​TESOL Trainers:  Setting all Students Up for Success, One Teacher at a Time.

TESOL Trainers designs and delivers high quality professional development to K-12 schools in the USA and abroad.   See why our Principles & Practices of SIOP is the most popular K-12 PD program.

​TESOL Trainers specializes in training teachers to work more effectively & efficiently with non-native English speaking students, students from multicultural backgrounds, and disadvantaged populations of students.  

Educational institutions that are interested in maximizing the potential of their teachers and their students find John Kongsvik's experiential approach to teacher training to be highly effective at transforming teaching and learning practices.  

TESOL Trainers is the #1 provider of experiential SIOP professional development.

Benefits of TESOL Trainers' PD

Learner Centered:  Participants are engaged 100% of the time in connecting the content of the PD to their teaching contexts.
Experiential:  Participants experience the TESOL strategies as students and as reflect on them as teachers.
Adaptable:  100% adaptable to any learning context with little to no teacher preparation.
Relevant:  All TESOL strategies and techniques are practical solutions  teachers can immediately implement in their classrooms.
Needs Based: We tailor everything to the specific needs of every educational institution and their individual teachers.
John Kongsvik of TESOL Trainers scaffolds all teachers into success.
John Kongsvik - Promoting Oral Language Fluency

Types of Professional Development offered by TESOL Trainers, Inc.
TESOL Trainers provides educators with engaging, experiential K-12 staff development on on a wide variety of themes.  Examples of K-12 Professional Development:
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TESOL Trainers' TESOL Endorsement Program can be molded to meet the needs of any school or school district.  The New Mexico English Language Learner Initiative {NMELL} is highly experiential and highly transformative.  It will change forever the way your teachers plan, teach, and reflect on learning.  This K-12 teacher training program helps make teaching and learning more effective and efficient.

TESOL Trainers offers Remote K12 Professional Development

John Kongsvik and his team of TESOL Trainers offer remote professional development for K12 educators.    We provide engaging, empowering teacher training sessions on all of our popular K12 programs including:
In addition to these professional topics, we give target K12 staff development workshops on the tools of remote teaching and learning such as:
  • Engaging Learners with Zoom and Google Meet
  • Using Google Classroom:  Strategies and Techniques for K12 Teachers
  • Tips for Using Pear Deck, Near Pod, and Kami

What do teachers say about our Professional Development?

The K-12 professional development that TESOL Trainers offers is highly engaging, very experiential, absolutely empowering, and unforgettable.

In addition to walking away with new skills and techniques,  teachers leave feeling inspired to become more effective educators.

Watch what a few participants from John Kongsvik's Promoting Language, Literacy, and Learning say about the caliber of our teacher training programs.
TESOL Trainers offers SIOP Seminars and SIOP Institutes with a peer coaching component.  

TESOL Trainers is #1 for experiential professional development for K-12 teachers.  iCOACH™ is the most empowering peer coaching program that a school can adopt.  TESOL Trainers' peer coaching program will transform teaching & learning forever.  iCOACH™ is a process that can be mastered in one year.

TESOL Trainers will not only inspire your teachers to want to do better; TESOL Trainers will give them the tools to do it.