At the beginning of my career, I was hired as an Adult Basic Education and English as a Second Language Instructor. The organization that I worked for had contracts with a number of manufacturing companies. Classes took place on the shop floor with the company donating an hour of class time 3 times a week. This experience led me to become TESL certified, and I have carried this knowledge with me throughout my career.In January of 2021, I was fortunate enough to be tasked with designing and developing a language literacy program for new refugees to Canada. In getting to know my audience, I realized that the vast majority of these individuals had incredible stories. They were doctors, lawyers, architects, social reformists, teachers, and journalists who had to flee their country due to overwhelming persecution and fear for their lives. They fled with just one suitcase and left everything, including family and friends, behind. Because of this, many of them were ill prepared to deal with Canada's culture and climate. Leaning heavily on my TESL experience, I designed and developed a catalogue of over 300 lessons to support them in their integration into Canadian Life. The program was built upon micro-volunteering and micro-learning where any community minded volunteer who had time to spare could pick up a lesson and support a learner through their language acquisition. If you would like to learn more about creating a micro-volunteering program, please contact me. I also designed and developed a volunteer training program to either be delivered in person or as eLearning. Unfortunately, COVID happened, and the program lost its funding. The program was developed with the following theories and principles.
•Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
•Canadian Language Benchmarks
Downloads available are from the module on seasons in Canada and focus on Autumn. The lesson plans are scaffolded based on Canadian Language Benchmarks Level 1 to 3. If you are interested in viewing the full library, please contact me.
1 Autumn Picture Dictionary Activity Sheet GTHW11 (pdf)
Download2 Autumn Match Activity Sheet GTHW13 (pdf)
Download3 Autumn Word Search Activity Sheet GTHW12 (pdf)
Download4 Autumn Unscramble Activity Sheet GTHW8 (pdf)
Download5 Autumn in Canada Resource and Activity Sheet GTHW14 (pdf)
Download6 Autumn Vocabulary Review Sheet GTHW26 (pdf)
Download7 Autumn in Canada Hidden Message Activity Sheet GTHW27 (pdf)
Download8 Autumn in Canada Multiple Choice Activity Sheet GTHW28 (pdf)
DownloadCleaning Fill in the Blanks Activity Sheet GTCH8 (pdf)
DownloadDirections Activity Sheet CLT1 (pdf)
DownloadFood - Board Game GTFF36 (pdf)
DownloadFruits Quiz Activity Sheet GTFF31 (pdf)
DownloadLanguage lesson plans catalogue (pdf)
DownloadSorting Quiz Activity Sheet GTGR1 (pdf)
DownloadTesting tool (pdf)
Downloadvolunteer training guide (pdf)
DownloadVolunteer training outline (pdf)
Downloadvolunteer training slide deck (pdf)
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