The Why and How of Enticing Them to Write

The Why and How of Enticing Them to Write Makif AMIT Beer Sheva Please see below for directions to the school.

Schedule:

9:15 – 10:00 Registration and browsing around the materials exhibition Materials 10:00 – 10:10 Greetings: Mitzi Geffen – Conference Convener and former ETAI Chairperson exhibition Shirley Burg – Regional Inspector open all day. Don’t miss it 10:10 – 10:25 British Council 11:15 – 12:45 Special Workshop for ETAI 10:25- 10:40 Francine Shema Members Hot drinks and 10:40 – 11:15 Break for browsing and coffee Ways of Engaging and Inspiring our Student Writers cakes 11:15 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions I provided by Dr. Judith Oster, Professor Emerita of English and ETAI 12:05 – 12:50 Parallel Sessions II former director of composition (Case Western Reserve University) 12:50 – 13:45 Lunch break and browsing SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION ABOUT Sandwiches 13:45– 14:45 Parallel Sessions III THE WORKSHOP and other great snacks 14:45 – 15:15 Break for browsing and coffee available for 15:15 – 16:00 Plenary Talk: Prof. Penny Ur, OBE sale at the school kiosk. 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em': Uses and abuses of SMS texting in the classroom"

16.00 – 16.15 Raffle! See you next year!

Registration and conference fees Call the ETAI Office 02-5001844

th You are kindly requested to wear ETAI members: 35 NIS by November 27 to pre-register and get 5 NIS off the conference your name tags throughout the day; Non-members: 75 NIS fee people without tags will be denied entrance to sessions. Students: 30 NIS ETAI does not take responsibility for Presenters: 25 NIS Groups of 20 or more students must contact the ETAI Office and preregister the content of the presentations or Non-member retirees: 50 NIS by November 27 th , 2013 (02-5001844) materials presented at the in order to get a group discount. conference. Pre-registered student groups: 25 NIS

Many thanks to: Conference Kits: English Adventure, Sunfish, Brainpop, WizKids, ECB Raffle Donations: Sunfish, WizKids, Brainpop, English is Fun, Gamelish, and English Club, ECB, TESOL

Abbreviation Key Program E = Elementary School HS = High School TE = Teacher Education C/U = College/University JH = Junior High School G = General A = Adult Education C = Commercial 10:00 – 10:40 Greetings and Talks 10:00 – 10:10 Mitzi Geffen – Conference Convener and former ETAI Chairperson Shirley Burg – Regional Inspector 10:10 – 10:25 British Council Introducing the 'Routes to Excellence" program 10:25- 10:40 Francine Widerker , Shema "How to Help the Hard of Hearing"

Parallel Sessions I 11:15 – 12:00 Room Judith Oster – Ways of Engaging and Inspiring our Student Writers In this exciting workshop you will experience creative and innovative ways to get your Workshop students writing. You will acquire a wealth of enriching ideas to inspire and engage students at all ages to put their pen to paper and produce! G This is a special workshop for ETAI members and finishes at 12:45 Nicola Crowley, British Council - Flippin' Writing (1.5 hour workshop) Workshop The flipped classroom is the latest approach that everyone is talking about it. This G interactive workshop will explore resources and tools for flipping your classroom and getting the most out of classroom time and homework to help students develop their writing skills. Yael Lean Aharon and Kaye King Yaa'ari -Get Wired: Collaboration in the Digital Workshop Classroom (1.5 hour workshop) E Digital technology gives teachers and students new ways to communicate with and understand the world around us. This is especially true of writing—students can collaborate on, revise, and respond to writing tasks in real time. Join The Detectives in our Skype classroom for a mysterious and exciting collaborative workshop! Segev Miller Rachel - Writing between the lines: Intertextuality in the English Workshop literature class (1.5 hour workshop) HS G A text has been defined as composed of "pieces" from other previous texts (Kristeva, 1969). Writing from multiple texts is a common school task, but it is cognitively demanding. The purpose of the present workshop is to suggest a methodology based on research-validated strategies for teaching the performance of the task. Laura Major - The possibilities and potential in writing poetry in L2 In this presentation I shall present my findings following a Creative Writing course that I Lecture taught online at a Teacher Training College. I used the online platform - Protaganize- and the results were amazing. I shall present the rationale for teaching creative writing TE in L2 to student teachers, the advantages of the online platform and examples from the course. Rivka Jaffi - How does it get from the eyes and ears to the fingers? We teach our students to read, to listen and all the grammar rules. We play games and Lecture sing songs. We get them to write essays and book reports, but the results are often disappointing. So, how DOES it get from the eyes and ears to the fingers? JH HS Michele Horowitz - Flat Stanley and Stella: A Differentiated Writing Project The Flat Stanley/Stella Writing Project motivates students to write cooperatively and Lecture collaboratively. Through their own creative thinking, pupils improve their vocabulary E and writing skills. Encouraged to incorporate a variety of technological skills, this project culminates in the creation of a Flat Stanley / Flat Stella blog, story book, or website. Lea Doryoseph - Writing with No Wrong Answers Lecture Remove the pressure, separate writing from editing, take away the grades and HS judgments to let the ideas flow. David L. Young - Write for yourself and own a Lamborghini! Writing doesn't necessarily have to be a classroom activity. Why not write for yourself Lecture and if you're lucky, earn some money via your pen or computer! This lecture by an English teacher and author of 13 published novels will show you how. G See website: dly-books.weebly.com Parallel Sessions II 12:05 – 12:50 Room Fern Levitt - The English Club: Teach reading and writing using iPhone iPad iPodTouch The English Club follows the Hickey Method of teaching English reading, writing, spelling and comprehension for beginning and struggling English learners. Mobile Lecture devices can be hooked up to Barco projectors for classroom and small group use, or C G learners can use individual devices. Tap in to learners' interest in 21st Century technology to teach basic English literacy skills! Kara Aharon - Rap Up Your Lessons Rhythm is contagious. Setting your lessons to a catchy rhythm improves Workshop pronunciation, makes language chunks easier to remember and most important, kids love it! Learn to create chants suitable for all ages and subjects. Once your students G become "rappers" the whole class becomes involved in the lesson. Shiri Rosenberg, BrainPOP - All Write Right Away Students today enjoy writing text messages and mail, but how can we help them make Workshop the transition to writing essays? we'll bring ideas from the field with the help of BrainPOP ESL's writing program that guides students carefully and methodically from C short notes, letters and diary entries to five-paragraph essays. We help them all write away and feel all right about it. Orley Marron - Murder in the Classroom - Logging Detective Mysteries Lecture The popular detective mystery genre is loved by pupils and adults alike. “The HS Adventure of the Speckled Band” – a Sherlock Holmes mystery - makes for a fantastic log piece that introduces the detective genre and encourages creative yet methodical writing. The log unit will be provided in handouts. Shirley Burg- Combining Reading, Language and Writing Lecture The ability to understand and plan goals which reflect the standards of the English E Curriculum, planning and executing differential teaching and integrating HOTS in the elementary school English lessons are three major issues which will be addressed in this talk. Ideas and suggestions for better practices will be presented. Jennifer Hoyzman - Adding Fun to English This is a presentation that will provide teachers of all grades with practical ideas of Lecture how to get pupils excited about learning English. Soon all schools will be part of the new educational reform and teachers will have mandatory teaching hours added to G their schedules. This presentation will provide ideas for the teachers to liven up their lessons and teaching. Some ideas that will be discussed are readers theater, a spelling bee, creating blogs/ newspapers, and videos. 12:50 – 13:45 Lunch Break and Browsing Great lunch choices available at the school kiosk

Parallel Sessions III 13:45 – 14:45 Room Dr. Lea Kirshenberg- Combining Reading, Language and Writing Lecture Integrating Domains: Reading Comprehension, Language and Writing. HS Developing a writing process based on a text and using the written text for language review. Maizie Avihayil- If I Can Do It So Can You! I will show how I have integrated various web 2.0 tools into my lessons. I will be using Lecture projects created by my students as examples of what they can achieve. I will also give links to sites that explain how to use many different tools easily - step by step. G Lastly I will introduce participants to my Professional/ Personal learning networks and show how many different ways I learn about new tools and trends. Bev Stock - Enticing students to write V correction You have enticed your students to write. What do you do next? Correct? Read it Lecture only? Nothing? Come to this session to share ideas and explore the correction process. G Jack Pillimer and Karen Abel - Time to Know what is happening in 170 schools Lecture in Israel E C If you haven't yet heard about Time to Know, then now is the time. Digital teaching platform but blended learning. Set curriculum but modular and open to additions. Differentiated levels including English speakers. Real time qualitative monitoring of student performance. Tests. Adaptive Vocabulary learning. Oh so much! See you there. Rose Whitman - Me-Moi- all about me Workshop Sharing the experience of building writing confidence through diary style exercises. JHS Leo Selivan - L2 writing: from grammatical mistakes to lexical opportunities Workshop When marking students' writing, teachers are naturally drawn to mistakes in G grammar. However, very often a grammar mistake masks a gap in learners' vocabulary knowledge. We will explore how error correction can be given a more lexical focus and how a more integrated approach to reading and vocabulary can stimulate better lexical production in writing. Ann Shlapobersky - Make Writing Their Own They sms, chat and email, but ask them to write a simple sentence in English… NO! In this talk we will discuss why students fear writing in English and how, by guiding Lecture our students through writing activities online and off, we can increase their interest in E JH HS expressing themselves through writing. Jane Cohen, British Council - Think! Write! This writing workshop explores how teachers can help their learners to become better Workshop writers using a process approach to teaching writing. Through the incorporation of a few simple thinking routines, and Web 2.0 tools, teachers will learn how to engage G even the most reluctant authors to put pen to paper. Adele Raemer- Do You Write Google? Workshop Use Google tools to engage your pupils in exciting, stimulating and authentic writing G experiences. Amanda Caplan - A Recipe for Writing Lecture A variation on writing journals: the pupils write, the teacher spends her life checking them. Here is a recipe to achieve the former, without the latter. JH HS 14:45 – 15:15 Break and Browsing

15:15 – 16:00 Plenary Talk: Prof. Penny Ur, OBE 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em': Uses and abuses of SMS texting in the classroom" Conventionally, SMS texting is assumed to have a bad influence on learners' writing: but this is not necessarily true. Anyhow, it's here to stay. So on the principle of 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em', this presentation will look at some ways to use texting in the classroom to raise awareness of the genre and improve our students' writing. 16:00 – 16:15 Raffle – Win a great prize! Games, books and TESOL memberships. We wish you an enjoyable and fruitful conference! Conference Conveners: Mitzi Geffen and Michele Ben

Mark your Calendars! Don't miss it! July 8th – 9th, 2014 ETAI National Summer Conference Music, Mime, Movies and More! The Academy High School Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus See you there!

ETAI – For a Lifetime of Professional Development Special Workshop for ETAI Members

Pre-register for the Winter Conference in Beer Sheva and sign up for a special workshop

"Ways of Engaging and Inspiring our Student Writers"

Given by Dr. Judith Oster, Professor Emerita of English and former director of composition at Case Western Reserve University

In this exciting workshop you will experience creative and innovative ways to get your students writing. You will acquire a wealth of enriching ideas to inspire and engage students at all ages to put their pen to paper and produce! Space is limited to 12 participants.

Dr. Judith Oster, Professor Emerita of English and former director of composition (Case Western Reserve University) is author of From Reading to Writing, a composition textbook for advanced ESL/EFL students. In addition to the USA, she has spoken in Israel, Malaysia, China, France, Greece, Spain, England. She has also authored Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet, and Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature.

Directions to Makif AMIT Beer Sheva: מקיף אמי"ת באר שבע רחוב יהודה הלוי 95 באר שבע טלפון 08-6414403 Yehuda HaLevi 95 Beer Sheva Tel. 08-641-4403 Directions for public transportation: Take the train or the bus to Beer Sheva. The central bus station and and main train station (not the university stop) are right next to each other. From there you can take a #6 bus which stops in front of the school. The bus fare is 4.70 NIS. A cab costs approximately 30 NIS.

Driving from the North: Take route 406 towards Beer Sheva. At the entrance of Beer Sheva -take the very first right turn on to Hatzadik M'yerushalayim. At the second circle, turn left on to Yehuda HaLevi. (If you've made the correct turn, Kay College will be on your right). After the turn, go straight on Yehuda Halevi for two blocks – straight through one traffic circle and then one regular intersection (Yaakov Dori St.) continue straight for half a block and the school will be on your right. There is parking on the street, in the school parking lot, and also in a parking lot across the street from the school. From the West: Take route 25 to Beer Sheva. Turn left onto Etzel St. (There is a green sign indicating that you go that way to go to Tel Aviv). Drive for about 5 minutes until you reach the traffic circle at Kaye College. Turn left onto Yehuda Halevi Street. Drive straight on Yehuda Halevi St. through one traffic circle and one traffic light, and then see the school on your right. From the South: Come into Beer Sheva on route 406 which becomes Derech Tuviahu. Pass the Negev Mall and turn right on Derech Meshachrerim (the second traffic light after you pass the mall). Drive straight on Derech Meshachrerim – past the stadium and across metzada St. where it becomes Yehuda Halevi St. Drive on Yehuda Halevi St. through one traffic circle and then one traffic light. After another block, the school will be on your left. http://goo.gl/maps/CTtRV