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TESOL Virtual Seminars - Key Issues in ESL: May 2, 2007
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Assessment and Learning: Balancing Program Performance and Instruction
Toni Borge
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
3:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST
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Assessment and Learning: Balancing Program Performance and Instruction
Adult ESL programs must demonstrate that learners have met both national (NRS Educational Functioning Levels) and state proficiency levels. While meeting the required program performance benchmarks, these programs also must allow instructors’ to teach to their students needs. The presenter will discuss effective ways to manage and balance instruction to meet state and national performance standards.
In this seminar participants will receive
Who should attend? Adult ESL administrators and teachers.
Toni Borge is the director of the Adult Education & Transitions Program at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She has a master’s degree in educational administration. Toni is a member of the TESOL task force that is advising the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Citizenship, on redesigning the citizenship test that is being piloted in 2007. She has served on the TESOL Professional Development Committee for the past 6 years. She received the 2002 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development award for excellence in teaching and leadership.
