If you’re heading to Chicago for #TESOL18, here is a summary of when and where to meet up with other MIDTESOLers.
Tuesday, March 27 after the opening plenary, join us from 7:30-10 PM for the MIDTESOL Social Gathering. Meet us for food and fun at AceBounce, 230 N. Clark St. AceBounce is a high-end restaurant ping-pong lounge north of the McCormick Place. Besides enjoying appetizers and pizza, we will play games and give out prizes at the end of the evening. If you have any questions about this event, contact Amy Chastain.
In addition to the sessions listed below presented by MIDTESOL members, MIDTESOL also invites you to stop by the Affiliate Booth in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday, March 29 from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. We will have some freebies to give away to those who visit us at the booth.
Wednesday, March 28
- 7-7:45 AM Molly Kelley “Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism for Beginner and Low-Intermediate Students” E262 (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 7-7:45 AM Thu Tran “Reflecting on Balancing Accuracy and Fluency” E353b (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 9-9:50 AM Kurtis Foster “Roots to Radicals: Depth of Vocabulary Processing” Electronic Village (Expo Hall, Booth 491)
- 9-9:50 AM Betsy Baertlein “Creating Engaging, Content-Rich Prompts with Animated Short Films” Electronic Village (Expo Hall, Booth 491)
- 9:30-9:50 AM Molly Kelley and Lindsey Quinn “Collaborative Contracts: Facilitating a Dialogue on Plagiarism Through Autonomous Learning” E266 (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 9:30-10:15 AM Thu Tran “Strategies for Sustaining and Promoting Dialogues in TESOL” E258 (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 10-10:50 AM Melissa Meisterheim and Jeffrey Knowling “Using Electronic Resources to Classify Authentic Reading Materials by Level” Electronic Village (Expo Hall, Booth 491)
- 3-3:45 PM Crystal Bock Thiessen, Ann Bouma, Timothy Janda, and Emily Herrick “Keep Your Students Tuned In: Use Music!” N135 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-4:45 PM Thu Tran with Elizabeth Evans, Sarina Molina, and Yulin Sun “Action Research in the Adult Education Classroom” N127 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-4:45 PM Mark Algren with Maitam Al Lami, Lejla Bilal-Maley, Anne Marie Foerester Luu, Anastasia Khawaja, & Carter Winkle “ELT and Social Justice Within the Current Political Milieu“ N227a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-4:45 PM Elizabeth Gould, Ketty Reppert, Jill Fox, Sandra Thompson Issa with Johanna Gleason & Elizabeth Iannotti “Learn to Innovate: Ideas for Growing Your English Language Program” N230a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 4-4:45 PM Melinda Brown-Mason “Turning Listening on Its Ear: How to Improve Listening Comprehension” N139 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 5-5:45 PM Crytal Bock Thiessen and Timothy Janda “Read, Write, Cite: Discussing Research Methods at the Lower Levels” N226 (McCormick Place, North Building)
Thursday, March 29
- 7-7:20 AM Alicia Ambler “On Self-Care: Reflecting, Recharging, and Saying No” N229 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 7-7:20 AM Thu Tran “Online Resources for Students to Improve Spelling” E261 (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 9:30-11:15 AM Thu Tran with Lisa Gonzalves, Lia Olson, Betsy Parrish, and Rob Sheppard “College and Career Readiness Standards: Program Integration Realities” N230a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 9:30-10:15 AM Patrick T. Randolph and Elizabeth Musil “Sustaining Dialogues: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Mini-Professional Development Conferences” E253d (McCormick Place Lakeside Center, East)
- 10:30-11:15 AM Crystal Bock Thiessen “But Wait, There’s More! The English Language Infomercial Project” N128 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 11:30 AM -12:15 PM Junfu Gao “Exploring the Intersecting Identities of Graduate ITAs” N126 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 11:30 AM -1:15 PM Alexis Gonzalez and Jennifer Morrison “Developing Literacy in Newcomer ELLs with Limited or Interrupted Schooling” E450b (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 1-2:45 PM Ketty Reppert with Alicia Going, Laura Holland, Britt Johnson, Rhonda Petree, Bruce Rindler, J. Rowe, and Thomas Tasker “Supporting the Professional Development of Faculty Administrators” N227a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 1-2:45 PM Angela Bell with Laura Lukens, Debbie Zacarian, Kathryn Ciechanowski, & Michael Wei “Preparing Educators to Engage Families Constructively” N137 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 2-2:45 PM Sarah Lowen and Nicole Metzger “Encouraging Students to Value Note-Taking” N230a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 2-2:45 PM Andrea Hellman with Deborah Short, Linda New Levine, Nancy Cloud & Helene Becker “The 6 Principles in Action” N135 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-3:45 PM Crystal Bock Thiessen “More Than Words: Infographics for Language Teaching and Learning” N139 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-3:45 PM Patrick T. Randolph “A Guaranteed, Humanistic, 4-Step Process to Help Prevent Plagiarism” N131 (McCormick Place, North Building) (see related article)
- 3-4:45 PM Amy Chastain with Roxanna Senyshen, Natalia Balyasnikova, Barbara Lapornik “Criticality in Language Education and Development of Intercultural Competencies” N227a (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 3-4:45 PM Mark Algren with Lucilla Lopiore, Lillian Wong, Elena Andrei, & Shelley Taylor “Sustaining Dialogues Across TESOL: What We Know About Successful Conferences” N138 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 4-5:45 PM Andrea Hellman, Alexis González, Ximena Uribe-Zarain, Jennifer Rojas-McWhinney with Yulija Ardasheva, Gisela Ernst-Slavit, Sarah Newcomer and Steven Morrison “Designing Professional Development for Pre- and In-Service Educators” N229 (McCormick Place, North Building)
Friday, March 30
- 9:30-10:15 AM Mark Algren, Maureen Burke, and Irene Juzkiw “Be Prepared: Managing Program-Disruptive Crises” N129 (McCormick Place, North Building)
- 10-10:50 AM Liza Armstrong “Using Text Analysis Tools to Help Select Level-Appropriate Readings” Electronic Village (Expo Hall, Booth 491)
- 11:30 AM -12:15 PM Thu Tran “Students’ Preferences About Oral Corrective Feedback” E271a (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Elizabeth Gould & Emily Clark “The Controversy Continues: Curricular Decisions on Grammar Sequencing” E451b (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
- 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Patrick T. Randolph with Laura Ramm & Joseph Ruppert “ELL Read-a-Thons: Feeling the Language Through Performing the Written Word” E253b (McCormick Place, Lakeside Center, East)
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