Celebration of Teaching Conference

Celebration of Teaching 2024


10th Annual Celebration of Teaching Conference

Honoring the Identities of Newcomer Students in the Classroom 

Date

April 6th, 2024

Time

10:30am - TBD

 

 

Join us for the 10th Annual Celebration of Teaching Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University on Saturday, April 6, 2024!  Since 2014, the CoT conference has highlighted innovative and exploratory practices as participants look for new ways to address age-old and new challenges faced by teachers and learners in schools today. Because our organization greatly values cooperative practice, this event provides participants with many opportunities to develop networks with peers at Teachers College and other institutions as well as potential colleagues from the community, which will serve as a helpful resource in language learning classrooms.

This year, our theme revolves around honoring the identities of newcomer students in the classroom. We hope you can join us! 

 

Call for Proposals:

Please submit a proposal by March 1, 2024 that demonstrates the practices you implemented in a classroom setting. This could be a simple activity, lesson plan, or unit of study across any content area! Specifically, we would love to see proposals that highlight socio-emotional learning, content-integrated language instruction, and translanguaging pedagogies. Presentations will be 10 minutes long with five minutes for questions. We highly encourage interactive elements where the audience can participate as students. 

Register to Attend CoT by clicking the link below. Registration is FREE and open to all TC as well as non-TC students and faculty.

Call for Proposals:

Please submit a proposal by March 1, 2024 that demonstrates the practices you implemented in a classroom setting. This could be a simple activity, lesson plan, or unit of study across any content area! Specifically, we would love to see proposals that highlight socio-emotional learning, content-integrated language instruction, and translanguaging pedagogies. Presentations will be 10 minutes long with five minutes for questions. We highly encourage interactive elements where the audience can participate as students. 

Past Keynote Speaker


Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Strom, PhD

Carolyn is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Literacy at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Her work is focused on bridging the divide between scientific research and instructional practices. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, has a Master’s degree from USC in Reading Education and a PhD from NYU.

As a teacher educator and classroom researcher, Carolyn is passionate about linking what is known about how the brain learns with how reading is taught. Currently, she is leading an initiative with early childhood educators and families called 'Cortex in the Classroom.’ This work focuses on the practical application of reading research and on the development of new instructional media for supporting early reading.

Carolyn has studied the course of children's reading and spelling development for the past two decades and published her work in The Reading Teacher, The Reading League Journal, and The Handbook of Learning Disabilities. She maintains an active clinical practice where she works with children who have dyslexia and related reading difficulties. She is a state-certified reading specialist with advanced phonics training and was a classroom teacher for 8 years.

About CoT


Celebration of Teaching came about organically at Teachers College in response to students’ calls for less theoretical and more hands-on content based strategies directed toward serving English Language Learners (ELLs) in mainly PK-12 New York public school classrooms. During the CoT conference, innovative and exploratory practice is encouraged, as participants look for new ways to address age-old and new challenges faced by teachers and learners in school today. Our mission is one of cooperative practice, and this event provides participants with many opportunities to develop networks with peers at Teachers College and potential colleagues from the community, which will serve as helpful resource into the world of New York public schools. ​

Our Mission 

​Our mission is to provide all prospective and practicing educators a safe place to demonstrate new ideas, share proven methods, and network with others in the field. We aim to provide an event where you can see it today and teach it tomorrow. The aim of this conference is to provide teachers with new techniques and insights to better serve and support English Language Learners (ELLs) across multiple content areas. We invite all departments and content teachers (pre-service and in-service) to present and/or attend the conference to equip and be equipped with strategies to support all ELLs in our classrooms.

Who We Are

​We were founded in 2014 by graduate students in the TESOL/Applied Linguistics PK-12 Program of Teachers College, Columbia University. The first and second-year cohorts in the program continue to host this conference annually.

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