Last Weekend's Conference

I was in Pasadena, CA, last weekend for an ESL-teaching conference. It was much better than the one I attended in Sacramento last year. That conference dealt with too much political theater. I like sessions that tell me what works in the classroom, why it works, and how to do it. I got a lot of that, indeed.

I also won in the raffle--four things, including a DVD set of MRS. DOUBTFIRE and a DVD teaching tool for it in the classroom and a nice book on grammar from Cambridge UP. It's good to be a winner.

A good conference motivates its participants, and when I returned to the classroom on Monday, I felt tired but energized to teach my beginning ESL class about the past tense.