How to Use Google Drive
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G Suite Learning Center: With Google Drive, you can upload and store all of your files online. You can then share these files with your team and access them from any computer, smartphone, or tablet. Community Impact highly recommends that all volunteers create a Gmail account, which will facilitate your access to the shared folders and documents that are crucial to communication with your colleagues as well as the staff. |
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Communicate with your students using Remind
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Learn how to use Remind to send out text message blasts to communicate with your students. Remind gives you a safe, quick, and user-friendly way to text students. Your students won't have your phone number or see other students' numbers. Watch the tutorial to the left. Click here to sign up for free. |
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Links to Other Resources
In order to make this site more easily navigable, we've moved our links to other resources to this page, where you're invited to rate and comment on each of the sites. We welcome your feedback to help us & your colleagues identify the most useful sites & those most relevant to our participants.
If you prefer the list format to explore other resources, click here.
If you prefer the list format to explore other resources, click here.
Professional Development Sites
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Click here for links to free professional development sites. Or for easy browsing of and direct links to selected online professional development videos & PowerPoint presentations, click on the image to the right. |
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Best Practices in Brief
In the ESOL and adult education fields, we throw around a lot of acronyms and buzz words, like formative assessment, TPR, differentiated instruction, WIPPEA, etc. Click here to learn more about or refresh your memory of the latest trends in best practice.
Websites That May Be Integrated in the Curriculum
One way to integrate technology in the classroom and to enhance our students' digital literacy is to explore websites with information related to the themes addressed in our lessons. Click on the buttons below to find online resources and information relevant to our students' daily lives. Access to these pages is also provided on the ESOL Student Resources page.
Using We Are New York in the classroom
*** We Are NY is now We Speak NYC, and there is a whole new season of videos. Click here to learn more.***
Study guides, low-level readers, and vocabulary lists are available for each of the ten episodes here and here. Also useful are the Volunteer Facilitator Guide and the Conversation Guide Reference.
Use the image bank to conduct problem-posing activities. Learn more about this technique in "Redefining Civics Education Through Problem Posing" by Hillary Gardner. The five questions of problem-posing are
You can also find complete lesson plans and other materials to accompany individual episodes, for both low-level & intermediate-level students, on topics such as health, education, and student leadership. Direct links to the videos can be found on our ESOL Student Resources page.
Use the image bank to conduct problem-posing activities. Learn more about this technique in "Redefining Civics Education Through Problem Posing" by Hillary Gardner. The five questions of problem-posing are
- What do you see?
- What problem do you see?
- What do you think are some causes of this problem?
- Does this problem relate to your life?
- What are some possible solutions for this problem?
You can also find complete lesson plans and other materials to accompany individual episodes, for both low-level & intermediate-level students, on topics such as health, education, and student leadership. Direct links to the videos can be found on our ESOL Student Resources page.
***You can now watch episodes of We Speak NYC on television: every Sunday at 3:30pm on NYCTV (channel 25).***
National Center for Families Learning advances literacy and education by developing, implementing, and documenting innovative and promising intergenerational strategies.
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"A Day at Dollar General: Learn While Shopping" is an online interactive game that makes it fun and educational for both children and parents to learn basic budgeting skills. The easy-to-use game helps families start the conversation about money management and is a great tool for parents and children to learn together about how to make smart choices with money. Through the virtual experience of shopping in a Dollar General store, families will learn how to budget, plan a shopping trip, spend wisely and manage money. |
Yes, Chef from the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs
A multi-lesson study guide designed to accompany the reading of the memoir by chef Marcus Samuelsson, offering activities on the themes of hospitality & food, education & training, career exploration, and sociology & immigration. Some components can be used independently of the memoir or used to introduce shorter extracts of the book. Developed under the auspices of the NYSED CUNY Common Core Institute.
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