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Breakfast With TESOL’s Best

Start your day with a traditional New Orleans beignet and Chicory coffee, and gather with a small, casual group of colleagues to discuss a current topic of interest with a leading TESOL expert.

Tickets to Breakfast With TESOL’s Best cost $40 each. A continental breakfast is provided. Each breakfast topic is limited to nine attendees. Breakfasts will take place 7:30 am–8:15 am Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel. Tickets are not transferable and are only valid for the breakfast session printed on each ticket.

Tickets to Breakfast With TESOL’s Best that are not sold can be purchased on-site at the TESOL registration desk. These breakfasts sell out quickly, so register early.

Thursday, March 17

Session#

Presenter

Topic

47

Michelle Bell

Using a Content-Based Approach for Academic English Instruction

48

Jane Hoelker

How Do Teachers Know What to Do?

49

Greg Kessler

Promoting Collaboration and Autonomy Through Computer-Assisted Language Learning

51

Rachel Wood

Teaching and Assessing Academic and Content-Based Vocabulary

52

Johnette Downing

Using Music in the Elementary Classroom to Teach Language

53

Thomas Orr

Creative New Ideas for Improving Yourself Professionally

54

Beverly Derewianka

Using Functional Grammar in the Classroom


Friday, March 18

Session#

Presenter

Topic

56

Betty Ansin Smallwood

Effective ESL Program Models, K–8: Findings From TESOL's 2010 Survey

57

Margarita Calderon

Teaching Vocabulary Before, During, and After Reading

59

Amy Schlessman

Exploring Assessment of ELL/ESL Innovation and Creativity

60

Tom Schroeder

Myers-Briggs Type Indicators and Learning Styles

61

Walt Wolfram

Incorporating Dialect Diversity in TESOL

62

Thomas Orr

Improving Yourself Professionally in English for Science and Technology

Saturday, March 19

Session#

Presenter

Topic

65

Judie Haynes

Strategies for Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas

66

Ke Xu

China's Educational System and Its Foreign Language Education Policy

67

Janet Zadina

Using Brain Research to Enhance and Energize Language Instruction

68

Thomas Orr

Improving Yourself Professionally in Program Administration

69

Helen Fraser

Teaching Pronunciation: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

70

Effie Papatzikou Cochran

Forensic Linguistics