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  • Teachers’ association

    Professional Development Through Teachers’ Associations

    • Sep 18, 2023
    • Laura Baecher

    Teachers’ associations provide a valuable platform for teachers to develop their skills, stay current with trends in teaching and learning, and connect with other educational professionals.

  • multilingual student participation

    Beyond sentence frames: Scaffolding emergent multilingual students' participation in science discourse

    • Sep 11, 2023
    • Laura Alvarez, Sarah Capitelli, Guadalupe Valdés

    This article describes research we conducted in fifth grade classrooms to explore the question: How can teachers scaffold emergent multilingual students' participation in student-to-student discussions with the goal of supporting their language use and scientific sense-making?

  • Teacher burnout

    How School Leaders Can Curb Teacher Burnout

    • Sep 4, 2023

    This article discusses creating initiatives to improve mental health, allowing increased agency in roles, and offering tools that ensure educators can meet the needs of the whole child.

  • Teacher instructing students

    Using the OASIS Research Database for ELT Professional Development

    • Aug 28, 2023
    • Inge Alferink

    This article is a practical guide to how an English language teacher could use OASIS summaries in their practice

  • Student reading WPB with teacher

    Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books

    • Aug 21, 2023
    • Jennifer D. Honaker, Ryan T. Miller

    We argue for the power of WPBs for literacy development among English learners (ELs) by addressing common misconceptions, highlighting unique benefits to ELs, suggesting practical pedagogical implications, and offering examples of implementation.

  • Teacher praising student

    Critical Language Education in Professional Development

    • Aug 14, 2023
    • Laura Baecher

    This post, guest written by Ceren Kocaman and Ali Fuad Selvi, focuses on how critical approaches can help educators transform their pedagogical and research practices.

  • Students with puzzle pieces

    SEL Meets ESL: Emotional Intelligence for Non-Native Speakers

    • Aug 7, 2023

    Many non-native speakers face an onslaught of academic and social challenges, and that means social–emotional learning becomes every bit as crucial as language education.

  • Group of teachers

    Ongoing Professional Development for Busy Teacher Teams

    • Jul 31, 2023
    • Nicholas Bradley, Jason R. Walters

    In this article, we share how to implement a PD system that was introduced within a team of busy teachers.

  • Teacher in after-school program

    “I have meaningful work:” Crafting teaching and advocacy at an ESL after-school program

    • Jul 24, 2023
    • Jackie Ridley, Nicole King

    This article explores how teachers in an after-school program supported refugee and immigrant students and their families.

  • Man receiving micro-credentials

    Micro-Credentials: The New Enrollment Funnel for Tomorrow’s University

    • Jul 17, 2023
    • Krysia Lazarewicz

    In this article, Krysia Lazarewicz, Vice President of Business Development at Wiley University Services, discusses the importance of credentials for learners and employers and explores how universities can evolve to meet their needs.

  • Student blogging

    Revisiting Blogging for English Learners in 2023

    • Jul 10, 2023
    • Brent Warner

    Today, we’re revisiting the value of blogging for multilingual learners of English (MLEs) in 2023, focusing on two key areas: language development and the benefits of having an instant audience.

  • Group of teachers in discussion

    10 Trending Professional Development Topics in ELT

    • Jul 3, 2023
    • Laura Baecher

    Here are 10 topics that have appeared frequently in the TESOL community, appearing often in a number of publications, including the program books from several ELT organizations, news and blog posts, and English language teacher newsletters.

  • Students uniting

    Helping Students to Recognise and Respond to Social Injustice: Suggested Strategies and Resources

    • Jun 26, 2023
    • Naashia Mohamed

    As educators, this may be a useful opportunity to enable conversations about inequities and injustices, so that we can help students to develop the critical thinking, collaboration, and self-reflection skills necessary to foster a better society

  • Students working in a group

    Creating Space for Translanguaging for Elementary School-Aged MLLs

    • Jun 19, 2023
    • Judie Haynes

    Here are ways teacher education programs can promote creation of spaces for translanguaging to become common in all bilingual, ESL, and general education classrooms.

  • Special Education teacher

    Special Education Teacher Burnout: Why It Happens and What to Do About It

    • Jun 12, 2023

    In this feature, we aim to identify the symptoms of special teacher burnout, discuss why the attrition happens in such a fast and sustained way, and point out the best way to course correct.

  • An SEL Toolbox for the English Language Classroom

    • Jun 5, 2023
    • Yevgeniya Pukalo, Kelsey DeCamillis

    Language learning was hindered in many ways in the shift to online learning, but at the same time as these obstacles presented themselves, a window of opportunity opened that allowed us to discover creative solutions to these issues and to focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) needs of students in the English language classroom.

  • Literacy

    When literacy ate language: An analysis of a research-based literacy intervention for designated English Learners

    • May 29, 2023
    • Trish Morita-Mullaney, Fang Gao, Rong Zhang

    In this case study, the researchers examine a literacy intervention and how it is interpreted and implemented by elementary reading specialists.

  • Teachers collaborating

    5 Collaborative Teaching Practices for Teacher Learning

    • May 22, 2023
    • Laura Baecher, Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria G. Dove

    What types of collaborative practices offer ongoing support for teachers? There are many ways that teachers partner together to support one another’s success as well as the learning progress of their students

  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT: What Educators Need to Know

    • May 15, 2023

    So, what is ChatGPT? And what does its existence mean for teachers and administrators?

  • Creating a supportive classroom

    Inspiring Equity for Vulnerable Learners

    • May 8, 2023
    • Jana Moore, Mary Jane Boynton

    Creating an environment that is all-inclusive and accepting of diversity will result in a welcoming space, which students can easily recognize.