The Current Status •Going into the 6 session of teaching (Spring, Summer, Fall)

•Offering one-on-one tutoring, teaching, and extra-curricular activities

•In search of leadership for sustainability of the program

•A variety of ways to get involved: fundraising, general volunteering, curriculum development, blog writing, marketing, language program administration. It can truly be your experience

•Perhaps you are interested in Computer/Digital Literacy development? MPC Tech-volunteers will be there too, and there are opportunities through the Seaside Library.

•Finally, you may be interested in community based education, serving on the Board of Directors… so many options and wonderful connections to Monterey community.

A Unifying Theme for Your StudiesLinguistics

• 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

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

o A context for the Kumar Trade Fair project• Assessment - Creating an original assessment • Curriculum - Revisiting our project and expanding/improving/detailing further. • Practicum - Doing your hours! • 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 • Marketing Management - Creating a marketing plan • 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 oursTHE LIST GOES ON !!! Perhaps maybe publishing for a journal? Presenting at a conference?

Getting Involved 9/17/2012 – 12/9/2012

• Please check out the “I’m Interested” form online. http://peacecenteresl.wordpress.com/get-involved/

• Contact us: o Yinghua Cai: ycai@miis.eduo Ariana Van Beurden: arianavanb@gmail.como Heidi Laidemitt: heidilaide@gmail.com