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Archive: Previous ETAI Conferences Handouts 2001/08

These handouts are Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .rtf),
PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) or Adobe Reader (.pdf) files.

ETAI Summer Conference - Jerusalem - 2008

English Language Teaching (ELT) Around the World (ppt) - Sandra J. Briggs TESOL Past President

The Importance of Learning Strategies in ELT (ppt) - Sandra J. Briggs

English as a Lingua Franca and Some Implications for English Teachers (ppt) - Penny Ur

The Wonderful World of Wikis Digital Learning in the 21st Century (ppt) - Melissa Weglein and Phylis Goldman

Sing a Song of Sixpence: Authentic Texts for Appreciation of Literature and Culture (doc) - Debbie Toperof

Motivate One Point Students to Aim Higher (pdf) - Judy Dobkins

ETAI Spring Conference- Nazareth Illit - May 2008

Writing: Task to Project: Clarity, Expectations, Format - Ann Shlapobersky

ETAI Spring Conference- Haifa - April 2008

A Hot Approach to Developing Thinking Skills Through Literature - Mimi Yotzer

ETAI Mini-Conference - Yavne - February 17, 2008

The WHs of Web 2.0 - Micki Zaritsky

ETAI Mini-Conference - Maghar - January 24, 2008

Building a Read Aloud for Pleasure Programme - Rachel Duzzy

• From Read Aloud to Reading for Pleasure - a continuum
• Objectives for Reading for Pleasure

Thinking Through Literature: Learning HOTS and Enjoying Literature (ppt)- Maida Nechushtan and Judy Hen

• Incident: Baltimore - Countee Cullen - teacher's edition
• Incident: Baltimore - Countee Cullen - student's edition

ETAI Winter Conference - Beer Sheva - December 6, 2007

Reading Comprehension and Writing Tasks - Dr. Lea Kirshenberg

Variations on a Theme (ppt) - Penny Ur

Using Stories in the Classroom - Debbie Partouche

ETAI Mini-conference Maalot September 4, 2007

Ten Eclectic Lesson Plans (ppt) - Barry Silverberg

Multisensory Spelling Rules (ppt) - Stephanie Fuchs

Insights from Research on Reading (ppt - 3.4MB) - Elisheva Barkon

First lessons (ppt) - Penny Ur

• First lesson (doc)
• More First Lessons ideas (doc)
• Venndia gram idea (doc)

Workshop on Literature Circles (doc) - Dr. Marcia Grayson

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Summer Conference (Jerusalem) July 2007

Infusing Critical Thinking Skills in EFL - Mimi Yotzer

• Summary of Presentation
• Thoughtful Reading
• Handout Typology
• Bank of Techniques
• Bibliography

High Interest, Dynamic Materials/Activities that Energize High School Students - Ronnie Abrams

What Nonsense! - Debbie Toperoff

One in a Million Chance - Ann Shlapobersky

Teaching Students to Take Responsibility for Learning - Aviva Shapiro

Using Video in the EFL Classroom - Adele Raemer

English is Fun with Songs and Games - Kara Aharon

Learning Disabilities Long After School (.ppt)- Brenda Liptz

Communities of Learning, Communities of Teachers: English for Understanding (Creating Language Learning Communities Through Storytelling) - Gail Weinstein (keynote session)

"Have You Heard the One? . . . Communications, Gender, and Jokes" - Karen Love

Wheels of Change in English Teaching - Penny Ur

Workshop: What's in a Name? Putting the principles to work - Gail Weinstein

Handout #1	Handout #5	Handout #9
Handout #2	Handout #6	Handout #10
Handout #3	Handout #7	Handout #11
Handout #4	Handout #8	Handout #12

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Summer Mini-Conference - Hatzor Haglilit - 2007

Simply Writing - Task to Project to Bagrut (.ppt) - Ann Shlapobersky

Writing Activity 1 (.doc)
Writing Activity 2 (.doc)
Writing Activity 3 (.doc)

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Spring Conference (Haifa) March 2007

Vocabulary Acquisition Theory and Practical Applications - Rachel Rifkind
Stop the bus! - Rachel Rifkind

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Winter Conference (Beer Sheva) December 2006

Wheels of Change - Penny Ur

ECB Multimedia in Education - Ann Shlapobersky

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Summer Conference (Jerusalem) July 2006

Text Bank For Diagnosing Reading Levels Of 4th-8th Grade Pupils - Debby Toperoff & Edna Geva

Technicolor Texts: Enhancing Reading Comprehension for NBA using Color
Codes - Noel Ben Dunsky

Technicolor Texts© - The Bottom Line (.doc)
Pictures for teacehers (.ppt)

Writing Across The Curriculum - Beverley Stock

Obstacles and Attitude - Aviva L. Shapiro

Theatre Activity ETAI Summer 2006 - Adele Raemer and Mitzi Gefen

Integrative English and Multiple intelligences - Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)

A Pre-NASA Ripple: Two Or More Wild Multi-Sensory Lesson Plans - Barry Silverberg

Adventure in Drama - Adele Raemer and Mitzi Gefen

How To Handle The Hard-To-Handle Student - Maryln Appelbaum

Understanding Dyslexia (.ppt) - Paula Bernard

SINGLISH: Sing It In English - Leonie Lachmish

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Winter Conference (Haifa) December 27, 2005

How Far Can The Research Help Up With Our Aspirations? - Penny Ur

English Coordinators: Creative and effective strategies to make your job easier - Aviva Shapiro

Integrating Technology into the ESL Classroom - Nellie Deutsch

Student's Can Right If You Give Them a Chance (.ppt) - Ann Shlapobersky

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Summer Conferences (Haifa / Jerusalem) - July 2005

Fun Activities to Start or End Your Lesson - Netti Susman

Celebrate The Seussentenial - Hillary Lavi and Jennifer Spigelman

Music Lyrics as a Foreign Language Learning Tool - Jackie Stein, Cultural Programs Specialist, American Center, Jerusalem

Module E for Very Weak 4 Point Students (reading comprehension) (.pdf) - Naomi Ganin-Epstein

How to Get (even our youngest/weakest) Students Writing - Gaila Cohen Morrison

I found THE PERFECT website, now what do I do - Micki Zaritsky

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International Summer Conference - July 2004

Fifteen years – Ten tenets - Miriam Schlesinger

Mentoring And Action Research Make For Successful Life-Long Learning (.ppt) - Pnina Rosenes & Valerie S. Jakar

JH Students Can Write (.pdf) - Ann Shlapobersky

Fluency as the 'Transportation Mode' Between Spoken and Written Language - Paula Barnard

The A-B-C's of Modules (.pdf)- Ellen Zelenko

Each and Every Child a Reader - Sharon Azaria

I’m an Alien" Teaching English language and culture through song - Laura Shashua

My Mother, My Mother-in-Law - Batya Lederfein

The Textbook and Beyond - Orly Sela and Elaine Coleman

Animal Expressions: Idioms and Proverbs

Projects - Esther Lucas

Doing Improvisation in the Classroom or Whose Line is it, Anyway? - Adele Raemer

Drama Techniques from Whose Line is It Anyway?
Procedure - Warm Ups
Simple Dialogues
Whose Line is it Anyway? (Instructions in Hebrew and English)

Teaching Requirements That Make For Effective Teaching - Avi Tsur

Effective Teaching

An Adventure in Drama - Mitzi Geffen

Putting on a Play in English

The Nitty-Gritty of Summarizing - Batya Medad and David Stahl

How To Make Your Students "A" Readers - Dvora Ben Meir and Janette Segal

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
How to Make your Students "A" Readers
Useful phrases

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Principles in Practice – A Fairy Tales Unit - Fran Sokel

• Fairy Tales - Introduction
• Principles
• Principle # 1 - Whole to Part
• Principle # 3 and #4
• What Do You know About Fairy Tales?
• Make an Activity
• A Jazz Chant - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Dialogues from Fairy Tales (1)
• A Story Task
• Famous Fairy Tales
• Words from Fairy Tales

"The Story behind the Song" - Songs of Struggle and Freedom - Batya Lederfein, Talpiot Teachers’ College

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Using English in Co-existence Projects - Esther Lucas

Games and Game-like activities – Not only for Rainy Days and Young Kids - Margaret Porat (maporat@netvision.net.il)

Doing Improvisation in the Classroom or Whose Line is it, Anyway?
- Adele Raemer

Drama Techniques from Whose Line is It Anyway?
Procedure - Warm Ups
Simple Dialogues
Whose Line is it Anyway? (Instructions in Hebrew and English)

Exercise in WORD for writing projects - Susan Holzman

Let’s Talk Rockwell - Rachel Bar Yosef

Making Repetition Interesting - Penny Ur

Grammar Teaching Revisited - Penny Ur

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Storytelling in the English Classroom - Leslie Cohen

Games and Game-like activities – Not only for Rainy Days and Young Kids - Margaret Porat (maporat@netvision.net.il)

Folksongs-An Expression of our Multi-Cultural Background - Laurie Ornstein

Priorities in Fourth Grade - Penny Ur

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Using the SIOP Model to Plan and Assess Effective Content Based Instruction in an EFL Setting - Arieh Sherris

Deploying the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP Model) for Lesson Planning, Observation, Evaluation and Research in EFL Settings Rationale - Arieh Sherris

Games and Game-like activities – Not only for Rainy Days and Young Kids -
Margaret Porat (maporat@netvision.net.il)

Self Access to Poetry or DIY Poetry Lessons - Adele Raemer

• Introducting Poetry
• Terms Used in Poetry
• Fire and Ice Poem and Worksheet
• Literature is the Question
• Rubric for Poetry Workshoop
• Seven Steps for Reading and Analyzing a Poem
• Poetry Checklist

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Some Solid Suggestions for Successful Lessons - Iris Mandel

• Old Age Project
• Playground Project
• Future Projects (Reflection)
• Beholder Unit Task 1
• Beholder Unit Task 2
• Sample Interview Questions
• How Much Salary is Your Brochure Worth

Online Learning - What's It Like?- Renee Wahl

Getting the most out of your dictionary - Rachel Bar Yosef

Integration of Brain Gym in English lessons for positive attitudes - Judy Arnon

• What is Brain Gym
• Additional handouts (In Hebrew)

What’s So Hard About Hard of Hearing and The Truth About Whether Dyslexics Have More Fnu - Jade Bar-Shalom

• Learning Disabilities and Difficulties as Shaped by Genetic and Environmental Factors
• Continuum of Problems in Processing That Manifest as Dyslexic Reading

Teacher Self-Evaluation - Adele Raemer

• Teacher Standards Observation Worksheets
• Teacher Standards Observation Request Sheet
• Teacher Standard Self Assessment Pages
• Teacher Standard Self Assessment Pages adapted

Update On UNICEF Projects - Esther Lucas

• ISRAEL UNICEF STUDENT DIPLOMA: To the teacher
• ISRAEL UNICEF STUDENT DIPLOMA: To the student
• UNICEF PROJECTS AND THE FOUR DOMAINS
• UNICEF PROJECTS Suggested Assessment

UNICEF Projects - Bronia Kabakovitch

• UNICEF PORTFOLIO 2001-2002 School Year - LOD
• Italian program rationale, objectives and a project
  feedback session form

Backward Designing the Curriculum- Gail Mann

http://www.etni.org.il/ministry/backwarddesign

English In Computerized Environment: Petach Tikva Schools Project 2001-2 -
Gail Shuster-Bouskila, Marlene Erez, Frida Austerman & Micki Zaritsky

Advice Activity - Example of an activity

Using games in the classroom - Margaret Porat

Winter ETAI Happening - 2nd January 2002

Teaching Globalized English - Professor Dov Spolsky

A Performance-based Task: the Use of Surveys in Class - Hanna Jubran

Creative Writing Projects for Heterogeneous High School Classes - Leslie Cohen

Keeping Control in the Classroom: Ten Top Tips - Penny Ur

One Size Fits All Learning: A Thing of the Past - Theresa Zanatta (PowerPoint presentation)

Embracing Learner Styles in EFL Curriculum - Laureen Rabbe and Gail Shuster-Bouskila

Hands on is Minds On! - Theresa Zanatta (PowerPoint presentation)

Using games in the classroom - Margaret Porat

Drama workshop - Mitzi Geffen (I'm very sorry about the inconvenience, but if you click on Edit after opening the handout, and then click on "Edit slide", you will be able to see the handout clearly.)

Building units can be easy - Tsiona Levy

Using a newspaper handout - Jack Pillemer

Motivation and Interest - Penny Ur