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Tag Archives: teacher training
Scaffolding PD in Uzbekistan: Contextualizing Course Design
This is the first post in a series that highlights TESOL’s participation in the English Speaking Nation Secondary Teacher Training Program, where we designed blended learning opportunities for secondary public school English language teachers from several regions of Uzbekistan (read … Continue reading
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Tagged as blended learning, ESL teacher PD, professional development, teacher training
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Why Use the Term “Professional Development” and not “Training”?
Greetings readers! I am truly honored and excited about serving our global TESOL community as the new blogger on topics related to professional development! (Click here if you’d like to listen to this as a podcast!) Since this is my … Continue reading
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Tagged as ELT professional development, ESL teacher PD, ESL workplace training, PD, professional development, teacher training
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Online Teacher Education Resources in ELT: Cultivating Positive Dispositions With Multimodal Resources
In this third part of our blog series on virtual teacher education, we discuss how to help teacher candidates develop asset-oriented dispositions for teaching multilingual students. All teacher candidates have preconceived beliefs, and there are a number of assumptions about … Continue reading
Online Teacher Education Resources in ELT: Language Portraits
As teacher educators, we constantly redesign our syllabi to include up-to-date content, respond to the ever-changing landscape of educating multilingual learners, and provide multimodal readings and resources. The need for contemporary and online resources has been especially critical after the … Continue reading
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Learning through Change, Learning to Change
One of the real honors of being TESOL International Association President is the chance to represent the Association at conferences hosted by Affiliate associations around the world. Since being elected I have had the chance to speak at events hosted … Continue reading
5 Reasons We Need TESOL Teacher Education
Recently in the United States, some states have been turning to hiring people who are not certified or trained teachers to fill open classroom positions. States such as Utah and Georgia are allowing schools to hire individuals with a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading
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ELT Best Practices: Empowerment in Nepal
First introduced to the English language under the shade of a tree in rural Nepal, Ganga Ram Gautam has dedicated his life’s work to improving the standards of ELT in rural Nepal to empower students and teachers with English language … Continue reading
5 Sources of Support for New TESOL Teachers
In my previous blog entry, I posed some ideas for helping future TESOL teachers transition from the role of student to teacher. To follow up on that, I focus this entry on the next step: how to support those new … Continue reading
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Tagged as evergreen, Kristen Lindahl, new teachers, teacher education, teacher training
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