If you have a request or suggestion for a workshop, or would like S-TESL to host a professional development workshop (for ESOL or foreign language teachers), please contact the Director.

Past Workshops

S-TESL has hosted a series of Saturday morning workshops from 2005-present.

Past workshops have included:

• Teaching Strategic Reading: Best Practice in Developing Proficient Readers, Dr. Lijun Shen
• Classroom Applications of Corpus Linguistics, Gena Bennett
• Balancing Multi-Level Needs in TESOL, Alysan Croydon
• Next Steps: Creating Job Training Programs or Bridge Courses for ESL Students, Elizabeth Hanson
• CALL Activities, Amy Fenning
• Insights from L1: Transferable Tools and Strategies for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Shawna Shaprio
• Strategies for Grammar: Verb Phrases and Noun Phrases, Dr. Nancy Ackles
• Pronunciation Activities for the ESOL Class, Caro Gerber
• Effective Applications of Technology in the ELL Classroom, Dan Noyes
• Corpus-Informed Activities for the ESOL Classroom, Robin Persiani, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA
• Separating Difference from Disability - Dr. Catherine Collier, Western Washington University
• Getting out of their heads: using movement to increase intelligibility for English language learners - Frieda Hoops, University of Washington. English Language Programs and Jennifer Haywood, University of Washington, English Language Programs
• Using Process Writing to Improve Writing Skills - Dorothy Zemach
• Working with Non Literate Students - Alysan Croydon