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MATSOL 40th Anniversary Conference

Lessons from the Past, Innovations for the Future

Thursday- Friday May 3-4, 2012

Pre-Conference Institutes: Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center
Framingham, MA


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Registration includes
continental breakfast & plated lunch.

Sheraton Framingham Hotel
& Conference Center

1657 Worcester Rd., Framingham

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* MATSOL reserves the right to make necessary changes to the conference program.

 
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Pre-Conference Institutes

Sold Out

Check-in opens 8:30 am for morning PCIs
4:30 pm for evening PCI


Co-Teaching and Collaborative School Practices for English Language Learners

Maria Dove and Andrea Honigsfeld, Instructors

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 9 am to 4 pm with lunch included, plus two follow-up sessions.

This Pre-Conference Institute will introduce ESL, bilingual, sheltered content, and special education teacher partners or school teams to various co-teaching models and collaborative practices in classrooms and schools with English language learners.

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RTI in Practice: Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Intervention for English Learners 

Dr. Catherine Collier, Instructor

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 9 am to 4 pm, with lunch included.

This Pre-Conference Institute will introduce ESL, bilingual, sheltered content, and special education teachers to practical interventions, at different tiers of intervention, that take into consideration the cultures, first languages and second language proficiency levels of this diverse group of students,

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Listening and Speaking: Oral Language and Vocabulary Development for English Language Learners, K-8

Dr. Betty Ansin Smallwood, Instructor

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 from 5:00 pm 9:00 pm, with a light dinner included.

In this interactive workshop, participants will enhance their knowledge of teaching and learning processes that promote oral language and vocabulary development and will experience strategies to increase these skills. Participants will receive a textbook. This institute is Generously co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics.

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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Conference 

Sold out

Check-in opens 7:30 am
Sessions 8:30 am to 5:45 pm.


Featured Speakers

Keynote

Talk is Priceless: Building Students’ Skills for Powerful Academic Conversations
Jeff Zwiers, Stanford University

Featured Speaker

English Language Learners with Disabilities: Are We Serving the Right Students?
Alba Ortiz, The University of Texas at Austin

Invited Speaker

Challenges of Working with Postsecondary Multilingual Students with Learning Disabilities
Patricia Mytkowicz, Curry College

Introducing Linguistic Inquiry to English Language Learners: A Collaborative Effort
Maya Honda, Wheelock College; Wayne O'Neil, MIT; Daniel Ginsberg, Georgetown University

Digital Storytelling for English Language Learners
Tom Daccord, EdTechTeacher

Immigrants Raising Children: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children's Development
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University


Concurrent Sessions

A Declaration of Learner Independence:  Cultivating Learner Autonomy

A Linguistic Lens to Help Students Decipher Mathematics Word Problems

Action Planning with RTI (Response to Intervention)

Action Research as Professional Development

Addressing "Stuck" Students: Helping All Students to Progress

APPLE: the Amherst Partnership for Parents Learning English

Connecting English Language Learners to Culture: More than Authentic Material

Co-Teaching and Collaborative Practices

Cross Cultural Research Writing Challenges:  A Chinese and American Dialogue

Declare independence: Be your own materials writer

Developing Student Voices: Meeting the Standards for Speaking

Encountering American History and Culture in Literature: Challenges and Opportunities

English for Sci/Tech: Malaria, Robots, Lasers, Dark Energy, and More!

Entwining Writing Engagement with Academic and Content Vocabulary Building

Essential Academic Track Pronunciation Skills: Operationalizing Teacher and Learner Goals

Faculty-Staff Collaboration to Support Scholarship Students in Intensive English Programs

Gaining Respect:  Promoting ELL in the Low-Incidence School

Immediately Useful WIDA Tools

International Teaching with the English Language Fellow Program

iOS apps for ELLs

Iraq-Country in War: Culture, People, and Education

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! Students Film Commercials in Business English Class

Making the Grade:  Rethinking Our Assessments of Post-secondary ELLs

Revolutionizing Secondary ELL programs with SIFE, refugee and low-literacy students

Supporting ELL's Academic Literacy through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Taking Action on Academic Language and Literacy: A Team Approach

Teaching Culture Through Videos and Songs

Teaching with Memory Systems in Mind

Teasing Apart Writing Skills With LiveScribe Pens

The Dilemma Faced by Undocumented Students: Past, Present, Future

Transform your ESL classroom with the AIM

Transforming Schools for English Learners Using a Four-Prong Framework

Using Principles and Practices of Adult Learning to Inform Professional Development

Vocabulary Learning for ELLs - "WOW"!

What's Easy, Hard, and Helpful: Lessons from English Language Learners


 
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Friday, May 4, 2012
Conference

Sold Out

Check-in opens 6:30 am
Sessions 7:30 am to 4:45 pm.


Featured Speakers

Keynote

On Repetition in Language Learning and Teaching
Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan

Featured Speakers

2nd Annual State of the State on English Language Education in Massachusetts
Esta Montano, Director, Office of Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement, Department of Elementary & Secondary Education

Adult ESOL in Greater Boston
Anne Serino, Massachusetts ABE State Director, Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Navjeet Singh, Commonwealth Corporation

Massachusetts Community College ESL Faculty Discussion
Dr. Madhu Sharma, Wachusett Community College
Dr. Eileen Kelley, Holyoke Community College

Title III: Changes and Challenges 2012
Michelle Griffin, Office of Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement, Department of Elementary & Secondary Education

Invited Speaker

Knowing your Haitian students: Some Notes on History, Language and Education in Haiti
Michel DeGraff, MIT


Current Sessions

(out)Reaching and Teaching: It Takes A Community

Academic Language for ELLs through Discourse-based instruction  

Academic Vocabulary for Active Learning

Adult ESOL in Massachusetts

Blogs, Wikis, and Writer's Workshop: Sparking Motivation With Authentic Audiences

Designing and Facilitating Innovative ESL Online Courses

Effects of Trauma on Learning and Behavior: Strategies That Work

ELL Summer Enrichment: A Technological Approach to Fostering Language Development

Ending the Middle Child Syndrome of Vocabulary in ESL Programs

ESL and Content Area Partnerships for Literacy (Elementary)

ESL Students Lend their Expertise to English Literature Classroom

Facilitating Communication: A Collaboration between History and ESL Classes

Harassment (NOT Bullying!) of Refugee and Immigrant Youth

Increasing Academic Writing through the Use of Technology

Increasing Student Interaction Through The Use Of Clickers

Involving Immigrant Parents in K-12 Success: the Parents' Perspective

Knowing your Haitian students: Some notes on history, language and education in Haiti

Launching Language Learning for Newcomers with Cognates!

Learning About Our Learners by Reading About Their Lives

Listening to Teachers: What Works in PD

Massachusetts Community College ESL Faculty Discussion

Prepositions, Permutations, and Plurals - Math Registers for College Bound ELLs

Research First Hand: Chinese Students Speak Out about Group Work

Schwa - It's Everywhere

State of the State on English Language Education in Massachusetts (Second Annual)

Surprises in the Classroom: How Cultural Values Shape Parental Expectations

Teacher Collaboration: SFL and Genre-based Pedagogy to Develop Science Literacy

Teaching Language in Math: A Coach and A Teacher Collaborate

Text Me Vocab

The Challenge of Multilevel Classrooms: Differentiating Assignments and Assessment

The Cognitive Map:  a powerful tool for teachers

Title III: Changes and Challenges 2012

Using Cuisenaire Rods and Stories to Teach Verb Tenses Visually

Using technology with a language-delayed ELL student

Vibrant Vocabulary Today!

What Teachers Need to Know About Listening

Why Should I Care?: Engaging ELLs Through Authentic Learning

Why We Can't Wait: Case Studies and Application for RTI

WIDA, A Tale from Two States


 
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