Dear all, The mini-ETAI conference at Ohalo will take place next week on Thursday (Jan 28) at 3 PM. Following is the program. Please join us if you can. Best. Dror. ETAI Regional Mini-Conference - in Katzrin Topic: Innovations in Teaching English On: Thursday 28th January, 2010 15.00 -18.15 At: Ohalo College in Katzrin On the agenda: 15.00 -15.30 - Registration - ETAI members - no charge Non-ETAI members - 30 shekels - Browsing around the book exhibition 15.30 -15.45 - Greetings . Prof. Samuel Edelstein, President of Ohalo College . Dr. Dror Abend-David - Head of the English Department . Prof. Penny Ur - Chair of ETAI . Fran Sokel- Inspector of the Northern Region for the Jewish Sector, Israeli Ministry of Education. 15.45-16.45 - Opening Lecture: Prof. Penny Ur Teaching Vocabulary: some insights from the research 16.45- 17.15 - Break - light refreshments, browsing around the book exhibition 17.15- 17.40 - Parallel sessions: . Problems facing Arab students learning English - Dr. Ruwaida Abu Rass (General) . The importance of the three levels of reading for developing reading comprehension - Dr. Yehudit Od-Cohen (General) . Integrating weak readers within the English lesson - Lea Nachmani (Elementary) . Teaching English to pupils having ADHD characteristics - Jackie Teplitz (Elementary) . Online video and audio - Nicola Crowley, British Council (WS - JHS, HS) 17:45-18:15 - Parallel sessions: . The creation of a new B.Ed. program and its planned curriculum - Dr. Dror Abend-David . Using creative writing: a simple poem-writing and fun poem-reading exercise for intermediate to advanced English pupils - Dr. Michael Dekel (JH, HS) . Resources at your fingertips - Nicola Crowley, British council (WS - General) . A Song for Every Occasion ~ Creating your own songs for the ELC, Michelle Kinsbursky (Elementary) . 'Art work: the discussion of various works of famous artists as a pre-reading activity' - Dr. Elaine Gelber (HS) Please let us know if you are planning to attend the conference. Yehudit Od-Cohen yocg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0544621280 Michelle Kinsbusky kins@xxxxxxxxxxx Dr. Dror Abend-David Chair, Program in English Education Ohalo College Lecturer: Tel Aviv Uni.; Bar Ilan; IDC 140 Derech Ramatayim, Apt. 8 Hod HaSharon, 45325 Israel Phone: + (972) 54-8082246; + (972) 77-3211955 e-mail: d.abend.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------