Saturday, October 16, 2021 WATESOL's Virtual Conference Registration: https://watesol.org/event-4497308 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr. Suhanthie Motha |
WATESOL FALL 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Striving for Justice and Innovation
Session | Room A | Room B | Room C | Room D | Room E |
9:00 – 9:50am Coffee Hour | Coffee Chats | Registration, Membership & Technical Support | Exhibitor Drop-in U.S. Department of State English Language Programs | Exhibitor Drop-in ESL Library | |
10:00 – 10:50am Live Sessions 1 | Invited Speaker "Teflpreneurship": Building a Successful Online ESL Business or Side Hustle | Three Steps toward an Asset-based Approach to Language Teaching HE, TT, Ad | Using Gifted and Talented Methodologies to Enhance ESOL Instruction K-12, TT, C/M | Exhibitor U.S. Department of State English Language Programs I | Exhibitor ESL Library |
11:00 – 11:50am Live Sessions 2 | Invited Speaker Navigating Sexual Diversity in ELT Contexts: Recommendations and Negotiations | Integrating Translanguaging Pedagogy Into Our Teaching Practice! K-12, BE, TT | Preparing International Students for Expectations of Academic Integrity at US Universities HE, TT, PA, C/M | SIG Session - Adult Ed | Achievement Gap or Cultural Dissonance? Reframing the Conversation about SLIFE: The Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm K-12 |
12:15 – 1:15 Keynote | “Is antiracist English language teaching possible? Striving for racial justice in TESOL” | ||||
1:30 – 2:20pm Live Sessions 3 | Equity Strategies for Collaboratively Teaching Multilingual Learners K | SIG Session - Higher Ed | I cannot even spell paleontology, let alone understand": broadening adult multilingual visitors’ access to museums AE, BE, C/M | Exhibitor U.S. Department of State English Language Programs II | Examining ESL/EFL Teachers’ Attitudes and Perspectives towards World Englishes AE, TT, N, Ad |
2:30 – 3:20pm Live Sessions 4 | Invited Speaker The Invisible Student: Identifying and Accommodating the Low-Literacy Learner | Foster Autonomy, Analytical Skills, and Agency Through Reading and Writing Circles AE, HE | SIG Session - K-12 Leveraging Minecraft Education Edition for Language Development | Impact of English Only Instruction on English Proficiency of ELs K-12, HE, BE, TT | |
3:30 – 4:00pm Closing |
Context/Focus Key:
K-12: Kindergarten-12th grade education
HE: Higher Education
AE: Adult Education
BE: Bilingual Education
TT: Teacher Training
N: NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers)
Ad: Advocacy
C/M: Curriculum & Materials Development
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