The School of TESL prepares people to teach second and foreign languages in a wide variety of arenas and circumstances. Whether in the United States or abroad, teaching children or adults, working with advantaged or disadvantaged students, our graduates will be:

Skilled

and therefore the School of TESL provides a teaching framework, Facilitative Language Teaching, in which students are fully trained and which instructors themselves model as they train. Students try out practical activities which they can use in hands-on teaching.

Knowledgeable

and therefore the School of TESL provides a program which builds upon recent research in language teaching, enables students to become familiar with terminology and views related to recent theories, and employs trained and experienced instructors who keep up with recent research.

Resourceful

and therefore the School of TESL presents a wide variety of teaching tools and trains in adapting those tools to various settings. The School of TESL requires students to work together on many projects to develop the skills of learning from self and colleagues as well as from instructors.

Compassionate

and therefore the School of TESL encourages discussion of the ethical issues of language instruction in its classes, confronts affective as well as cognitive variables in the ESL classroom, and requires cultural sensitivity and multiculturalism as a basis for all English language teaching.

Committed to professional growth

and therefore School of TESL students and instructors practice reflective teaching, continually reset objectives, and collaborate on projects. Instructors model involvement in professional organizations and encourage students to serve in professional TESL advocacy organizations. School of TESL students learn of the many avenues for continued growth as language teachers.