Very good ideas.  I will use them in my classes.  I highly recommend your articles on your site.  I've read some of them.  They are a great resource.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Yllorco!

I'm starting a new thread to share things I've learned/got from the Dr. Stephen Krashen's talk on the Natural Approach to Language Acquisition.

EARCOS Weekend Workshop at ISBE, Pattaya

Reading Assessment and Instruction to Support Growing Readers
Presented by: Carrie Ekey

February 13-14, 2009
Friday: 1:30pm – 7:30 pm
Saturday:  8:00 am – 3:15 pm


Reading is a developmental process that is scaffolded with explicit instruction to move from modeled demonstrations to independent use.  Participants will explore the use of informal classroom assessment to evaluate student reading proficiencies.  Strategies for setting up classroom libraries to support independent reading will be shared.  Instructional practices of interactive read aloud, guided reading, and reading conferences focused on comprehension will also be demonstrated. 

Outcomes:
• Understanding student reading proficiencies and assessment strategies to use in evaluating those behaviors
• Understanding text levels to match to student proficiency levels
• Understanding of instructional components of a balanced reading program

Registration deadline:  Friday January 23, 2009

Accommodation:
The International School Eastern Seaboard (ISE) can book workshop participants at the Burapha Golf Hotel, about a 10 minute walk from ISE. Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to reserve a hotel room. The hotel website is http://www.buraphagolfthailand.com/html/hotel.html. The city of Pattaya is a 30-40 minute drive. It is difficult to find transport to ISE from Pattaya as taxis are not readily available.

For more information, visit www.earcos.org

Thanks Madam H!  (It's good that it got in my email).  This is a great help for teachers.  I hope many will register.

Thanks Madam H!  (It's good that it got in my email).  This is a great help for teachers.  I hope many will register.


No probs. Just spread the word around kasi deadline na for registration this Friday!

I have just posted this announcement at Adventist Teachers in Thailand.

Inviting everyone to join the upcoming BTN Conference on "The Student as the Learner" at Bangkok Patana School. Please read the details below:

What: Bangkok Teachers' Network Conference
Where: Bangkok Patana School
          click www.patana.ac.th for location
When: 28th February 2009, Saturday
Cost: 1,200 Baht

There are plenty of topics to choose from which range from ideas exchange sessions to job-a-like discussions to workshops to be presented by our "colleagues" from Bangkok.

For more information about the event, visit http://patana.ac.th/BTNConference2009/default.asp

SEE YOU there folks!

For those of you who wish to avail of great learning opportunities, here are two weekend workshops coming up in Bangkok in the next few months:

September 19-20
New International School of Thailand
Title: Differentiation in the International School Context

November 14 -15
International School Bangkok
Title: Garage Band for Beginners

For more info about these workshops, as well as workshops in other parts of this region, visit the website of EARCOS, East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (www.earcos.org).

Is there a Thai Culture Training coming up for the next few weeks?

Info PLease. Thanks.

interesado ako sa Garage Band for Beginners.



sana included yan ang mga computer software music synthesizers.

hehehe.