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      • SIOP Feature 1 Write content objectives clearly for students
      • SIOP Feature 2 Write language objectives clearly for students
      • SIOP Feature 4 Identify Supplementary Materials to Use
      • SIOP Feature 6 Plan meaningful activities that integrate lesson concepts with language practice
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      • SIOP Feature 7 Explicitly link concepts to students backgrounds and experiences
      • SIOP Feature 8 Explicitly link past learning to new concepts
      • SIOP Feature 9 Emphasize key vocabulary for students
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      • SIOP Feature 10 Use Appropriate Speech for Students Proficiency Level
      • SIOP Feature 11 Explain Academic Tasks Clearly
      • SIOP Feature 12 Use a variety of techniques to make concepts clear
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      • SIOP Feature 13 Provide ample opportunities for students to use strategies
      • SIOP Feature 14 Use scaffolding techniques consistently throughout lesson
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      • SIOP Feature 16 Provide frequent opportunities for interaction and discussion
      • SIOP Feature 17 Use Group Configurations that support language and content objectives
      • SIOP Feature 18 Provide sufficient wait time
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      • SIOP Feature 20 Provide hands-on materials and/or manipulatives for students to practice using new content knowledge
      • SIOP Feature 21 Provide activities for students to apply content and language
      • SIOP Feature 22 Provide activities that integrate all language skills >
        • Four Domains of Language Speaking
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      • SIOP Feature 25 Engage Students 90-100% of the Time
      • SIOP Feature 26 Pace the Lesson Appropriately to the Students Ability Level
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      • SIOP Feature 27 ​Give a comprehensive review of key vocabulary
      • SIOP Feature 29 Provide feedback to students regularly on their output
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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 experiential approach to supporting educators can have a profound impact on setting all teachers and students up for success.
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​For over 15 years, Dr. 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, TESOL Trainers offers courses, staff development, and programs to help English learners succeed.

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TESOL Trainers, Inc. transforms teaching & learning.   We provide professional development to K12 educators worldwide. TESOL Trainers is the #1 provider of experiential teacher training on supporting English learners.  Our interactive K-12 staff development uses real model lessons, practical strategies, and adaptable techniques. 

TESOL Trainers offers the most engaging and empowering K12 professional development your teachers will ever have whether they be face to face PDs or online professional development.  
TESOL Trainers' approach to staff development inspires teachers to want to change and gives them the instruments they need to do so.

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 Remote Teacher Training Workshops

To discuss K-12 professional development, contact us directly.  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.   

We can help all teachers develop the necessary strategies to set their students up for success.

​Our remote SIOP workshops are highly popular.  TESOL Trainers English Learner Institute will help any educator teach ELLs more effective. Hundreds of teachers have given it 5 stars on Google.

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TESOL Trainers: The Secret to Our Success with Professional Development

K-12 teachers enjoy attending our training sessions, thank their administrators for inviting us, and ask us to come back.  They must see the value in how TESOL Trainers provides PD.  

In fact, hundreds of educators have given us 5 Stars on Google.

There are 3 reasons why our K-12 professional development programs are so successful:
  1. Engaging -  Our K12 professional development keeps all participants engaged 100% of the time.
  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 mastery.

Professional Development, Teacher Training, and Experiential Learning.


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TESOL Trainers, Inc. offers  highly engaging K-12 professional development to educational institutions worldwide.   We offer traditional and remote teacher training.  Some K12 PD examples are:
  • 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.
  • Staff Development on Engaging Students meaningfully.

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.
  • TESOL Trainers' Course on SIOP is a powerful way to give teachers concrete tools to work with English learners effectively.
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.  

You can send your teachers to us, or we can send our trainers to you.

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



​TESOL Trainers is your scaffold to success!™

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Dr. John Kongsvik on raising bilingual babies

Dr. Kongsvik, director of TESOL Trainers, shares some thoughts on raising multilingual children.  As a member of a multilingual household, Dr. Kongsvik has experience raising his own children in a language that isn't his own.

Contact Dr. Kongsvik to learn how TESOL Trainers can set your teachers up for success!
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