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      • SIOP Feature 1 Write content objectives clearly for students
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      • 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
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      • SIOP Feature 10 Use Appropriate Speech for Students Proficiency Level
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      • 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
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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 >
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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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K-12
​Professional Development  

TESOL Trainers provides experiential approaches to K-12 professional development that empower educators with powerful, practical strategies they can immediately implement in their classroom contexts.

TESOL Trainers specializes in helping teachers work more effectively and efficiently with English learners in the K-12 classroom.

TESOL Trainers offers a wide range of dynamic K-12 professional development programs on TESOL, SIOP and much more. TESOL Trainers sets everyone up for success!™

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

Online Professional Development

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 English Learners, s
tudents from multicultural backgrounds, and disadvantaged populations of students.  Contact Dr. John Kongsvik to learn how we can train your teachers to work effectively with ELs.

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.  

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.
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John Kongsvik of TESOL Trainers scaffolds all teachers into success.
John Kongsvik - Promoting Oral Language Fluency
Engaging Students

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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  • The Principles and Practices of SIOP
  • Peer Coaching to Promote Positive Teaching Practices
  • TESOL Strategies That Work in the K-12 Classroom     
  • Working with ELs on Oral Language Development
  • Academic Vocabulary Acquisition for English Learners
  • ​The Gradual Release of Responsibility and Scaffolding
  • Academic Listening Skills for all Educators
  • Actively Engaging Students
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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:
TESOL Trainers Remote K12 PD online teacher training seminars
  • SIOP Techniques and Strategies
  • TESOL Strategies for Content-Area Educator
  • Integrating the Four Domains of Language
  • Techniques for Teaching Vocabulary Online
  • Scaffolding Students into Success Online
  • Peer Coaching Programs for Remote Teachers
  • Engaging Students with Online Learning
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

TESOL Trainer's Remote PD is Inspiring

Whether the teachers are novice instructors or veteran educators, we will inspire them to implement our practical strategies the day after the PD has ended.

Because we offer a lecture-free, 100% experiential approach to professional development, participants remain engaged in training from beginning to end.

​If you want your teachers to thank you after attending this training, contact John Kongsvik to schedule this one-of-a-kind PD. 
John Kongsvik, PhD. Director of TESOL Trainers
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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.
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Vocabulary
Scaffolding

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.
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