2. TESOL
Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages
A professional organization that is devoted to
promoting excellence in English Language
Teaching to speakers of other languages
This is done through workshops, seminars, online
courses, symposiums, journals, helpful links
and opportunities to communicate with others
in the field to benefit our students
3. TESOL
Mission
• To advance professional expertise in English language
teaching and learning for speakers of other languages
worldwide
Credo
• Ideals that members believe in as a professional
community:
• Professionalism in language education
• Interaction of research and practice for educational
improvement
• Accessible, high quality instruction
• Respect for diversity, multilingualism and multiculturalism
• Respect for individual language rights
• Collaboration in a global community
4. 21st Century Classroom
• The 21st century classroom is a smart
classroom
– A smart classroom has an instructor station
equipped with computer and audiovisual equipment
allowing the instructor to teach using a wide variety
of media.
• The 21st century classroom integrates
technology that students interact with
everyday such as social networks, podcasting,
laptops, Ipods, Ipads, cell phones and tablets
5. Types of Technology in the
Classroom
• Tablet computers (Ipad etc.)
• Smart Phones
• Laptops
• Digital cameras
• Music Players
• Digital Microscopes
• Digital Whiteboards (Smart boards)
• Smart toys
• Web cameras
Technology serves as a visual aide and can be used as a
technology tool to enhance a lesson or objective
6. Advantages of Technology in
the Classroom
• Enchances the curriculum
• Increases flexibility of presenting material
• Improves lectures
• Provides visuals of information presented
• Equips students to handle technical advances in their
society
• Students are more motivated to learn
• Expands cooperative learning
• Authentic way to explore new topics
• Students have a way to create and share material and
receive feedback
7. Teachers Need To:
• be trained in technology
• be competent to use in the classroom
• actively engage all students
• receive ongoing training
• be the expert of the technology use
8. Facebook
• Most of us use facebook on a daily basis
but there are more uses than we
realize…
– PROFESSIONALLY
• Have you used facebook for professional
reasons in the past?
• Any ideas how you could professionally use
facebook in the future?
• Like to everythingesl page
9. Twitter
• As educators we can use Twitter to converse
briefly with our peers and bounce ideas back
and forth
• #ELLCHAT is a hashtag on Twitter that is
dedicated to ELL educational issues
• As the students we work with age, we can create
forums and hashtags of our own to get our students
communicating
Getting Started: Go to twitter.com, sign up for an
account, create a 3 sentence bio and start following
10. Other Professional Ways to
use Technology
• All teachers especially ESL teachers should join a
PLN – Personal Learning Network
• Googling ideas is an individual seraching
• HOWEVER, using a PLN you are interacting with live
people in real time to get a bigger variety of ideas,
suggestions or solutions
• Skype – brings the world into your classroom, we can
meet survivors from historical eras, interview
authors, etc.
11. Questions and Suggestions
• How do you integrate technology in your
classroom?
• After this presentation what new ways
are you considering utilizing technology
in your classroom?
• What are some alternate forms of
technology that you use that maybe we
didn’t include in our presentation?
12. Helpful Resources
Handout
• Handout has many resources to use in
the classroom.
• Great way to incorporate technology in
your classroom.
• You only get better at technology by
logging on and doing it.
