Cobb County ESOL

Diversity Training

Click here to download the information on diversity: Download DiversityIntranetDeck2011

U.S. Naturalization Test

Anyone applying for U.S. citizenship, the applicant must pass the naturalization test. How would you do? The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides a naturalization self test study tool to test knowledge of U.S. history and government in preparation of the test. The actual civics test is NOT a multiple choice test. The civics test is an oral test. During a naturalization interview, up to 10 questions are asked from the list of 100 questions.  6 out of 10 questions must be answered correctly to pass the civics portion of the naturalization test.

KSU ESOL Conference 2012

Kennesaw State University and the Georgia Department of Education – Title III and ESOL

present the

11^th Annual ESOL Conference “Pathways to Success for English Learners”

February 7-9, 2012   7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker on February 7th & 8th: Debbie Zacarian

Keynote Speaker on February 9th: Deborah Short

Middle School & High School Teachers:   February 7, 2012

Elementary School Teachers:  February 8, 2012 OR February 9, 2012

Location: KSU Center  - 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144                                                                               

Cost: $99 by January 13, 2012 (includes lunch)

Late registration: $119 - Must be received by January 27, 2012

Conference Information:  https://education.kennesaw.edu/cepp/content/esol-conference

For questions or concerns: bcoecepp@kennesaw.edu

Are you interested in presenting? Click here to download the conference proposal form: Download Call_for_Presenters_instructions_2012 FINAL_11_1_11

Videos on Collaboration & Co-teaching

Check out the videos below (When possible, the videos are provided via a link, an embedded player and as a mp4 file for your convenience.):

Collaboration - Effective Instruction for ELLs: The University of Minnesota has put together a comprehensive collection of videos and discussion questions that can assist ESOL and regular ed teachers in understanding collaboration in the push-in setting.

ESOL Collaborative Teaching: Download ESOL Collaborative Team Teaching - YouTube

 

 

 

 

Articles for Collaboration and Co-teaching

Trying to get a handle on the push-in model of ESOL instruction? Loads of information and ideas in the articles listed below:

DelliCarpini, M. (2008) Teacher Collaboration for ESL/EFL Academic Success

Haynes, J. (2007). Collaborative Teaching: Are Two Teachers Better than One?

Hoffman & Dahlman (2007) Together We are Better

Honigsfeld & Dove (2010) ESL Co-teaching and Collaboration: Opportunities to Develop Teacher Leadership and Enhance Student Learning:  Download DoveHonigsfeld_Article

Saunders & Hart (2008) Educators share strategies to helps ELLs succeed

Keith Folse Training - Teaching Writing to ELs

Many thanks to Heinle/Cengage for bringing Keith Folse to Cobb!

Click below to download Keith's wonderful presentation that was shared with high school ESOL teachers on November 10, 2011. Thank you, Keith!

Download 5 Activities in WRITING THE VOCAB's job

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