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.

Stephanie Levin, San Francisco City College, CATESOL
Paper: CC
Convention Center 318
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
The presenter will briefly discuss improvisation, its principals in a linguistic environment, and how it works in a classroom setting. Participants will have the opportunity to use all the conversation sprinters and practice the improvisation techniques within the group. A handout of conversation sprinters and techniques will be distributed.

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.

Melody Noll, Ameritalk
Commercial: CC
Sheraton Beavis
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
“Why don’t my students talk?!” A paradigm exists that will get students to do just that! Borrowed from the field of facilitation, the “Focused Conversation” will move learners through four levels of thinking, promote meaningful interaction, and facilitate learning. Teachers will come away with simple tools for sparking successful conversations.

Oliva Fernandez, Marketing Director, Pearson
Commercial: A, CC
Hyatt Santa Barbara
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Lower- and higher-proficiency students are often ignored by available learner dictionaries. Beginning learners need as much support as possible, and their advanced colleagues have their own unique needs. This session illustrates how Longman meets these needs with 4 new learner dictionaries. Materials will be distributed.

Allyson Joye, American River College, Sacramento
Paper: CC
Sheraton Bataglieri
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
This presentation will provide ideas about using graded ESL readers in novice-high to intermediate-mid community college reading classes. The presenter has used graded readers for several years and will share tips on choosing readers, the logistics of using class novels vs. group novels, and different types of classroom activities.

Convention Center 202
Panelists:
Mark Roberge, San Francisco State University
Sharon Seymour, City College of San Francisco
Laura Walsh, City College of San Francisco
Representative from C4 at the University of California, Riverside

The panel will discuss criteria for the success of community-college ESL programs and examine the preliminary results of a large best practices study by the California Community College Collaborative (C4). The successful movement of non-credit ESL students into credit programs will be discussed along with the preparation and success of community college transfer students in the CSU system.