14 teachers joined us at John Fawkner College last month to be trained as Literacy for Learning tutors. The school's Principal, Mark Natoli, had great things to say about the program: I believe that the course will have a long lasting impact on effective teacher practice and improve student …
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Karen completed the TESMC Tutor Training in 2008. She is an EAL/D visiting teacher. Did you find the tutor training to be valuable? Extremely. The tutor training course was very thorough and gave me a detailed understanding of all content within all modules. The tutor training manual is …
Bronwyn did the Teacher course in 2008 and later went on to do the Tutor Training course. She is an EAL/D visiting teacher. "I found the Tutor Training TESMC to be a valuable training course in my professional development. Many of the underpinnings of the teaching/learning experiences were …
Thank you to Concordia International School Shanghai for hosting Teaching Young Children in English in Multilingual Contexts from 6 to 9 November 2017. Modules 1 and 2 were my favourite. Appreciated another way of thinking about ESL instruction/training. Looking forward to working with my staff …
Lisa Webster is currently the Reading Co-ordinator at Kilcoy State School. She did the TESMC teacher course in 2012 when Kilcoy SS began enrolling a high number of NESB students and she was the EAL/D visiting teacher there. Did you find the TESMC course to be valuable? I loved the TESMC …
Peter is currently an EAL/D teacher in the intensive unit at Dakabin High. He did the teacher course in 2012. He used it as a subject in his TESOL university degree. A few years ago, I did the TESMC course, and have found it most useful and practical. At the time I was not actually teaching ESL …
We are thrilled to announce that Lexis Education has become a provider of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered Professional Development for our Literacy for Learning Tutor Training. If you are based in NSW, Australia, you might be aware that you are required as a teacher …
Another set of excellent feedback from our Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms Tutor Training's participants in Brisbane. Has had an enormous impact on me. I didn't realise I have a lot more to learn. I have learnt so much! Amazing. All content was helpful. Penny Kourra, EALD Teacher, …
12 teachers joined us at Nord Anglia International School Shanghai Pudong to be trained as tutors as part of the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms Tutor Training. The feedback Extremely valuable in regards to academic writing and nominalisation. Very valuable in regards to the whole …
16 teachers joined us at the Acklam Green Centre in Middlesbrough from 17 to 21 July 2017 to be trained as tutors as part of the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms Tutor Training. The feedback It has been valuable to me and the school as we try to help piece together a whole-school …
Should parents whose English is not their first language read to their child in English? People ought to be able to do what is natural for them, and speaking and reading to their young child in the language they feel most comfortable in should be the most obvious. What is important is not to …
16 teachers joined us at the Catholic Leadership Centre from 22 to 26 May 2017 to be trained as tutors as part of the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) Tutor Training. We received some overwhelming feedback. I believe it is one of the best professional development programs …
Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) is meant as a starter for people teaching ESL students - something to dip their toes in. It can’t push people too far and too fast because these people have probably not thought of language …