Adult ESL Training Video Project The New American Horizons Foundation, through its Adult ESL Training Video Project, has created a series of short, accessible teacher training videos on adult ESOL instruction. Each video is about 30 minutes and uses classroom and instructor interview footage to illustrate topics in adult ESOL practice such as approaches to teaching each of the four skills, planning lessons, working with emergent literacy learners, and grammar and vocabulary development in context. All the videos are available free of charge online, or DVDs can be purchased for a minimal cost-recovery fee. The videos could be used to suit a range of training needs, for example: as self-access resources, incorporated in workshops or volunteer trainings, as part of online training, or teacher education courses. Twelve videos are available for viewing at http://www.newamericanhorizons.org/training-videos and http://www.newamericanhorizons.org
Arlington Education and Employment Program (REEP) Professional Development Videos
ESL/ESOL Techniques (2 videos)
Technology Integration Using Smartphones (6 videos)
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: Internet calling with Skype 3:26
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: showing progress with slideshows This video doesn’t focus on use of smartphones. 3:40
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: pronunciation practice with audio recordings 3:29
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: recording student presentations This video focuses on recording student presentations in which students use video recording features of their smartphones. 3:28
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: instant polling with Poll Everywhere Instant polling of students, who use smartphones or feature phones with sms text messaging 3:55
- Smartphones in Adult ESL/ESOL Instruction: picture prompts and review 3:06
Assessing Knowledge of ESL Literacy
The Reading Demonstration was designed by Literacywork International as an assessment for low-level ESL learners. It uses real-life materials and texts. Students are asked to indicate what items they recognize and how much they can read. Materials include fast food items, utility bills, grocery flyers, along with connected texts such as short personal narratives and newspapers. Learners are asked to read aloud a passage written in their native language as well. This is a quick way for the teacher to get a good sense of the underlying fluency and decoding skills the learner possesses. It has three sections: 1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQHrCxNg6A 2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3r2kHwqXFA&NR=1 3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csEHEb_oV2Y&feature=related
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly (CLESE) Bright Ideas – ESL for Elders Project: http://clese.org/elder-programs/bright-ideas/videos/
- I have a problem http://clese.org/elder-programs/bright-ideas/videos/ The “I have a problem” video shows students responding to common life problems and suggesting solutions. The teacher introduces a scenario and invites students to comment. It also shows a student offering his own problem to the class as others offer input. The web site includes a transcript so students can follow along.
- Excuse me, how much are the peppers? http://clese.org/elder-programs/bright-ideas/videos/ This video, meant for community teachers with little background in teaching ESL, intersperses classroom teaching with a discussion of instructional principles. The teacher teaches the English names of vegetables to a group of Bosnian elderly, who speak very little English, and then takes them on a field trip so they can compare vegetable prices at a farm with prices in a Chicago supermarket. Some of the 7 ESL lessons below, produced by Literacywork International, have beginning level job-related content. Several classroom methods or strategies are used: true-false cards to check comprehension, judicious use of the first language for explanation, the teacher drawing pictures (chalk talk) and students drawing pictures.
- Review of Survival English (01:35)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9BL2eENs0
True-False Cards to Check Comprehension (03:45)
Lesson Preview in Spanish (1:33)
Review Jobs Children Have (03:11)
Teacher Describes Her First Job (02:12)
Chalk Talk
Students Draw Pictures and Describe First Job (03:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExuQKvXASE
Comprehensible Input Demonstration
Valentina Gonzalez, a Texas Professional Development Specialist for English Language Learners, first demonstrates instructions for learners that are not comprehensible unless you speak the language she speaks; then, using the same words in the same language, she demonstrates how to make her instructions much more understandable using specific language teaching strategies that she later names.
Minnesota Literacy Council Classroom Videos
The Classroom Activities for Adult ESL Learners video series for teachers and tutors “features professional teachers leading adult ESL classes through common classroom activities. The videos include both volunteer-led and teacher-led classrooms. Teachers and tutors can watch these videos in order to develop their teaching practices and become more comfortable introducing new activities to their learners….Each featured activity has a PDF description of the activity directions and two videos: a full version, which shows the entire activity from beginning to end, and a short version, which gives an overview of the activity and highlights the instructions and teacher-led transitions. The activities featured in these videos were selected from the Pre-Beginning and Beginning Level ESL Curriculum Units. The Activities include: Picture Stories, Concentration, Total Physical Response (TPR), Walking Dictation, Letter/Sound Drill, Conversation Queue, Exit Ticket, Ball Toss, Substitution Drill, Concentric Circles, Mingle Grid, Post-It™ Chart, Number of the Day, Walk, Talk, Trade, Dialogue and Dialogue Variations, Jigsaw and Vocabulary Bingo https://mnliteracy.org/classroomvideos