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An educator with over twenty years of experience in English language teaching and…
Articles by Sara
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The Power of the Intensive English Program
The Power of the Intensive English Program
By Sara Davila
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Finding Gaps in Your CEFR Aligned Curriculum using the GSE
Finding Gaps in Your CEFR Aligned Curriculum using the GSE
By Sara Davila
Contributions
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My classrooms always look like this. Students talking to each other, and me just wandering around...a good model for student centered learning…
My classrooms always look like this. Students talking to each other, and me just wandering around...a good model for student centered learning…
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Do you have an #AI policy, or are you just hoping that the whole AI thing will figure itself out? If you don't have an AI policy you are wide open…
Do you have an #AI policy, or are you just hoping that the whole AI thing will figure itself out? If you don't have an AI policy you are wide open…
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I am excited to share that Seneca Polytechnic now has an agreement with ILAC language schools for postgraduate and bachelor’s programs. Students who…
I am excited to share that Seneca Polytechnic now has an agreement with ILAC language schools for postgraduate and bachelor’s programs. Students who…
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Experience
Education
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Walden University
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Coursework focused on development of curriculum using targeted instructional strategies (tasked based learning, differentiated instruction, problem based learning, cooperative learning) and assessment practices (student involved assessment, high risk test assessment, formative assessment, performance assessment).
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Coursework involved reading numerous source works covering the body of western philosophy from the Greeks through modern existentialism and post modern theory. Coursework also included history of literature, music, art, and the natural and advanced sciences.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Materials Creation
Sara Davila Consulting and Development
- Present 10 years 11 months
Education
Continuing to provide materials and curriculum for free for EFL/ESL educators around the world. Materials available online at http://www.saradavila.com
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SIT TESOL Course Assessor
World Learning
- Present 8 years 8 months
Education
Volunteer to observe and evaluate SIT-TESOL courses to ensure consistency of delivery and adherence to World Learning/.SIT-TESOL standards.
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Educational Consultant
Shimer College
- 2 months
Education
*Volunteered consultation time on improving assessment measurements for the scheduled Higher Learning Commission review of Shimer College.
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Volunteer Expert Rater Young Learner Objectives
Pearson English Business Solutions
- Present 9 years 5 months
Education
The project to level GSE Learning Objectives has involved thousands of experienced ELT teachers from over 50 countries. I attended a training workshop to learn about the CEFR and the Global Scale of English project. I reviewed and rated the difficulty of newly created learning objectives – on either the Global Scale of English or the CEFR. This project is designed to improve the ability of English language educators to describe student experience and progress on their English learning journey.
Publications
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Preparing students for success using the GSE Teacher Toolkit
Pearson
Language acquisition is not a linear process and each level of the CEFR covers a wide selection of language skills. When an institution uses the CEFR to create a program to meet the needs of the largest number of students possible, or the average student, it can be very easy to spend a lot of time focusing on the same skills over and over again. In this scenario, students below or above average often suffer, either not progressing in their language skill, or being denied new progress because of…
Language acquisition is not a linear process and each level of the CEFR covers a wide selection of language skills. When an institution uses the CEFR to create a program to meet the needs of the largest number of students possible, or the average student, it can be very easy to spend a lot of time focusing on the same skills over and over again. In this scenario, students below or above average often suffer, either not progressing in their language skill, or being denied new progress because of a focus on repetition.
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Preparing Today's Language Learners for the Future of Work
PAIS Newsletter - TESOL International Special Interest Group Publication
What does the future look like and what does it mean for English language learning? As more emphasis is being placed on language development as a key factor of future success, it's important for language educators to consider: What do we need to know today to prepare our students for the needs of tomorrow?
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Curriculum Auditing and Program Development: using the Global Scale of English to review and develop English language programs
Pearson
A review of the process of using the Global Scale of English and CEFR research calibration to audit an existing language program and develop a new language program.
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How to use the Global Scale of English to Boost Learner Engagement
Pearson
Imagine you are watching or teaching a class and you notice that one student in the group has clearly become disengaged. Perhaps they are playing with a pencil, or staring off into space. In any case, you notice that they’re not focused on the content and activities you’ve worked so hard to make useful, engaging, and interesting. What is the problem and where have things gone wrong?
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When One Size Does Not Fit All
Language Magazine
An introduction to the application of the Differentiated Instruction Framework for language teaching.
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The Role of Learning Objectives in the Language Classroom, Part 2
Pearson
Learning objectives should instead provide guidance to teachers when constructing a curriculum and allow them to see the overall plan of how and when learning will take place, with clear goals.
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The Role of Learning Objectives in the Language Classroom, Part 1
Pearson
What does it mean to be a teacher today? When we, as educators, are asked to demonstrate our learners’ successes through quantifiable means such as assessments, outcomes, curriculum, course book completion and objectives, it can be a difficult question to answer.
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Scaffolding: Giving primary pupils the support they need
Pearson
A deeper examination of scaffolding in the primary classroom, with an review of how to design lesson plans that build in support to achieve the objective utilizing resources and materials used in day to day teaching.
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Examining Scaffolding: Providing support for learning challenges
Pearson
In introduction to scaffolding and how scaffolding can provide classroom support to primary learners.
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Teaching in the Zone: The Learning Sweet Spot
Language Magazine
I want to get my language students to the next level, but I have limited time to make progress and don't know where to start. Everything is either to easy or to difficult, so what do I do? In this practical article we explore how to gauge learner ability and use this information with research informed tools to target the zone of proximal development: the learning sweet spot.
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How do I create a GSE Job Profile and what can I do with it?
Pearson
Many learners and employers value English skills for career placement and growth. What language skills do you need to get and maintain a job? How can you grow your language skills to reach the next stage in a chosen career? The Global Scale of English Job Profile helps educators and learners gain insight into the language related to over 250 different career paths.
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Intuition vs. Science: Targeting Challenge in Language Classes
Hawaii TESOL
When planning your English language curriculum, what rules the complexity of your program: your intuition about what learners need or scientific measures of what students need? It seems like a trick question, yet there is still room for improvement in the application of rigor to the development of English language learning programs. In this article, we explore how to use research driven information to audit, validate and improve language learning programs.
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Teaching in the zone with the Global Scale of English
Pearson English
What is the zone of proximal development and how can we target teaching to take advantage of the zone using resources like the CEFR and the GSE?
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Scaffolding: the art of building with the GSE
Pearson
What is scaffolding and how does it work in an English language lesson. In this in-depth article we explore how to assess the use of scaffolding in your lesson plans and how to go further using tools like the Global Scale of English to validate and improve upon scaffolding offered in class.
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How to use the GSE to Validate and Improve Course Performance
Pearson
There are a number of practical applications for the Global Scale of English and none more valuable to schools than using the GSE as a way to improve course performance through auditing of learning outcomes. In this article we discuss the practical applications and review a model of a school in profile using the GSE as an auditing tool.
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Transferring Skills for University Success
Always ESL Newsletter
What do you do when your learners are college ready, but still not college ready? For teachers with students whose English is deemed good enough for entrance to the university but are still asked to do a semester of remedial English to prepare for class is a real challenge. The reality for learners is that what is required to achieve success in University studies requires much more then improving reading skills or refining grammar. What can a teacher do to streamline a class for university…
What do you do when your learners are college ready, but still not college ready? For teachers with students whose English is deemed good enough for entrance to the university but are still asked to do a semester of remedial English to prepare for class is a real challenge. The reality for learners is that what is required to achieve success in University studies requires much more then improving reading skills or refining grammar. What can a teacher do to streamline a class for university success? In this informative article teachers will get insight into planning and classroom content with an appropriate challenge that will ensure students are college ready in a short amount of time.
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Reaping the Value of the Global Scale of English
English.com Blogs
Having a solid understanding of the level of ability of learners to perform with specific skills can help me target my teaching to utilize learner strengths to help build skills where learners are weak. This is where tools like the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the Global Scale of English (GSE) become extremely useful. In this article I explore how to leverage internationally validated descriptors to create content relevant and appropriate for learners.
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Is Your Content Challenging Your Learners?
Always ESL Newsletter
Do you feel like your learners are constantly in the same place, learning the same things over and over again? You may not be wrong. In this article I explore practical applications for assessing your content and determining if that content provides an appropriate challenge to help your learners stretch their skills and move forward to the next level in language learning proficiency.
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Preparing Intermediate and Advanced Learners for EAP Studies: More than a One-Size-Fits-All Approach
Always ESL Newsletter
What happens when your EAP students are highly advanced communicators? Is there still a difference in learning needs when a learner reaches a B2 level of mastery? Is the content for a B2 level student the same as the content required at a C1 level? As the modern learner begins to demonstrate proficiency beyond B2, it's time to take a serious look at the difference in learning needs for the the advanced and highly advanced EAP course.
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Redefining Proficiency
The Language Magazine
As language teachers, it's time we get to better clarity and accuracy when it comes to describing learner performance. If you haven't started to use tools like the CEFR and Global Scale of English, you will find some good reasons for considering a change in how you talk about your learners and their level of abilities in English in this feature article for the Language Magazine.
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Communicating Performance: What does “intermediate” mean to you?
Always ESL NewsLetter
One of the greatest challenges in language teaching continues to be communicating student performance. Given that the name of the language teaching game is communication, this is perhaps the biggest irony. While the underlining pedagogy of language teaching has changed radically in the last 30 years, many teachers still describe their students in terms of “beginner” “intermediate” or “advanced.” These general catchall terms only occasionally function as indicators of performance, largely due to…
One of the greatest challenges in language teaching continues to be communicating student performance. Given that the name of the language teaching game is communication, this is perhaps the biggest irony. While the underlining pedagogy of language teaching has changed radically in the last 30 years, many teachers still describe their students in terms of “beginner” “intermediate” or “advanced.” These general catchall terms only occasionally function as indicators of performance, largely due to interpretation. So, what can we do to address this problem? This article explore ways to improve our ability to describe and understand our learners and their learning needs.
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EAP - a long journey starts with knowing your learner's first steps
Modern English Teacher
How granular insight into learning can improve the quality of instruction and adjust learner progress for continued success in academic English programs.
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Transitions: Life, Learning and Language
The English Connection
An overview of 21st Century Skills, The Global Scale of English and FLIPped Learning.
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21st Century Skills and the English-Language Classroom
KOTESOL Online Learning Journal
What are the 21st Century skills and why should English language teachers be ready to work with them?
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The Language of Employee Engagement
Rosetta Stone with Chief Learning Officer Magazine
What is the overall value to an organization of providing language acquisition programs? Initial findings indicate that learning a second language improves employee engagement, commitment, and retention in an organization. This paper explores the impact of employer provided language learning services on the employee.
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Thinking Financial
Page 40, Workforce
Understanding the impact of financial benefits as an incentive that supports talent retention and recruitment.
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An Untapped Opportunity: Time Off and Leave are Low Cost High- Value Recruitment Tools
Page 39, Workforce
An examination of how leave and leave policies can be among the best tools for maintaining and recruiting key talent.
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2014 Diversity Value Index Benchmarking Report
Diversity Executive
Designed to enable action as well as deeper knowledge of the significance of the D&I function, the report identifies best practices that distinguish the leading organizations from the rest and directly connect an inclusive workforce with improved organizational performance. The report includes sections that give a detailed explanation of the program’s purpose, development and framework, as well as access to the 2015 DVI application and the rubric judges use to score participating organizations.
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2014 LearningElite: Best Practices and Benchmarking Report
The 2014 LearningElite Best Practices and Benchmarking report contains the background of the LearningElite program, the selection process and a synthesis of the elite practices contained within five dimensions: learning strategy, leadership commitment, learning execution, learning impact and business performance results. A valuable reference both for LearningElite organizations and those that wish to benchmark with the LearningElite, this report provides an inside look at the world’s top L&D…
The 2014 LearningElite Best Practices and Benchmarking report contains the background of the LearningElite program, the selection process and a synthesis of the elite practices contained within five dimensions: learning strategy, leadership commitment, learning execution, learning impact and business performance results. A valuable reference both for LearningElite organizations and those that wish to benchmark with the LearningElite, this report provides an inside look at the world’s top L&D organizations, as well as rigorous analysis of the L&D value chain and its link to successful business results.
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Recruiting Time: Cloud Services are Revolutionizing the Talent Aquisition Space in Real Time
Page 34, Workforce
What are the benefits of cloud based services and SaaS for modern HR?
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The 2014 Business of Healthy Employees: A Survey of Workplace Health Priorities
VirginPulse with Workforce
In response to epic levels of employee disengagement, how can organizations leverage health and wellness for a healthier, more productive, workforce? This white paper exams employee perception of health and wellness programs, reporting on the significant gains for companies that take advantage of opportunities to provide more avenues for healthy decisions.
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Why Cloud-based Workforce Management is an Enterprise Essential
Page 38, Workforce
Are cloud-based services ready for the scope and scale needs of workforce management?
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David vs Goliath: The Talent Management Outlook in Midsized vs Large Markets
Cornerstone OnDemand with Workforce Magazine
In the 2014 Workforce Talent and Workforce Management Outlook survey, Human Capital Media Advisory Group, the research arm of Workforce magazine, in partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand set out to discover where HR leaders are seeing their greatest successes and feeling the greatest pain. Additionally, we explored how HR leaders are setting priorities for the coming years. While there are surveys that address how the needs of HR vary, many focus on the difference between small and large…
In the 2014 Workforce Talent and Workforce Management Outlook survey, Human Capital Media Advisory Group, the research arm of Workforce magazine, in partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand set out to discover where HR leaders are seeing their greatest successes and feeling the greatest pain. Additionally, we explored how HR leaders are setting priorities for the coming years. While there are surveys that address how the needs of HR vary, many focus on the difference between small and large organizations with the assumption that midsized organizations are similar enough to large organizations not to require extra focus. To get a different perspective, we looked specifically at how the HR function in midsized organizations compares to their much larger counterparts. Are they as similar as is popularly believed?
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Great Leaders Revealed: Competency Models for Improved Candidate Screening
Page 32, Workforce
Can improved methods of talent screening improve the success rate of leadership?
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InFocus Level 1-3Teacher's Manual
Cambridge University Press
A collection of teacher's resource manuals for the InFocus course. "In Focus is a three-level series for adult and young adult learners. It draws upon unique corpus research to provide a lexical syllabus comprising the most important words for learners of English. In Focus is designed to build vocabulary, reading, critical thinking, and discussion skills."
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The Ancillary Revolution: How Ancillary Benefits Have Become a Competitive Advantage in the Wake of Health Care Reform
EyeMed in partnership with Workforce Magazine
Organizations that offer a variety of benefits options for their employees to choose from can gain a distinct competitive advantage. Offering benefits is the first step in providing employees with quality health care that can distinguish an organization as a top employer. EyeMed, surveyed 552 business leaders to better understand the benefits of offering multiple benefits options to employees. This survey revealed that while a majority of organizations recognize the value of choice in medical…
Organizations that offer a variety of benefits options for their employees to choose from can gain a distinct competitive advantage. Offering benefits is the first step in providing employees with quality health care that can distinguish an organization as a top employer. EyeMed, surveyed 552 business leaders to better understand the benefits of offering multiple benefits options to employees. This survey revealed that while a majority of organizations recognize the value of choice in medical care benefits, there is still room for improvement in organizations offering a variety of ancillary benefit options.
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Adapt or Perish: How Evolution is Keeping the ATS Alive
Page 35, Workforce
Yesterday's ATS systems no longer provide all the services recruiters need. How are systems evolving to meet the challenges of today's HR needs?
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It's Not One-Size-Fits All: Changing How We Think About RPO
Page 27, Workforce
How do RPOs move organizations from reactive to proactive hiring strategies?
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Connecting the Dots: Using HR Mobile Applications for Talent Management on the Go
Page 49, Workforce
An examination on the impact of mobile technology for improved talent management, including engaging, evaluating, and retaining a high quality workforce.
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State of the Industry: A Pulse on Social Learning
Saba Software in partnership with HCM Advisory Group
During the last two years we have seen how knowledge management and leadership development via learning are being incorporated more frequently as strategies to increase organizational agility. Additionally, learning organizations that act as strategic enablers for the business are more focused on connecting people to people and content through knowledge management and social technology. Saba Software partnered with Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group to better understand how business is…
During the last two years we have seen how knowledge management and leadership development via learning are being incorporated more frequently as strategies to increase organizational agility. Additionally, learning organizations that act as strategic enablers for the business are more focused on connecting people to people and content through knowledge management and social technology. Saba Software partnered with Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group to better understand how business is taking advantage of social learning. In the 2013 survey, HCM examined how organizations are approaching social learning, which methods have proven to be successful and where challenges are experienced.
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Workforce Management Trend Survey 2013-2014
Workforce Software, LLC with Workforce Magazine
For the last three years WorkForce Software LLC, in conjunction with Workforce magazine, has endeavored to understand how the role of workforce management is changing and evolving. This year’s study both builds upon and branches out from the findings of these prior surveys. The survey questions explored three specific areas of workforce management:
• Labor compliance, with special emphasis on absence and leave management.
• Workforce management automation priorities and adoption…For the last three years WorkForce Software LLC, in conjunction with Workforce magazine, has endeavored to understand how the role of workforce management is changing and evolving. This year’s study both builds upon and branches out from the findings of these prior surveys. The survey questions explored three specific areas of workforce management:
• Labor compliance, with special emphasis on absence and leave management.
• Workforce management automation priorities and adoption trends.
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2013 Diversity Value Index Report
Diversity Executive Magazine with HCM Advisory Group
The 2013 Diversity Value Index Report delivers valuable, actionable intelligence your organization can use to set strategy, evaluate investments in diversity and inclusion and garner enterprise-wide support from stakeholders.
In addition to a detailed description of the DVI Framework and DVI Action Core — the key components used to examine an organization’s diversity — the report highlights best practices of participating organizations, including insights on why these practices are…The 2013 Diversity Value Index Report delivers valuable, actionable intelligence your organization can use to set strategy, evaluate investments in diversity and inclusion and garner enterprise-wide support from stakeholders.
In addition to a detailed description of the DVI Framework and DVI Action Core — the key components used to examine an organization’s diversity — the report highlights best practices of participating organizations, including insights on why these practices are adding rigor to the diversity and inclusion industry and improving organizational value. It also outlines the implications of continuing improvement in understanding the value of diversity, specifically moving beyond demographic statistics toward determining the locus of value for an organization and how to use its diversity to produce that value. -
2013 LearningElite Best Practices and Benchmarking Report
Chief Learning Officer Magazine with HCM Advisory Group
This annual report contains the background of the LearningElite program, the selection process and a synthesis of the elite practices contained within five dimensions: learning strategy, leadership commitment, learning execution, learning impact and business performance results. This report also makes note of common practices across the LearningElite organizations and specifically cites some of the noteworthy, unique practices in each dimension.
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The Business of Healthy Employees: A Survey of Workplace Health Priorities
VirginPulse with Workforce Magazine
An examination of how employers and employees are approaching the expanding reach of Health and Wellness programs and offerings. What do employers offer? What do employees want? How will the industry change with improved incentives available from the ACA? The Business of Healthy Employees exams this and more.
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Advice for Classroom Management
The English Connection: KOTESOL Magazine
Guest columnist giving advice to EFL classroom teachers on behavior management.
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EFuture PYP Readers: Teacher Resource Books 1-6
Efuture
The Teacher's Resources Books (TRB) are designed as an inquiry based accompaniment to the Efuture PYP readers series. Each TRB contains over 70 activities designed to help learners explore, reflect, and apply information based on the Efuture PYP reading adventures series.
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EnglishCentral Textbook Series: 1-5
EnglishCentral
EnglishCentral: Practical is a blended learning solution coursebook designed to engage learners in language development and conversation with the use of entertaining authentic videos.
Each book takes thirty-six of EnglishCentral’s engaging and authentic English videos and brings them into the modern language classroom using an approach that is communicative and effective. For each of the course book’s twelve units, there are three high-interest videos providing practical language input.…EnglishCentral: Practical is a blended learning solution coursebook designed to engage learners in language development and conversation with the use of entertaining authentic videos.
Each book takes thirty-six of EnglishCentral’s engaging and authentic English videos and brings them into the modern language classroom using an approach that is communicative and effective. For each of the course book’s twelve units, there are three high-interest videos providing practical language input. Pre-watching, watching, and post-watching activities help learners comprehend and use the videos’ English and concepts. Humanistic task-based learning develops learners’ four skills. Vocabulary games, cultural notes, practical-usage tips, and reading activities complete each unit making the EnglishCentral series an exciting choice for ESL conversation or integrated-skills classrooms at the middle years to post-secondary levels. -
The New NEAT Test
Daegu Compass
Writing as a guest columnist to address a question from teachers about the new Korean National English Ability Test guidelines.
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Orientation Curriculum for GETS Teachers in Korea
Korean Ministry of Education Science and Technology
A comprehensive overview of the curriculum frameworks, benchmarks, and standards for new Guest English Teachers completing teaching appointments throughout the country.
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The Role of Learning Objectives in the Language Classroom, Part 2
Pearson
Forcing specific objectives on students who are not ready, is counterproductive. Instead, the day-to-day decisions in the classroom should be informed by observation and tailored through responsive teaching, creating optimum conditions for success.
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When One Size Does Not Fit All
Language Magazine
In most classrooms learners have varied different skills and abilities. In the language classroom, mixed-ability teaching can leave some students behind, others frustrated, and the average student underwhelmed with their learning. How can we develop language skills while teaching and planning lessons that create progress for all?
Projects
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University Success Series: The Path to Academic Success
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University Success is a three-strand developmental course designed for English language learners transitioning to mainstream academic environments. A targeted approach focuses on the unique linguistic needs of students while preparing them to achieve academic autonomy.
University Success integrates a three-part developmental approach. Authentic content woven through all three strands provides intensive skill development and expanded application — essential for students to become…University Success is a three-strand developmental course designed for English language learners transitioning to mainstream academic environments. A targeted approach focuses on the unique linguistic needs of students while preparing them to achieve academic autonomy.
University Success integrates a three-part developmental approach. Authentic content woven through all three strands provides intensive skill development and expanded application — essential for students to become confident and successful in a university setting.Other creatorsSee project -
Pearson Global Scale of English
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A new solution that is off the scale...
Global standards are everywhere. In business, energy, science and nature. Even chillies have their own scale! So why not English language learning? Why is there no single standard that every person, company and institution can use to benchmark learning progress? Well now there is - the Global Scale of English (GSE), the world’s first truly global English language standard which will allow you to measure progress on your English language journey…A new solution that is off the scale...
Global standards are everywhere. In business, energy, science and nature. Even chillies have their own scale! So why not English language learning? Why is there no single standard that every person, company and institution can use to benchmark learning progress? Well now there is - the Global Scale of English (GSE), the world’s first truly global English language standard which will allow you to measure progress on your English language journey. Our ultimate ambition is to provide you - wherever you are in the world – with the answers to these questions...
.....how good is my English?
....am I progressing?
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TYLC Materials
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Creating marketing and curriculum materials for private early-learning central. Wrote lesson plans. Edited pedagogical framework document, teacher training website, and lesson plans. Researched early-childhood education and inquiry-based learning programs. Created images and charts for pedagogical framework document. Designed pedagogical framework document. Designed lesson plans and all written materials for the school. Edited Prezi presentations for school promotion. Created mock videos for…
Creating marketing and curriculum materials for private early-learning central. Wrote lesson plans. Edited pedagogical framework document, teacher training website, and lesson plans. Researched early-childhood education and inquiry-based learning programs. Created images and charts for pedagogical framework document. Designed pedagogical framework document. Designed lesson plans and all written materials for the school. Edited Prezi presentations for school promotion. Created mock videos for school promotion.
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EnglishCentral Textbook Series: Books 1-5
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Development of a five level EFL series from concept to execution, including student books, teacher guides, and coordination with online support. Project included coordinating between three teams in three countries (Korea, USA, Philippines).
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Honors & Awards
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ELTons 2021 Digital Innovation Finalist
British Council
The ELTons celebrate the organisations, teams and individuals whose original approaches, products and services are shaping the future of English language teaching.
The Immerse VR English teaching and learning platform has all the tools and flexibility of the online learning environment, combined with the delight of traveling into a new world.
No longer do learners have to imagine being in a real-life scenario when practicing English. In VR, teachers and learners are fully present…The ELTons celebrate the organisations, teams and individuals whose original approaches, products and services are shaping the future of English language teaching.
The Immerse VR English teaching and learning platform has all the tools and flexibility of the online learning environment, combined with the delight of traveling into a new world.
No longer do learners have to imagine being in a real-life scenario when practicing English. In VR, teachers and learners are fully present in a 3D world together allowing for deeper emotional connection and enhanced social interaction.
Research on VR shows immersion in VR improves learner self-efficacy and motivation. VR immersion allows language learners to enter what research describes as a "flow state”: longer engagement, high focus, and minimal anxiety for maximum language progress.
Transform your English language learning experiences with Immerse VR.
"Immerse has enhanced my ability to teach effectively. It has opened my eyes to a whole new way of teaching and helping students experience language and culture." —Emma Weissburg, teacher
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Language Learning Innovation of the Year 2021
EdTech Breakthrough Awards Program
“For successful online learning, language learners need opportunities to fully immerse in a language, in spaces where language use is relevant, and fully engaging conversations with peers can happen spontaneously allowing educators to observe language development and progress,” said James Johnson, managing director, EdTech Breakthrough. “Whether it's classroom, distance, or hybrid learning, Immerse represents a breakthrough tool that delivers synchronous English language learning…
“For successful online learning, language learners need opportunities to fully immerse in a language, in spaces where language use is relevant, and fully engaging conversations with peers can happen spontaneously allowing educators to observe language development and progress,” said James Johnson, managing director, EdTech Breakthrough. “Whether it's classroom, distance, or hybrid learning, Immerse represents a breakthrough tool that delivers synchronous English language learning. Congratulations to the Immerse team on winning our ‘Language Learning Innovation of the Year’ award.”
The mission of the EdTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of educational technology categories, including Student Engagement, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM Education, e-Learning, Career Preparation and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 2,000 nominations from over 17 different countries throughout the world.
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ELTons 2020 Innovation in Teacher Resources Finalist
British Council
The ELTons celebrate the organisations, teams and individuals whose original approaches, products and services are shaping the future of English language teaching.
GSE Teacher Toolkit | Pearson English (UK)
The Global Scale of English Teacher Toolkit takes the guesswork out of student progress, with a free online database that brings together learning objectives, grammar and vocabulary in one place, all mapped to the GSE and CEFR.
The toolkit makes it easy to search for…The ELTons celebrate the organisations, teams and individuals whose original approaches, products and services are shaping the future of English language teaching.
GSE Teacher Toolkit | Pearson English (UK)
The Global Scale of English Teacher Toolkit takes the guesswork out of student progress, with a free online database that brings together learning objectives, grammar and vocabulary in one place, all mapped to the GSE and CEFR.
The toolkit makes it easy to search for appropriate content, adjust curricula and scaffold lessons, identifying any gaps and measuring learner progress accurately, and to deliver meaningful feedback. That way, educators and institutions can save time on admin and gain time for learner interaction.
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Honors for Educational Program Development
Gyeonggi English Cultural Foundation
Received for management of Curriculum Development team project to produce excellence in immersion language programs.
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Honors for Program Contribution
Gyeonggi English Cultural Foundation
Received for creation of new programs including family programs, weekend camp programs, day camp programs and exhibition style programs that contribute to immersion language learning practices.
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National Youth Service Award
Americorps
Received for contribution of 2000 volunteer hours in inner-city learning, including arts and music program development for at risk youth.
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2014-2017 LearningElite Judge
Chief Learning Officer Magazine
The LearningElite awards program honors the best organizations for learning and development. This robust, peer-reviewed ranking and benchmarking program recognizes those organizations that employ exemplary workforce development strategies that deliver significant business results.
Organizations
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KOTESOL
KTT Teacher Trainer
-Korean Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (KOTESOL) is the Korean branch of TESOL. KOTESOL brings together experiences educators from diverse backgrounds to share experiences, activities, and cultural while building solid foundations for language learners.
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Why would AI increase disparity? If it is banned, if teachers aren't trained to use it, if students aren't taught to understand and incorporate…
Why would AI increase disparity? If it is banned, if teachers aren't trained to use it, if students aren't taught to understand and incorporate…
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Sometimes “no AI” Is the answer, despite what we’re being sold. Every now and then I search for “AI tools for educators” just to see what floats to…
Sometimes “no AI” Is the answer, despite what we’re being sold. Every now and then I search for “AI tools for educators” just to see what floats to…
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I took content I created in 2006-2015 and ran it against GPTZero. Apparently, I am 80-90% AI! Are you also a part of the machine? 🧠 My initial…
I took content I created in 2006-2015 and ran it against GPTZero. Apparently, I am 80-90% AI! Are you also a part of the machine? 🧠 My initial…
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For this #TBL activity the students made 'action cubes' for scaffolding spontaneous, creative descriptive narration. Real talk: am I aging at all?…
For this #TBL activity the students made 'action cubes' for scaffolding spontaneous, creative descriptive narration. Real talk: am I aging at all?…
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