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Fall 2015 Issue of Idiom online
(Volume 45, issue 4)
| Table of Contents |
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Pages |
President's Letter
by Robin Finnan-Jones, Ed.D., Retired NYCDOE; President of NYS TESOL |
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1-4 |
Six Scaffolding Strategies for the ESL Classroom
by Scott B. Freiberger, John Bowne Elementary School |
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5-8 |
New Beginnings: Leadership Support for the Integrated
ENL Initiative
by Carol Wertheimer, Consultant, & Andrea Honigsfeld,
Molloy College
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9-10 |
Reflections:
What Do PET Scans and Heroes Have to Do With Teaching
by Barbara Suter, Teaching for Life Blog |
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11-12 |
Book Review:
Diane Staehr Fenner, Peter Kozik, and Ayanna Cooper, Evaluating ALL
Teachers of English Learners and Students with Disabilities. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. 2015.
by Diane Garafalo, Northern ESL PLC
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13-14 |
SIGS and Regions Spotlight:
ELL Symposium: Planning for Today’s Diverse Learners
by Maureen Edmonds
Tanya Rosado-Barringer |
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15-16 |
SIGs and Regions Spotlight: Western New York Region
by Kimberly R. Wolf; NYS TESOL member, Buffalo Region Focus Group
member and Denise Gonez-Santos, NYS TESOL Buffalo Region Chair
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17 |
SIGS and Regions Spotlight: Long Island
42nd Annual Conference of the Linguistics Association of Canada
and the United States
by Jackie Nenchin, Molloy College
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18-19 |
Tech Tools: A Digital Head Start on Text-Modification
and Collaborative “Genius”
by Christine Rosalia, Hunter College, CUNY
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20-21 |
Promising Practices: Engaging ELLs in Culture
Activities in the Classroom
by Ann C. Wintergerst, St. John’s University |
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22-24 |
What Do You Miss About ESL?: Insights from Former
Students
by Lisa Rost Lewis & Sarah Elia, Haggerty English Language Program
SUNY New Paltz
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25-26
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Transition Team--Updates about NYS TESOL
by Susanne Marcus, NYS TESOL Past President
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27-29
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Learning One Hundred Words a Day through Association and
Note-Taking by Yuehai (Mike) Xiao, New York University
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30-32
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| NYS TESOL leadership (2015) |
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