MyEnglishLab: Your Solution for Anytime, Anywhere Learning

Presented by Janay Phillips, Pearson ELT

Friday, March 20 at 2:00 EDT

MyEnglishLab, Pearson’s Language Management System, provides solutions for distance learning, anytime, anywhere. This session will walk you through the steps of registering your product, creating a course, and utilizing the wide array of tools available within MyEnglishLab.

Using Versant Placement Test as a Home-Based Assessment

Presented by Nick Laul, Pearson Assessment

Thursday, March 19 at 2:00 EDT

Is your program in need of a home-based testing solution that will allow you to assess your students’ English language skills if your primary test is not available? The Versant English Placement Test is a 4-skills test that can be taken by computer for admissions and program placement. With score mappings to common scales like GSE, CEFR and TOEFL, it is easier than ever to integrate results into your existing enrollment process. In this session you will learn about Versant Placement Test and how you can implement it with your program.

Digital Solutions for Online Learning

Presented by Christina Cavage

Wednesday, March 18 at 2:00 EDT

Learn how you can leverage digital tools to deliver course content in an online environment. This session covers the how to’s of using MyEnglishLab and other tools to keep your course moving and your students motivated.

Distance Teaching and Learning: Useful Tips for Making it Work

Presented by Ken Beatty
Online teaching and remote learning are increasing globally, so how do you make it work for both educator and learner? In this webinar Dr. Ken Beatty, an expert on online teaching and learning, will focus on the needs of teachers and learners of all ages and at all levels.
He’ll explore how to get organized, plan effectively, stay motivated and keep learners engaged and answer key questions about online distance learning

Adapting Not Creating: Maximizing Student Work Without Extra Teacher Work

Presented by Sara Davila

Digital content, blended learning, or print books: teachers make daily decisions on how to leverage content to achieve the best learning for students. In this session, we will examine how to make adjustments using high and low-tech solutions to improve alignment to measurable program outcomes, add scaffolding, and increase challenges, without adding more work for busy teachers.

About the Speaker

Sara Davila

Sara Davila is a teacher, teacher trainer and subject matter expert working in applications of research informed practices in the context of language development. She has worked in the US and abroad as a language teacher and learning expert in the field of language acquisition. Her current research is focused on the Global Scale of English and the practical application of developing accelerated, goal oriented learning programs that provide measurable progress. Sara also continues to contribute to the field through her website, which contains presentations, free lesson plans, and free worksheets for teachers, which can be found at www.saradavila.com.

University Success: Building Readiness for Rigor

Presented by Christina Cavage

How do you bridge the gap that exists between academic readiness, language skills and a low-level English Language Learner? Many of our English Language Learners come to us with minimal language and academic skills. How can we build those skills while minimizing the time it takes? This webinar walks participants through techniques and strategies that build linguistic, cultural and academic skills.

About the Speaker

Christina Cavage

Christina Cavage has served as an ESL Director, Coordinator and Professor. She received her Master’s in TESOL from West Virginia University, and completed a one-year fellowship at Princeton University, where she researched blended learning and English Language Learners. She has trained numerous teachers all over the world in using digital technologies to enhance and extend learning. She has authored over a dozen ELT textbooks, including University Success, Oral Communication, Transition Level, Advanced Level, Intermediate Level and A2. Ms. Cavage has presented at conferences including TESOL, National Education Computing Conference (NECC), and the League for Innovation.

From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Language Learning and the Future of Skills

Presented by Sara Davila

Jobs, the cornerstone of economic and social lives: giving people meaning, self-respect, income and opportunities to contribute to society. Today, there are numerous concerns as structural changes disrupt employment and occupational patterns. These changes create new challenges for educators. In this session, we will examine the research used to uncover the workplace skills of the future and the connection to language education relevant to any teacher working in language education today.

About the Speaker

Sara Davila

Sara Davila is a teacher, teacher trainer and subject matter expert working in applications of research informed practices in the context of language development. She has worked in the US and abroad as a language teacher and learning expert in the field of language acquisition. Her current research is focused on the Global Scale of English and the practical application of developing accelerated, goal oriented learning programs that provide measurable progress. Sara also continues to contribute to the field through her website, which contains presentations, free lesson plans, and free worksheets for teachers, which can be found at www.saradavila.com.

Rivers of Learning: Measuring Success for Teachers and Students

Presented by Dr. Ken Beatty

How do we measure success in the ever-changing river of language learning? For most students, it’s passing a final test. But there are other measures of success. This presentation looks at how success is influenced by three factors: one, teachers’ training, experiences, and passions; learners needs, desires, and ambitions; two, the contexts for teaching and learning; and, three, the materials we use. Success can be measured in how these flow together to reach teachers’ and learners’ goals.

About the Speaker

Ken Beatty

Dr. Ken Beatty, Anaheim University TESOL Professor, has worked in secondary schools and universities in Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America, lecturing on language teaching and computer-assisted language learning from the primary through university levels. He is author/co-author of 77 textbooks for Pearson including Learning English for Academic Purposes, and has given 400+ teacher-training sessions and 100+ conference presentations in 34 countries. He is Series Consultant for StartUp.

Can Pronunciation Be Taught? Theory, Politics, and Practice

Presented by Joan Saslow

Research indicates that relying exclusively on native-speaker models in the teaching of pronunciation may be unrealistic, unnecessary, or even unwise. But there’s very little consensus on an actual approach to pronunciation that enables students to be intelligible, comprehensible, and fluent speakers. This workshop will offer a positive approach to the teaching of pronunciation and demonstrate specific practical activities that lead to better pronunciation.

About the Speaker

Joan Saslow

Joan Saslow is a foreign language teaching specialist and author. She is coauthor with Allen Ascher of a number of prize-winning* best-selling English-language textbook series for adults and teenagers, most recently Pearson’s Top Notch and Summit, now available in third edition.

In addition, Ms. Saslow is author of the Workplace Plus, Ready to Go, and Literacy Plus series, as well as of English in Context: Reading Comprehension for Science and Technology. Earlier, she was series director of True Colors and True Voices.

Ms Saslow is a frequent speaker at international teachers’ conferences and participates in the English Language Specialist Program of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has lived and taught in Chile and is fluent in Spanish.

Ms Saslow has a BA and MA in French from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She and her husband live in Chappaqua, New York, and have two adult children.

*Top Notch and Summit are both recipients of the Association of Educational Publishers’ Distinguished Achievement Award. Top Notch third edition is the 2016 recipient of a Textbook and Academic Authors’ Textbook Excellence Award. Summit third edition is the 2017 winner of the same award.

From Stress to Success: Supporting Rigor in the Transitions Classroom

Presented by Lia Conklin Olson

If ever there were a place for rigor, it is the transitions classroom, the last station along the track to college and career. How do we provide the rigor and support our students need for the journey?  Explore transitions-level methods and materials that move rigor from a source of stress to success!

About the Speaker

Lia Conklin Olson

Lia Olson, PhD, has been an adult ELL instructor and curriculum designer for twenty years and an adjunct professor for the Teaching English as a Foreign Language program at Hamline University or four years.  She is currently the Instructional Design Expert for Future Level 5 Second Edition (Pearson 2020) and a trainer for two OCTAE-sponsored projects, Teaching Skills that Matter in Adult Education and Implementing State-Adopted Challenging Content Standards.  Dr. Olson is the author of the GED Teacher’s Guides Bridging English Language Learners to GED Test Prep (New Readers Press, 2017) and the phonics-based reading series for adult ELLs What’s Next? (New Readers Press, 2013).