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5 Ways to Reclaim Your Love for Education Amid Stress and Burnout
- Oct 15, 2024
the pressures of modern teaching can sometimes overshadow its rewards, leading to stress and burnout. Reclaiming your love for education is not just essential for your well-being but also for the success and inspiration of the very students you choose to lead. Here are five ways you can navigate success when the school year gets challenging.
4 Ways to Discover Your Zen (and Foster SEL) in the Classroom
- Sep 30, 2024
SEL includes five core social and emotional competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Although SEL frequently comes up in a K–12 context, it also applies equally to adult multilingual learners. Depending on the age and educational background of your students, it may be their first time encountering SEL competencies in the classroom.
9 Strategies for School Administrators Navigating the Teacher Recruitment Process
- Jul 22, 2024
Seeking strategies to help with the tumultuous task of aligning high-quality staff with the needs of your students? From navigating teaching certification requirements to standing out in an increasingly competitive job market, here are some strategies to support administrators with this journey.
Ecological Literacy in TESOL: Benefits for Professionals and Their Students
- Apr 15, 2024
Ecoliteracy has been defined as the experience and understanding of how nature sustains life and how to live accordingly. Promoting greater ecological awareness and ecological literacy allows our students and us, as teachers, to view nature and all life through a more inclusive, ecocentric lens, rather than one that is more human centered and anthropocentric.
“Proper” and “Broken” English: The Problem of Linguistic Racism
- Apr 8, 2024
Linguistic racism involves mistreatment or devaluation of individuals based on their accent, dialect, or speech patterns. This discrimination can lead to unfair assumptions about a person's character and intelligence. Prioritizing standardized English perpetuates linguistic ideologies that marginalize speakers of other language varieties, reinforcing power imbalances and perpetuating discrimination. Linguistic racism needs to be tackled head on.
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11 Job-Embedded PD Focus Areas for Ed Leaders to Consider
- Mar 18, 2024
Job-Embedded Professional Development (JEPD) consists of professional development activities within the teacher's regular work environment. JEPD is a critical approach to supporting teachers, schools, and districts in their efforts to improve teaching and learning.
Nurturing Culturally Aware Teaching
- Mar 11, 2024
As English language instructors, we are entrusted with creating a safe environment for our students to acquire English. Your students may be refugees or asylum seekers and may be dealing not just with culture shock and a new language, but also trauma, which means the creation of a positive, safe learning environment is critically important.
Learning From Conflict: Building Understanding Through Respectful Dialogue
- Feb 26, 2024
Many educators are grappling with how to maintain an inclusive learning environment while using global events to build awareness and critical consciousness. Some teachers may feel it is best to avoid talking about it altogether. But rather than be the ostrich who buries its head in the sand, it is important that teachers create safe spaces in the classroom for students to address controversial issues and build understanding as they navigate the complexities of a conflict.
12 Mentorship Must Haves
- Jan 29, 2024
Mentors can serve as invaluable source of guidance and support for early career educators, but not all of these professional relationships are productive. Here are twelve 'must-have' suggestions for implementing a successful mentorship initiative.
Language Ideologies and TESOL Educators
- Jan 22, 2024
Language ideologies are views and beliefs that influence how educators teach and interact with students. By seeking to understand the language ideologies of their students, TESOL educators can be better equipped to navigate the complex interplay of linguisitic issues and social structures.
Ask a TESOL Leader: "How can professional development be helpful in improving the teaching and learning process?
- Dec 24, 2023
Among TESOL’s 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners®, Principle 6 is “Engage and collaborate within a community of practice” (CoP). For me, community is a driving force in my life, both personally and professionally, so I seek out opportunities to learn with and from others. As humans, we’re not meant to live and work in isolation, so we inherently seek out relationships that enhance our lives.
4 Strategies to Make Your Push-In Model Effective
- Nov 6, 2023
In English language push-in models, only so much can be done in a very short amount of time—from teaching language to teaching content. In push-in models, an English language professional brings...
Is Your University Prepared to Recruit Graduate Students to Online Programs?
- Oct 16, 2023
Overall, online program enrollment has increased significantly, thanks to the pandemic initially driving the shift in modalities. And for some groups of students pursuing higher education, this shift has continued.
Measuring Your Research Impact
- Oct 9, 2023
Throughout my career, although I engaged in all the professional pursuits connected to an academic career (e.g., teaching, research, publication), I didn’t concern myself with the legacy I was creating — and hence evaluating my impact — until recently...
Personalize Your Student Engagement Process in 6 Steps
- Sep 25, 2023
In this article, Blaine Johnson, explains how the Student Engagement Model makes it possible for the admissions team to instill the confidence prospective students need to succeed.
Beyond sentence frames: Scaffolding emergent multilingual students' participation in science discourse
- Sep 11, 2023
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?
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.
Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books
- Aug 21, 2023
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.
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.
Ongoing Professional Development for Busy Teacher Teams
- Jul 31, 2023
In this article, we share how to implement a PD system that was introduced within a team of busy teachers.