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SUMMARY:Break It Down! Key Principles for Teaching Beginne
 rs
DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \n Break It Down! Key Principles for Tea
 ching Beginners\n \n \n Friday\, October 16\, 2026
 \n \n 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (online via Zoom)\n \n \n 
 \n In this workshop\, teachers will acquire a few 
 key principles that make teaching beginners more e
 ffective: giving multimodal directions\, breaking 
 tasks into achievable pieces\, narrowing the focus
  to reduce cognitive load in reading and listening
 \, and providing scaffolds to support oral and wri
 tten communication. Participants will learn how th
 ese principles apply to teaching speaking\, listen
 ing\, reading\, writing\, pronunciation\, and voca
 bulary\, and will leave with many activity ideas f
 or teaching that cater to beginner English learner
 s. Veteran teachers will learn new activity ideas 
 that incorporate these principles.\n \n \n \n Work
 shop Learning Objectives:\n \n \n \n \n 	\n 	Devel
 op authentic speaking activities such as info gaps
  and mingle activities that support fluency throug
 h repetition and the need to communicate\n \n \n 	
 \n 	\n 	Identify and teach the importance of word 
 and sentence stress to improve speaking and listen
 ing\n \n \n 	\n 	\n 	Give effective\, focused feed
 back on writing that does not overwhelm learners\n
  \n \n 	\n 	\n 	Use translanguaging and Google Tra
 nslate to leverage students’ L1 in teaching writin
 g\n \n \n 	\n 	\n 	Amplify and chunk text to suppo
 rt reading comprehension\n \n \n 	\n 	\n 	Help lea
 rners set a purpose for reading and listening\n \n
  \n 	\n 	\n 	Use multimodal instruction to give di
 rections and teach vocabulary\n \n \n 	\n \n \n Pr
 esenter:\n \n \n \n Brendon Albertson is an Englis
 h language educator who has taught in adult\, coll
 ege\, and K-12 contexts over 17 years. His student
 s have included adult immigrants\, international c
 ollege students\, high school students in China\, 
 and kindergarteners and business professionals in 
 Japan. His other experience includes leading adult
  ESOL programs\, curriculum design\, developing ed
 ucational apps\, teacher training\, and academic r
 esearch involving student participation and the us
 e of technology for language learning. Brendon spe
 aks Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.\n \n \n \n Mico
 credential Categories:\n \n \n \n \n 	Fundamental 
 Skills (F)\n \n \n This workshop is free to staff 
 of all Massachusetts non-profit ABE and ESOL Progr
 ams.\n \n \n \n First Literacy does not receive an
 y state or federal funding and we work very hard t
 o raise 100% of our budget from private sources. P
 lease consider making a donation to First Literacy
  (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hos
 ted_button_id=97JN8KZLRVMXQ&source=url) so we can 
 continue to offer FREE high quality professional d
 evelopment workshops.\n \n 
CATEGORIES:Workshop
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
TZID:America/New_York
DTSTAMP;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T130000
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T150000
LOCATION:Online workshop via Zoom \n 
URL:https://nb.firstliteracy.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=480
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