The TESOL Blog

Combat the grief, despair, and anxiety that is a response to climate chaos by implementing classroom activities for that encourage climate optimism and also focus on language development. 

In this post, educators Tan and Valentina share practical ways to intentionally create more welcoming reading and writing experiences for multilingual learners of English in elementary and secondary schools.

The last several decades have seen a plethora of educational technology advances, like learning management systems, language learning apps, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Discover how to energize your classroom with free tools and PD opportunities for four trends in educational technology.

Brent Warner provides a quick look at some of the digital tools that can help you zip through the little tasks that you keep putting off, like converting a PDF or recording a short video.

Providing writing feedback tends to be time-consuming and, despite our best efforts, learners often continue to repeatedly make the same mistakes. Here are six strategies for providing feedback on MLEs’ writing.

Tan and Valentina shed light on what the science of reading is and how it applies to multilingual learners of English. 

Bernadette Musetti interviews Lisa Cullen, a long-time TESOL professional whose work spans multiple levels, countries, and continents. Lisa shares about her professional path and teaching multilingual learners of English using the context of ecological literacy.

These bite-sized courses are the perfect way to brush up on new developments and add a variety of skills to your teaching toolbox. Learn about micro-credentials and explore some ELT-related courses.

Teachers today are increasingly challenged in how to best support the multilingual development of all their learners. Try these suggestions for how to draw on multilingual and translingual pedagogies to design instruction in culturally sustaining ways.

Translanguaging, as a pedagogical practice, leverages learners’ entire linguistic repertoire to enhance their learning and cognitive processes. Here are some practical examples to use translanguaging in the classroom to foster student writing.

Spencer Salas reflects on the origin and meaning of Juneteenth in the United States, and connects the celebration of the holiday to literacy and reading.

Read up on a few ways to incorporate AI into your teaching practice, both with students and for your own lesson planning.