Practicing Multiliteracies Theory in the Adult Literacy Classroom

Description

• Do you feel stuck between what your literacy learners want, what the curriculum demands, and your own values as an educator?
• Do you attend webinars, workshops, and professional development and leave wondering how the principles you learn apply to your work with adult literacy learners?
• Do you desire engaging activities to support your work with literacy learners but feel stuck doing the same routines?

If so, join us for this webinar. The presenter will draw on her personal experiences as an educator and her recent thesis project to explore the complexities of bringing new ways of teaching and learning into adult literacy classrooms. Explore together how multiliteracies theory invites us to think about literacy education differently, while still honouring our values, learners’ needs, and curriculum expectations.

By the end of this webinar, educators will:

• have an opportunity to understand the benefits of multiliteracies theory for their own activities and curriculum development,
• be given three examples of multiliteracies informed activities to use in their practices, and
• will be encouraged to collaborate with one another to bridge the theory/practice divide.

Webinar Type: Teaching Best Practices

Categories: Lesson Planning/Ideas, Literacy, Organization, Work/Life Balance

Teaching Sectors: Adult ESL (credit), Continuing Education/Adult ESL (non-credit), LINC

Participant Level: No previous knowledge required

About the Presenter

Mercedes Veselka (she/her) is a graduate student at York University. While she is currently in school full-time, she is also an English language instructor who has primarily worked in community-based LINC programs. Her current research interests include arts-based curriculum development for adult literacy and language learners and how best to support the needs of educators, both in theory and practice.

* Members must be a member of the TESL Ontario group on Tutela.

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