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HOW IS MADMAC'S WORKSHOP
UNIQUE?
Because it covers:
Native born and recent
immigrant students
English dominant, second
dialect students as well as Spanish dominant ESL students
Literacy skills as well as oral
language skills
Academic English skills as well
as socially appropriate language skills
The "affective domain" because
MADMAC is engaging, interactive, humorous and quite nearly insane,
besides they wear funny hats.
WHY ATTEND A MADMAC INSERVICE?
Because of burnout and
frustration with traditional English instruction
Because MADMAC will recharge
your view of the classroom
Because of the demographic
changes in your student population
Because every other workshop
invites YAWNS!
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM
MADMAC:
A coherent organizational
approach from awareness to skill development based on the
successful Montano-Harmon organization mode. This includes
successful teaching strategies which incorporate the principles of
active involvement, validation and guidance for students who
function in a nonstandard dialect of English
Strategies to develop skills in
academic English across the curriculum from various area of
research and practice, including:
1. Teaching academic English as
a second dialect
2. Developing vocabulary skills in content area classrooms
3. Increasing comprehension of content in class readings and
lectures
4. Developing literacy across the curriculum
5. Sheltered instruction for teaching in the content area
6. Successful cooperative learning structures
7. Using concepts of contrastive rhetoric to teach composition
skills
8. Using theory and practice from "brain based" research in
education and information retention |
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