Session 2 Workshops

Session 2 Workshops 10:50-11:30am

1. Strategically Planning for Translanguaging (LeChase 103)

Rush Henrietta Central Schools District

Translanguaging has quickly become a buzzword but with research focusing more on the pedagogy, professionals can find it difficult to pin down strategies and impact. In this session, you will learn the effects promoting translanguaging can have for students and how to harness its potential in teaching and professional growth.

2. Understanding Feedback in Journal Reviews: Practical Experience (LeChase 104)

Ibrahim Fidan (ifidan@u.rochester.edu)

Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

This workshop will provide a short overview of the research literature on feedback, particularly in referees’ reports, an occluded genre. After analyzing one manuscript’s reviews, participants will discuss their insights. Workshop will explore structural constructs in providing feedback and enhance participants’ understanding of feedback in the writing process.

3. Class on the Go: Engaging and Relevant Digital Language Learning (LeChase 148)

Mark Romig, Dinara Yeung Gilmanova, & Raju Srinivasan (markromig93@gmail.com)

English TALK (Teaching Accessible Language Knowledge)

In this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to the technical and pedagogical processes of creating online English language instructional videos, such as video and audio recording equipment, video editing software, lesson scripting, and content selection. Participants will then have the opportunity to practice creating mini-instructional videos based on prompts.

4. Digitally Motivating Our ESL Students in Online and Hybrid Classes (LeChase 160)

John Bandman (johnbandman@yahoo.com)

CUNY Hunter College, New York

The presenter has overcome challenges in online and hybrid ESL classes that will be shared through active learning tasks. This workshop demonstrates ways to enrich the digital classroom that features student-directed instruction that aligns with program learning outcomes set forth in both college and grade school settings.

5. How Feedback Works with New Digital Age (LeChase 161)

Ali Safivand (asafivan@u.rochester.edu)

University of Rochester

The workshop is going to address the types of feedback new digital age generation receives from and gives to a diverse group of educators and learners, respectively. The workshop is going to touch on some effective strategies educators can implement in order to scaffold the new digital learners’ performance and interactions in online and face to face educational settings.

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