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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Being a TESMC tutor: Karen’s feedback
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 …
Being a TESMC tutor: Bronwyn’s feedback
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 …
Teaching Young Children in English in Multilingual Contexts – Shanghai, Nov 2017
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 …
Being a TESMC tutor: Lisa’s feedback
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 …
Being a TESMC tutor: Peter’s feedback
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 …