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TESOL Strategies

TESOL Trainers provides highly engaging Professional Development on TESOL Strategies for today's K-12 educator.

John Kongsvik's K-12 remote professional development will forever change how your teachers and students approach online learning

Our experiential approach to teacher training empowers participants; our engaging delivery inspires teachers; our use of practical, no-prep strategies encourage teachers to immediately implement these  strategies in their contexts.

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What are TESOL Strategies?

TESOL is an acronym for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.  

Many school districts across the United States are faced with rising numbers of English learners and the realization that they are poorly prepared for the challenge.

While many teachers have English learners in their classrooms, they may not have the necessary competence or confidence to support these students effectively.  

In fact, an overwhelming number of teachers admit to feeling inadequately prepared and poorly equipped to meet the needs of these students.

TESOL Trainers is your scaffold to success ™

TESOL Trainers offers a highly interactive look at TESOL Strategies.  Participants leave our professional development with scores of easy-to-use, high-yield strategies they can use the next day without preparation.

TESOL Trainers provides online professional development transforms teaching and learning.  Our remote PD is unlike any other online teacher training:  it's experiential, engaging, and empowering.

Teachers who attend the workshops can expect to:
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  • Develop ability to use these 8 fundamental TESOL Strategies.
  • Experience 12 strategies to engage all learners all of the time
  • Acquire 8 strategies of how to check for comprehension
  • Encounter a simple, fool-proof system of giving crystal clear instructions
  • Explore how to support academic vocabulary acquisition
  • Gain tools to maximize oral language practice in any context
  • Use the Gradual Release of Responsibility to scaffold any lesson
  • Integrate the 4 language domains: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing 
  • Hone ability to measure one's own skills with conscious competence.

TESOL Trainers offers Online Professional Development for K12 Educators

Teaching remotely has its challenges for teachers and their students.  The English learner tends to have far more hurdles to get over in order to learn.  The challenge of remote learning is how far behind some categories of students fall.  Yet, there are strategies that K12 educators can implement that create a successful learning experience for English learners.  TESOL Trainers has a host of K12 professional development workshops that help teachers develop the knowledge, attitude, skills, and awareness they need to support non-native English speakers in the online and hybrid learning environment. 

John Kongsvik and his team of highly skilled trainers provide 100% experiential professional development on TESOL Strategies for the content area teacher.  These interactive remote training sessions cover important topics such as:
  • Second language acquisition strategies
  • Giving clear instructions in remote learning 
  • Scaffolding English learners into success
  • Making content comprehensible for all learners
  • Vocabulary development in the online classroom
  • Increasing oral language development 
  • Integrating the four domains of language
  • Helping students increase responsibility and autonomy
  • Connecting students to the language, the content and one another
  • Engaging English Learners with their own learning
If you are looking to train your entire staff, contact us directly.  If you would like to send a few of your teachers, coaches, or administrations to one of our training sessions, find out more about our online workshops for K12 teachers here.

TESOL Trainer's Strategies Set Teachers Up for Success

Rather than dreading going to professional development, teachers look forward to attending our TESOL workshops.  

​After each session, teachers rave about how quickly the time passed and how much they enjoyed it.  

Even the veteran teachers say our teacher training workshops  are among the best they've ever attended.  

Educators complete our TESOL trainings with high levels of confidence in their ability to implement the strategies & competence in being able to do so effectively.

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