This training session is for current volunteers in the Colorado Refugee ESL in-home tutoring program. We regret that we cannot accommodate attendees from outside of the organization.
Greetings, tutors!
Based on feedback from you, the topic of our next inservice training for current in-home tutors will be: Assessment.
Saturday, September 28
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Emily Griffith Technical College
1860 Lincoln St.
Room 404
This
presentation will help tutors understand the different types of
assessment used in adult education and with language learners. How do
you know if your student is making progress? What is the difference
between summative and formative assessment and how to do you apply them
within your teaching? What kinds of tests tell you what it is you're
trying to measure? Learn the answers to these questions while gaining
insights into how to gauge your student's progress. A variety of
assessment methods will be discussed and demonstrated.
About our presenter
Chris
Kilmer is an instructor and instructor support specialist in the
English Language Acquisition (ELS) program at Emily Griffith Technical
College. Chris is the former materials specialist in the EGTC ELA
department and he has extensive experience with language-learner
assessment. Chris grew up in Aurora and went on to graduate from
Stanford University. After spending five years setting up and running
English teacher training programs in Brazil and Chile with Bridge
Linguatec, Chris returned to Colorado and has been teaching English to adults of
all stripes and objectives, from Somali literacy students to Germans
trying to get into graduate school and everything in between. He especially likes
the contact with other cultures and the opportunity to help some amazing
people.
But wait--there's more!
The
first 30 minutes of the session will be a tutor mingle-meet-and-greet.
Being an in-home tutor can feel like a solitary experience sometimes, so
this casual activity is an opportunity for you to meet other in-home
tutors and talk about your students, your experience, and whatever else
comes to mind.
Following the meet-and-greet, it's your time
to talk about your favorite teaching tips and tricks. We'll spend one
hour hearing from all of you about what resources, activities, and
strategies you've found to be most successful in working with your
student. This peer-to-peer sharing has become an invaluable part of our
inservice sessions, so please come prepared to talk about--and even
demonstrate--the ways you've been helping your student learn. Our
classroom has internet access, a computer, and that nifty Promethean
board, and you're welcome to make copies of handouts to share.
Our guest presenter will be with us starting at 10:30, and we will wrap up at 12:00 noon.
Please
don't forget to register ahead of time using the link above. As always,
I must give a list of attendees to DPS security the night before our
session. Thanks for your cooperation.
I look forward to seeing you on September 28!
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