The third Saturday in October has been one of my favorite days of the year because it is a day of professional rejuvenation for me. I am talking about the day for our annual San Diego Regional CATESOL Conference. This year, the day is just around the corner, namely, this Saturday, 10/20.
The theme for this year's conference is "Learning IN English: Content-Based Instruction." The keynote speaker is Frank Noji, a professor at Kapiolani Community College in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he teaches and coordinates the ESOL program. Presently, he is serving as chair of the Languages, Linguistics and Literature Department at Kapiolani Community College and is responsible for developing an ESL teacher-training certificate program. He taught in the Philippines and Japan as well as in public middle school and high school in Hawaii. He designed and developed the sustained content program in 1997 for Kapiolani Community College. Since 1997, he has done classroom-oriented research to make modifications on the curriculum. Recently, he has introduced the Opportunities model to the program and is presently introducing purposefulness into content-based instruction.
If you wish to network, to check out promising summer textbooks, and/or to learn new strategies and innovative ideas for your classroom, then you will do no wrong by heading down to Southwestern College in Chula Vista this Saturday and spending a fruitful day there.
Click here for the conference flyer with the day's schedule. Click here for a partial list of the presentations.
Hope to see you all at the conference!
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