Mini-Conference 2024

Workshop Slides and Handouts

Session 1

Community Partner Presentation: Sentara Health

Helping Students Build Vocabulary

• Slides: Helping Students Build Vocabulary

How to Become a U.S. Citizen (and help your students along that path)

• Slides: How to Become a U.S. Citizen
• Handout: Citizenship 

Session 2

Community Partner Presentation: Blue Ridge Literacy

• Slides: Reading Between the Lines: Understanding Cultural Diversity in ESOL programs 

Where's That Now? Using Research Methods to Help Students Find Community Resources

• Slides: Research Methods to Help Students Find Community Resources
• Handout: Community Resources Workshop Graphic Organizer
• Resource Sheet: Community Resources Workshop Source List
• Charlottesville/Albemarle Resources PDF 

Teaching Conversation Skills

• Slides: Teaching Conversation Skills
• Handout: Teaching Conversation Skills Handout

Session 3

Community Partner Presentation: International Rescue Committee, Charlottesville

Plan to Be Flexible: a Presentation and Round Table Discussion on Strategies and Challenges of Lesson Planning

• Slides: Plan to Be Flexible

Pick Your Battles: Best Practices for Helping Students with Pronunciation

• Slides: Pick Your Battles: Best Practices for Helping Students with Pronunciation