Adult ESL Training Videos

The Adult ESL Training Video Project shows classes and teachers in action, demonstrating a variety of teaching approaches. The videos can be used for training by individuals, organizations that offer adult ESL programs, and educational institutions. Filming of the first two videos took place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Alexandria, Virginia, during October 2009. Six more videos will follow later in 2010 (see outline of series). The project team includes ESL consultants Betsy Parrish and MaryAnn Florez, with video production by Federico Muchnik.

The first two videos in the series:

• Lesson Planning for Life Skills, with Betsy Lindeman Wong of Alexandria, Virginia, who guides beginning level learners through highly structured to open-ended activities, showing the progression of a life-skills lesson in talking on the telephone.
• Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers, with Andrea Echelberger of Saint Paul, Minnesota, who works with a Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy, using a learner-generated story of a shared experience and demonstrating activities to develop beginning literacy skills.