CATESOL Board of Directors
All
5:00-6:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Ballroom C

At this meeting, reports will be given by 2007-08 board members detailing what they have accomplished in the past year, service awards and certificates will be presented, and newly elected board members for the year 2007-08 will be installed. ALL CATESOL members are welcome to attend.

CATESOL Members
4:30-5:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Ballroom C

Come meet and greet CATESOL Board Members and share in an open forum to discuss matters of importance to CATESOL Members. This is your opportunity as a member to meet and talk with the CATESOL leadership and to learn how to become involved with the organization. Light refreshments provided.

Kevin Donnelly, TELL ME MORE® by Auralog    
All    
8:00 -8:45 am    
Hyatt Regency B    
 

Is technology your teaching partner? Discover and practice ways to utilize technology in everyday language learning from the innovators at Auralog. See how to put technology to work for you and your students – it’s easy.

Jeff Mattison - Jennifer Uhler, La Paz Middle School, University of Tartu
Paper: S
Sheraton Bondi
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
How do new teachers engage in a community of practice and reflective teaching while juggling demanding workloads? Three teachers in Japan, Estonia, and California discovered community and a motivating outlet for reflection through online journaling. The presenter analyzes the impact of the project on their professional growth and classroom teaching.

Yi-Chia Lin - Hui-Wen Chen
Demonstration: All
Hyatt Carmel B
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How can we use SMART Board as classroom teaching equipment to teach lessons in English language classrooms? SMART Board can help students engage in and participate in class activities.  This demonstration will show a way of teaching summary writing with SMART Board technology.

Stacey Greer, The History Project, UC Davis; Jessica Williams, The California History-Social Science Project, Winters High School
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 316
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
This workshop will demonstrate strategies to expand English Learners’ academic literacy and achievement in history at any grade level. Presenters will model classroom-tested lessons on the rise of democracy, a 10th-grade content standard, developed through the History Project at UC Davis’s Building Academic Literacy through History Program.

Brian Huff, Rowland Unified School District
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 314
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How do you foster motivation among adolescent learners? This demonstration will attempt to answer this question by presenting three strategies that encourage learner autonomy and integrative motivation. It will describe the step-by-step process of implementing each strategy along with providing handouts of sample activities and student work.

Charlotte Meneses, Workman High School, CSU Fullerton
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 319
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
This workshop will discuss the learning style profile assessment as an effective intervention strategy for English Language Learners (ELL) in secondary education. The purpose is for students to become aware of their learning traits and access information by utilizing specific learning strategies. These learning strategies would be provided by their teachers.