[Bestplus] BEST Plus workshop

[Brown, Teresa]

Hi everyone,
 
I wanted to share a few tips from the workshop I did yesterday.   I recommend having a set of overhead transparencies on-hand; they saved the day yesterday.  Despite a perfectly fine, working LCD projector when I did an equipment check at 8:45 a.m., when I needed it at 9:45 for the Power Point show, the fan broke!  Luckily, we were able to continue with the transparencies, and only got about 10 minutes behind schedule.  (Thank you a million, Michelle, for thinking to send the overheads with the CD and video.)
 
Half of the people at the workshop were from one program (mine), and half weren't.  When they did the practice administrations, I asked them to pair with someone from a different program from their own.  It worked really well; I think everyone stayed more on-task, and I think it generated a greater variety of questions in our discussion afterwards. 
 
And I have to send a million thanks to Carey Reid for driving to Framingham in those heavy thunderstorms Wednesday night to get back-up materials in case the CD and tape from CAL didn't arrive before the workshop.  (They did, but just barely.) On behalf of the 12 trainees and myself, gracias, thank you, merci, and all that!
 
Teresa Brown
ESOL Coordinator
Community Learning Center
19 Brookline Street, Cambridge, MA  02139
 
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