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TESOL Trainers is Your Scaffold to Success!

TESOL Trainers, Inc. is an Education Consulting company that provides consulting, professional development, and teacher training to educational institutions that serve ELs, non-native English speakers, and disadvantaged student populations.  Our approach to supporting educators can have a profound impact on setting all teachers and students up for success.
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​For over 18 years, John Kongsvik and his team at TESOL Trainers, Inc. have worked around the world in developing, designing and delivering empowering teacher training programs for educators who strive for excellence in teaching and excellence in learning™. Whether traditional training or online professional development, our trainings have an immediate impact on how teaching and learning occur.

Our training center in Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest site in the USA to offer the SIT TESOL Certificate Course. Hundreds of people have been trained by our institute to teach English to non-native speakers in this country and abroad.  We give TESOL teachers the skills to teach English and the ability to find the job of their dreams.  We help people teach their way around the world™.​
TESOL Trainers, Inc. transforms teaching & learning.  TESOL Trainers provides professional development to K-12 educators worldwide. We are the #1 provider of experiential professional development.  Our teacher training sessions don't tell teachers how to teach.  We show them using real model lessons, practical strategies, and adaptable techniques.  TESOL Trainers' approach to staff development inspires teachers to want to change and gives them the instruments they need to do so.

We offer the most engaging and empowering professional development your teachers will ever have whether they be face to face PDs or online professional development.  Take a look at what people say about our approach to teacher training:  Read the reviews; watch the videos.  Contact us directly, and we will tell you what we can do to help you take teaching and learning to the next level.
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Learn about our Online Teacher Training Workshops

If you would like to organize professional development for your district or school, contact us directly to discuss options.  We offer a wide-range of teacher support solutions that will transform how teachers teach and learners learn.

If you would like to send a few of your teachers, coaches, or administrators to one of our PD sessions, click here to sign up for 
our remote K12 teacher training sessions.  

​These online teacher training workshops are unlike any your teachers have attended.  TESOL Trainers provides interactive and inspiring professional development that leaves teachers wanting more.

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TESOL Trainers: The Secret to Our Success with Professional Development

There are 3 reasons why our K-12 professional development programs are so successful:
  1. Engaging -  Our professional development keeps all participants engaged 100% of the time with all learning modalities.
  2. Experiential - Everything we do uses the Experiential Learning Cycle as a model for delivery, reflection, discussion, and action.
  3. Empowering -  Our interactive teacher training workshops scaffold all participants into developing confidence and competence.

Professional Development, Teacher Training, and Experiential Learning.


John Kongsvik - Director of TESOL Trainers,  K12 professional development
  

TESOL Trainers, Inc. offers  highly engaging K-12 professional development to educational institutions worldwide.   We offer traditional and remote teacher training.  Our experiential approach to teacher training empowers today's 21st century educators. Here are a few examples: 
  • SIOP (Sheltered Instruction) Professional Development for K-12 Educators.
  • TESOL Strategies for the K-12 content area classroom.
  • The Principles and Practices of Peer Coaching.
  • Professional development on scaffolding and the Gradual Release of Responsibility.
  • ​K-12 professional development on academic vocabulary development.

John Kongsvik, Director of TESOL Trainers.com K12 professional development



TESOL Trainers, Inc. trains college faculty on how to support non-native English speakers in their content-area classes.  We provide practical, research-based strategies that any instructor can use.
  • Best Practices in College Teaching helps faculty make classes more comprehensible to students.
  • The Principles & Practices of Peer Coaching provide faculty with a transformative means of improving teaching and learning.
  • Cross Cultural Communication helps faculty understand culture, its four facets, and how it impacts learning, classroom habits, and the climate itself..

John Kongsvik, Director of TESOL Trainers K12 Professional Development
John Kongsvik and TESOL Trainers have been offering the SIT TESOL Certificate Course in Santa Fe, New Mexico for over 18 years, the oldest site in the world for this English language teacher program.

We offer this transformational, one-of-a-kind TESOL Certificate course to those who wish to teach English locally or abroad.  We also tailor-design this course for educational institutions who want their faculty to become TESOL Certified. 

​ Get TESOL certified and teach your way around the world©.

Set Your Teachers up for Success

TESOL Trainers, Inc. can give you an experiential approach to professional development that is different than any you've ever experienced.  We are the #1 provider of experiential K-12 professional development.  
  • Our K-12 SIOP professional development will transform your K-12 teachers' approach to teaching and learning.
  • iCOACH:  K-12 Peer Coaching empowers K-12 teachers to reach new heights of excellence.
  • TESOL Strategies for K-12 teachers inspires educators to make conscious changes in their teaching.
Our highly interactive approach to teacher training engages the whole of the participants and leaves everyone feeling empowered with the confidence & competence they need to change their teaching practices.  
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TESOL Trainers, Inc. can inspire your teachers to want to be more effective and can give them the tools they'll need to succeed.  

Contact John Kongsvik  to see how we can set your teachers up for success.  

​TESOL Trainers offers K-12 Professional Development worldwide.  We provide training to international schools, institutions of higher education, and ESL/EFL programs around the world.

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