping ELL Students See the Big Picture – S/C – Debbie Hadas, Steven Lonning | Progress-Monitoring for EL Success – E/M – Rita Platt | ||
| Think 3 | Sentence Frames from Two Perspectives – S/M – Laura Byard, Ina Ziegler | Reading Music Videos: Intertextual Themes in the L2 Classroom – C/S – Lara Olson | College IS Meeting | How to teach your first online class – TE/C – John Madden | Letting Go: into the classroom and away from old habits – E/TE – Jackie Smith | ||
| Think 2 | Pre-academic Summer Transition Programs: Lessons Learned and Best Practices – C/A – Nancy Pederson, Pilar Eble, Leslie Gubash | Acquiring Diverse Voices: Improving Pronunciation through Mirroring & Acting-C/S- Kate Clements | How Music Advances Second Language Learning – E/TE – Annette Gagliardi, Ron Gustafson | Let’s Reunite: The Power of Poetry for Somali Newcomers – M/S – Mary Beth Groff, Cecelia Maria Laden, Abdullahi Abshir | |||
| Think 1 | What’s the Best Approach to Teaching EAP? – C/S – Mike Bennett | Reflective Tutoring Support for L2 Writers – C/S – Dale Lemke, Josiah Enns, Ying Wei Fu, Rachel Kieffer, Molly Vang, Peter Yang | Adult IS Meeting | Using Collaborative Online Media to Increase Student Agency and Community – C/A – Justin Haring | Second Language Learners-The Value in Voiced Text – E/TE – Denise Serna | ||
| Inventor 1 | Students with Limited/Interrupted Formal Schooling: What does the literature say? – S – Sarah Schmidt de Carranza | Are ELLs wasting time or learning anything while using computers? – E/TE – Ho Ryong Park | Teacher Ed l IS Meeting | Pragmatics-based lessons for low-level adult ELLs – A/S – Rhonda Petree | Introduction to Google Apps in (ESL) Education – S/E – Elizabeth Dillard, Miranda L. Schornack | ||
| Inventor 2 | Science, Social Studies & Literacy: A successful Connection – E/M – Linda Linnen | Conversation Circles: Letting Students’ Voices Emerge – A/C – Erin Evans | Building Academic Literacy for the transitions to college success – C/S – Robin Murie | Proficiency: A Diverse and Dynamic Construct – C/A – Michael Schwartz | |||
| Inventor 3 | Pocket Full of Learning: Cell Phones in the Adult Classroom – A/C – Burgen Young | Pre-teaching Vocabulary: Tips and Tools – C/S – Linda Green | Fostering Critical Thinking and Language Skills through Art – A/C – Carstens Smith, Suzanne Donsky | Digging into the meaning of complex texts with grammar tools – A/C – Bonnie Swierzbin | |||
| Pathways | What have we learned from the first year of WIDA implementation? – E – Jennifer Leazer | ELD Stages of Implementation – E/TE – Ruslana Westerlund | A Teacher Educator’s View of Teaching and Learning in Vietnam – TE/A – Betsy Parrish | ||||
| Pinnacle Ballroom | Keynote follow-up |
