8:30 – 12:00 School visits: PLEASE NOTE: For many schools, this is standardized testing, Homecoming, accreditation, or non-class time and they are not available.

• Iowa City Public Schools (one elementary class AM or PM)
• University of Iowa Intensive English Program (three classes)
• Cedar Rapids Public Schools (elementary and middle schools)
• Marshalltown Public Schools (4 classes)
• Washington High School in Cedar Rapids would love visitors,
       Classes:
       Intermediate English 9:12 - 10:07
       ESL World History 10:12 - 11:11
       ESL Science 11:50 - 12:45
       ESL Math--every class hour from 9:12 - 1:45
  

9:00 – 1:00 MIDTESOL Board Meeting

1:00 – 3:30 Polaroid workshop ($15 additional charge)

2:00 – 6:00 Registration

7:00 – 9:30 Opening Session and Reception, Triangle Ballroom

Dr. Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University

7:15 – 10:30 Registration

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 11:00 Concurrent Sessions, Iowa Memorial Union

• Ligeia M. H. Lamberty and Renee Hudson: "Activities for Applying Multiple Intelligence Theory in the Classroom"
• Kathryn Spike: "A Sound Beginning: Focusing on English Sound Production"
• Philip Plourde, Thomas Riedmiller, and Gail Farber: "The Bridge Project: A Beginners’ Program of English Language Study"
• Susan Isham: "Classroom Assessment Techniques"
• Marcia Ryskamp: "Grammar Goes to the Movies"
• Carolyn Shields: "The Language of Cartoons: Understanding and Explaining Them"
• Korakote Natiladdanon and Yuko Takayama: "Guessing Unknown Words in Reading"
• Chun Hu: "From the Theories of Second Language Learning to Teaching Practice"
• Yana Cornish: "Undergraduate Study of Physics and Chemistry: An English-language Needs Analysis"
• Jan Guidry, Eada Arbab, and Katherine Immel: A Qualitative Study of Korean and Japanese Students’ Expectations in a Preacademic ESL Program"
• Bob Yates and Dennis Muchisky: What you Need to Know About the History of Language Teaching"
• Cathy Howland: "Families and Folktales: A Story Project"
• Jeanne Angel: "Desperately Seeking Funding -- Writing a Successful Grant"
• Kay Beauchesne: "Best of KATESOL"
• Garth Cornish: "Issues of Teaching with Multimedia in a Foreign Language Classroom"
• Ron Long: "Resources for ESL Teachers and Students on the Internet"

8:30 – 11:00 Concurrent Sessions, Library Computer Lab

• Garth Cornish: "Issues of Teaching with Multimedia in a Foreign Language Classroom"
• Tom Riedmiller: "Land That Dream Job with the Information Superhighway"

11:00 – 12:00 Annual MIDTESOL Business Meeting

12:15 – 1:45 Lunch

Dr. Socorro Herrera: "A Passion for Challenge: Teaching for Diversity at 21"

• Socorro Herrera: "Rethinking Approaches to Diverse Student Learning: Needs in the Twenty-First Century"
• Tim Stoeckel and Mike Williams: Designing Meaningful Curriculum for Special Summer Intensive English Programs"
• Kate Kasten and Maureen Burke: "Guiding New Teachers Through the Troublespots"
• Beth Smith: "Posters for Oral Presentations"
• Cheryl Eason: "All I Needed I Learned Training my Dog—NOT!
• Jean McCollister: "ESL Pronunciation Practice with Fifth-Grade Native Speakers"
• Tom Riedmiller: "Land that Dream Job with the Information Highway"

Swap Shop

2:00 – 3:30 Concurrent Session, Library Computer Lab

• Ron Long: "Internet Resources for ESL" I encourage participants to bring a one page description of a web site which they have used which includes the following: the address for the site, a detailed description of the site, and the description of an activity which they have used with the site.

3:45 – 4:45 Distribution of publishers’ donated texts

MIDTESOL Application

MIDTESOL Board
  Constitution

Job Information

Secretary's Minutes

09-22-2000
unapproved

Conference Index
With abstracts of 1998 presentations
With abstracts of 1999 presentations

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Jobs

University of Iowa

ARTICLES

Stories from Around the World

Thought Provoking

TESOL Federal Update

"Language Moves in Washington"

Materials Writers Interest Section Call for materials.

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LINKS

TESOL Affliate Links