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K-12 Teacher
​Resources & Materials

Below you will find a host of resources and materials from the professional development that we offer.

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TESOL Resources & Materials


TESOL Trainers K12 professional Development with John Kongsvik

The Human Game Board

This kinesthetic activity combines movement, oral language development, cooperative learning, and lots of laughter while having many practice opportunities. This no-low prep activity is guaranteed to engage your students with the content, the language, and one another.

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  • ​The Human Game Board
John Kongsvik and TESOL Trainers K12 training

SWAT Your Way to Success

Incorporating fly swatters in a lesson has many benefits.  They engage students, get them moving, give them opportunities to hone their listening skills, and encourage students to demonstrate comprehension.

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  • SWAT the Element
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Information Gaps

Information Gaps are excellent at getting students to interact with all four language domains.  Info Gaps encourage students to use language in order to communicate specific content to their peers.

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  • Math Information Gap A - Geometry
  • Math Information Gap B - Geometry
  • Language Arts Info Gap - Vocabulary​ 

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Cooperative Learning

Getting students to work effectively with one another is not only a necessary career and college skill, it also makes everyone get more out of any activity.  Giving students specific roles empowers them by making everyone's responsibilities transparent.  It also helps them get more out of group work.
  • TESOL Trainers Stick to Your Role
TESOL Trainers professional development for K12 educators

Mixing & Mingling

One of the most important things we can do as teachers is to encourage students to interact with one another in meaningful ways.  TESOL Trainers helps teachers understand how to get students to mingle about and to share both the content and the language with their peers.
  • ​TESOL Trainers Mix-n-Mingle
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Carousel of Learning

Learning doesn't always have to happen sitting in one's seat.  Creating a carousel of learning stations around the classroom adds movement & a change of pace to the learning environment.  It fosters autonomy.  TESOL Trainers helps teachers master the Carousel and other powerful techniques.
  • TESOL Trainers Carousel of Learning

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