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Faculty Meeting and
Workshop Minutes
Meeting Date and Time: July 27, 2013, 10 am to 1:00 pm
Present: Faculty and Staff
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Last |
First |
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Last |
First |
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Agarkova |
Anna |
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Machado |
Maria A. |
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Andryushchenko |
Galyna |
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Manliclic |
Erlinda |
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Arbai |
Jenny |
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Mere-Mere |
Semen |
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Azoidou |
Evdokia |
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Nibeyro |
Enrique |
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Brazhnikova |
Olesya |
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Panganiban |
Nori |
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Bush |
F. Ann |
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Ortiz |
Vicenta |
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Caryn |
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Ramos |
Emiliano C |
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Diaz |
Anna |
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Rodriguez |
E. Karina |
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Diaz-Gladys |
Gladys |
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Rymer |
Ivelisse |
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Dimitrova |
Iliyana |
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Schwenke |
Mark |
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Dolina |
Leonila |
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Schwenke |
Thomas S. |
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Dolina
Ruck |
Loreen |
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Sergeeva |
Svetlana |
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Engulatova |
Dilyara |
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Tagnan |
Benjamin |
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Ergashev |
Anvar |
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TULDANES |
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Ferraro |
Dante |
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Vargas |
Carmen |
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Gogin |
Ilya |
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Vedernikova |
Svetlana |
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Gomez |
Angie |
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Zatulovski |
Irina |
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Grajo |
Libertad |
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Minutes – Topics
Discussed
General Housekeeping: Reviewed the following items –
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Dean Davis would be happy to lead a Saturday
bike trip for all faculty and staff. All interested faculty and staff can
contact her by email at caryn.davis@sai2000.org.
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Dean Davis thanked all faculty and staff for
participating in the TOEIC speaking test this summer.
CEA
Faculty Standard 1 and 3:
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Tamara Kirson, M.Ed, on faculty in the English
Language Studies Program at the New School, teachers professional development
courses for experienced and new educators. She is also the NYS TESOL NYC Region Co-Chair.
Tamara provided faculty and staff with a
two hour interactive workshop on linguistics, focusing on sector analysis as
the basis for X-Word Grammar’s approach to question formation.
The X-Word Grammar approach to grammar is a teaching methodology,
readily used by ESL teachers and learners that can be integrated into the
current NorthStar approach to teaching all levels of ESL at the institute. Thirty on-line post workshop surveys showed
high interest in this methodology and approach to grammar. Therefore,
since Tamara will be facilitating an X-Word Grammar workshop this fall, as well
as other X-Word Grammar workshops on writing at the
Faculty
Standard 1 and 2: Teacher Presentation
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Dr. Leonila Dolina, a long-standing faculty member,
provided faculty and staff with a 20 minute
presentation on one of her passions, spelling rules. Her PowerPoint presentation focused on the
value of spelling and how to integrate spelling rules into the classroom by
using an interactive game for all levels of students.
At 1:00 pm the meeting was adjourned to a the "Idea Exchange" luncheon in the Garden at Barbetta's where informal discussions of the day’s topics continued 'til dusk.
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