The Beginning - January 2011 • Stefani Mistretta, Yulia, Heidi • Quickly expanded to more people teaching! 

Spring 2011 • Our group formulated in Curriculum Design. • Teaching continued 

Summer 2011• Classes expanded to 6 per week (staying this way)• Feels more unified. More direction. Obviously, still need

for improvement and funding

Fall 2011! Now.. and the future… • Creating a pathway in our MIIS experience • Defining our roles (Sarah, Caroline, Audrey, Jaymee,

Heidi, teachers, staff!) • Teaching resumes on 9/12 with a bilingual computer

accompaniment at Seaside Library 

Our ExperienceSarah • TEDx Monterey!

Developing our story and our vision for the future to share with the local community and beyond.

• Networking: Connecting and REconnecting with members of the MIIS community, PRC board of directors, and my Alma Mater!

• A unique graduate school experience! One in which I have the ability to experiment with teaching techniques, as well as gain experience in many aspects of language program administration.

Heidi• Invaluable connection to the

community• Sense of direction and

passion in my TESOL studies 

• Connections with the community: Board members, libraries, donors, teachers. 

• A wonderful birthday celebration and new friends! 

• A very different teaching experience: unpredictable, personal, challenging, spontaneous, life-changing.

• Whole new perspective on language learning, investment, identity. 

Linguistics• Sociolinguistics - Collecting data at the Center for original research project • Structure of English - Creating a lesson plan for our demographic• ALR - Original research project in our setting (in the works for Heidi) 

Education• Educational Research - Proposal • Observation - Doing your observations! (Spring 2011) • Principles & Practice - Applying your ideas to an adult ESL setting like this

oneo A context for the Kumar Trade Fair project

• Assessment - Creating an original assessment (Audrey and Heidi) • Curriculum - Revisiting our project (Spring 2011) and

expanding/improving/detailing further. • Practicum - Doing your hours! (Jaymee, Derek, Heidi, Sarah, and more!) • Teaching of Speaking/Writing/Reading - Centering your foci on low-literate

adult learners LPA

• Language Teacher Supervision - Observation Projects • Language Teacher Education - Creating a Workshop for our teachers • Intro to LPA - Gaining experience as program leaders (Sarah, Heidi) • Marketing Management - Creating a marketing plan (Sarah, Heidi) • In general: professional development (teacher's meetings, work with staff,

board, networking, gathering supplies and ideas at conferences...)CALL 

• Project Based Learning - Creating resources for low-computer literate adults like ours

THE LIST GOES ON !!!

A Unifying Theme for Your Studies

Observation Procedure

https://sites.google.com/site/educ8520eslpeacecenter/

• To be posted online! 

• Please contact individual teachers (their contact information will be made available on the schedule). Be aware that sometimes we have to be flexible, we teach in front (more space) or back (less space!) 

Getting Involved 

• We are going to make an "I'm interested form" on our google site. 

• We may need help with: teaching, assisting as a tutor, fundraising, further curriculum analysis and development, teacher workshops, needs analyses, be creative! 

• Contact us: o Sarah DeMola: sdemola@miis.eduo Heidi Laidemitt: heidilaide@gmail.como Stefani Mistretta: smistretta@miis.edu