AGENDA

Faculty and Staff Meeting and Workshop

December 10, 2005

Faculty Meeting: 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m

1. President

• Welcome
• Reports and updates

2. Chairperson and Other Faculty Reports

• Business Chair
• Computer Chair
• English Chair
• Other Faculty

3. Dean of Academic Affairs

• Student Club Monthly Newsletter and Cultural Activities
• Bulletin Boards
• Revised Classroom Observation Forms
• Finalizing 2005 Faculty Evaluation Reports and Preparing for 2006 Classroom Observations and Evaluations
• Video Use and WorldView/NorthStar Video Activity Sheets
• SLEP Testing

Break: 11:00-11:15

Workshop: Targeting Higher Order Language Skills in All ESL Levels.

Target higher order target language skills include making inferences, identifying and using main ideas and details, skimming and scanning, note taking, using context clues, summarizing, paraphrasing, identifying and using rhetorical structures, comparing and contrasting, identifying and using cohesive devices, etc. The workshop will focus on how integrating reading, writing, listening, and speaking in all ESL levels help develop higher order language skills.

Question Path from January, 2005 Workshop (Review): “Developing Student Reading Skills in ESL and Program Courses”

1. When should students read aloud—and when should they not?

2. When should students be allowed to use dictionaries in class--and when should they not?

3. Why are the following considered distinctive reading skills? How can they be taught?

· skimming and scanning,

· predicting,

· inferring meaning,

· identifying main ideas,

· understanding vocabulary from context,

· learning new vocabulary,

· identifying details?

4. In what order should the above skills be used in approaching a new reading passage?

5. How can the method NorthStar uses to teach listening be applied to reading in all courses (including program courses)?

6. How should the audio CD professionally recorded reading passages be used with the NorthStar Reading and Writing texts?

7. How can the Keyboarding teacher help students with reading comprehension? the Accounting teacher? the Computer teacher? Others?