MIDTESOL Fall 2005 Conference:
“Ways With Words”
CMSU's Central Summit Center
777 NW Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit, MO

Dates:
    Friday, Oct. 21 & Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005
Location:
    CMSU's Lee's Summit Center
    Directions

Hotel Information: (Rooms will be held for conferees until 9/23)

1. Hampton Inn ($89)
1751 NE Douglas Street, Lee's Summit
Phone (816) 347-8600 (Contact: Lindy--code:MTS)

2. Fairfield Inn ($68 - $78)
1301 NE Windsor Drive, Lee's Summit
Phone (816) 524-7572 (Contact: Kevin)

Registration Form (print, fill out, mail in)

Exhibitor Registration Exhibitor List For 2005

Cancellations will be honored before October 7th only.

Presenter's Call Deadline September 15, 2005

(4) 2005 Travel Awards Applications

2005 Pat-on-the-Back Award Nomination

Conference Abstracts and Times

Publisher Invitation & Registration Forms     Exhibitors List

I. Pre-conference afternoon workshop:

Strategies for Sanity and Success
in the ESL Classroom

This special pre-conference presentation will be a hands-on event for teachers from K through Adult. The presenter is Jayme Adelson- Goldstein, author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary, Listen First, and Read and Reflect: Academic Strategies and Cultural Awareness - all under the imprint of the Oxford University Press. Jayme Adelson-Goldstein has been a member of the ESL teaching community for the past 24 years. During the last fifteen years, she has focused on teacher education and curriculum development, providing teacher-training throughout the U.S. on subjects including focused listening, vocabulary acquisition, and multi-level lesson planning.

A student-centered, communicative framework enables instructors to seize the teachable moment whenever and wherever it occurs. The presenter will lead participants through instructional strategies, techniques and activities that are the basis for this framework and provide opportunities to develop activities for their own classes. Strategies for coping with inflexible environments and multi-level classes are included. Handouts.

II. Pre-conference morning & afternoon workshop:

Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL):

Understanding ELLs: What Secondary Level Teachers

Need to Know About ELLs and Be Able to Do with Them

PRESENTER: Ronald Long is a Professor of English and Teaching English as a Second Language at Central Missouri State University and a Past-President of MIDTESOL. During the summers of 2004 and 2005, he has attended two Quality Teaching for English Learner workshops and is in the process of completing a national level certification with the Teacher Quality Initiative directed by Dr. Aida Walqui of the Teacher Professional Development Program of the Western Regional Educational Laboratory in San Francisco, CA.

Plenary Information:     

Ways with Words...More or Less

The plenary will address critical topics that impact the complex skill of second language reading and discuss ways we can help our learners become more successful readers of English. Currently the coordinator for Adult ESOL for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, David Red's special interest in reading in a second language began with his work at the American English Language Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. He received his doctorate in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Other notable experience in the field includes teaching English in an adult education program, serving as a Language Training Supervisor for the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC; serving as a volunteer tutor of ESOL at the local literacy council and training other tutors there; serving as the president of the Greater Washington Reading Council, and chairing the Publications Committee of the International Reading Association.