English Language Learners (ELLs) represent the fastest growing population in the US American public school system. According to the National Education Association., the number of ELLs that K-12 schools serve has increased by over 100% in the past ten years. Indeed, some states and districts have experienced a jump of 400% or more of enrolled English Language Learners.. However, the percentage of teachers who have substantial training in TESOL has not kept pace with the growing number of non-native English speakers public schools serve.

Professional Development is an effective means of supporting teacher development when the focus is on informing and transforming teaching practices. Any quality professional development venture is centered around the latest research in teaching and adult and student learning (The Center for Applied Linguistics).

TESOL Trainers offers a wide range of consulting and professional development services to help school districts and schools meet the needs of an increasingly multi-cultural, multi-lingual student body.  Though we work with all K-12 teachers, our speciality is working with teachers who have English language learners in their classrooms.

We help school districts design and develop systems and seminars that address the No Child Left Behind guidelines for all bilingual, ESL, and content-area teachers.

If your teachers have ELLs in your classroom, we can provide the support you need to help all students succeed.

In addition, we offer a host of professional development workshops to give teachers the confidence and competence they need to work with any students in any content area.  TESOL Trainers helps teachers deepen their understanding of the fundamental principles of teaching and learning by exploring such topics as:

• Assessing Learning: Formative and Summative Ways
• Integrating the 4 skills
• Learning Centers K-12
• Reflective Teaching Practices
• Scaffolding Students to Success
• Strategies to Maximize Engagement
• Vocabulary Acquisition Techniques

Our workshops can be tailor-made for any institution with any needs. We also have a for-credit option for any professional development workshop.

Contact TESOL Trainers. for more information.

Types of workshops

• Best Practices in Teaching: Developing a solid foundation in the Best Practices in teaching can help educators use research-proven techniques to meet the needs of each of their students.

• Differentiating Instruction & Learning:   Modifying instruction to meet the needs of every learner can be a challenge.  This workshop works with the theory behind differentiating instruction and practical strategies and techniques to make every teacher help every learner succeed.

• iCoach:  Teachers develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and awareness to become peer coaches. Coaching communities are created within a school. Individual members of the coaching communities learn how to create the right environment that supports student success, teaching excellence, professional collaboration, and teacher renewal.

• Implementing ESL Standards in the Content Classroom:  This workshop demystifies the standards, helps teachers see how they are already meeting them, and provides tips, strategies, and techniques for meeting them all on a consistent basis

• Intercultural Communication for Educators: This workshop promotes intercultural awareness by discovering how one’s own cultural traits shape our world view. It also provides teachers with a framework and tools that they can use to teach intercultural sensitivity to their students.

• Language Objectives:  This workshop series looks at language objectives, how they are formed and how a teacher can meet those objectives in the classroom in an interactive, meaningful way.

• Reflective Teaching Practices:  Reflective Teaching is an invaluable tool in being able to inform and transform one’s teaching.   Through observations and reflective discussions, teachers explore how to become their own mentors.

• Sheltered Instruction (SIOP): This series of workshops explores the fundamental principles of sheltered instruction and provides teachers with a deep understanding of the SIOP framework and scores of strategies and techniques they can use to support the learning of all of their students.

• Teacher Education Awareness and Mentorship {TEAM™}:  is a mentoring program that promotes systemic professional development sustainability by providing a foundation upon which schools create in-house learning communities.

• Working with English Language Learners:  This workshop, specifically for ESOL teachers provides teachers with strategies, techniques, and easy-to-use tools to teach English in a more efficient and effective manner.

• Language Learning and Teaching: Teachers who teach Spanish, Chinese, Navajo, and other languages are often left out of professional development opportunities. This workshop series supports their understanding of the language learning/teaching paradigm and provides them with research-based techniques to help their students succeed.