MIDTESOL is building a library of webinars focusing on issues and skills relevant to TESOL. Watch individual webinars below and subscribe to our YouTube channel for new webinars.
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Separating Difference from Disability
Disproportionality in identifying and placing culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education is still an issue in our schools. In this webinar, we address the challenge of identifying when a learning or behavior problem is due to language learning difference, language disorder, or other learning/transition issue. Some CLD students are disproportionately placed in special education and some are disproportionately being denied needed special education services. The needs of these diverse learners are not being appropriately addressed when “difference” is used to disproportionately place or deny diverse learners special education services. Both classroom and clinical personnel are challenged as they adapt procedures and instruction to meet the educational needs of these diverse learners. Recorded with a live interactive audience on April 26, 2019.
Hosted by: Kaylene Powell, Nebraska Member-at-Large
Presenter: Dr. Catherine Collier
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Toward a Strengths-Based Approach to Teaching Adults with Emerging Literacy
The word “illiterate” is often used to describe adults who have not yet attained basic reading and writing skills in any language, yet this word carries many negative connotations and fails to recognize the unique skill sets that these adults must possess in order to navigate their everyday lives. When we encounter these adults in our English language classes, it is important to recognize the strengths they bring to the classroom as we also confront the unique challenges presented in working with this population. Recorded with a live interactive audience on April 25, 2019.
Hosted by: MIDTESOL’s Community College and Adult Education Interest Section
Presenters: Katie Rosenberger, Anne Dugger, and Elizabeth Baertlein
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A Walkthrough in Evaluating Materials for Inclusivity
This webinar walks second language instructors through how to evaluate their course materials for queer inclusivity. We start with some guidelines for the evaluation process and then move into specific examples of how these criteria can be applied to actual textbooks, works of creative writing, articles, and podcasts.
Presenters: Molly M Kelley and Andrew Lewis, The University of Iowa for MIDTESOL Higher Education Interest Section – Recorded with a live interactive audience on August 24, 2018