Welcome to the TESOL Resource Center

This keynote reflects on the connections between our lived experiences and their impact on our conceptualizations of (next-gen) TESOL practices. Taylor explores the role of the practitioner at three stages—preparing for the profession, persevering in it, and envisioning possible futures for TESOL—and also considers the practical implications of these stages.

National Geographic Explorer and storyteller Tara Roberts embarked on a life-changing journey alongside a team of Black scuba divers in search of slave shipwrecks around the world. Roberts documented her travels and the stories of the divers, historians, archaeologists and communities she met along the way for the critically acclaimed National Geographic Society-funded podcast series, Into the Depths.

In our connected world, tragic events can have a far-reaching impact on our communities and our students. As educators serving multilingual learners of English we need to have the resources, knowledge, and skills to navigate through tumultuous times and support ourselves, our students, and their families.

TESOL has compiled these resources from various organizations to aid educators in the classrooms and beyond. We will continue to seek out and add to this list and invite your suggestions at advocacy@tesol.org.

TESOL partnered with Microsoft to create awareness of their category of tools called Learning Accelerators, specifically Immersive Reader, Reading Progress, and Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams. Learning Accelerators are learning tools included in Microsoft 365 for Education, at no cost to educators, that help teachers’ professional practice and strengthen student independence in their English language development.

This guide outlines multiple ways teachers can use the Microsoft literacy tools as an autonomous classroom resource to boost language and literacy development in tandem. It provides concrete, practical classroom activities across a range of contexts and student proficiency levels for use in classrooms with multilingual learners of English (MLEs).

Is there such a thing as "diversity for diversity's sake" or is diversity a metric worth pursuing? It turns out that the answer is the same regardless of whether you're discussing biology or biologists. In this presentation, you'll get a better understanding of why ecosystems thrive with diversity, why human systems follow the same pattern, and what the major barriers are to achieving diversity in natural and man-made contexts.

How can we support young learners as creative writers through digital tools?

A traditional get-to-know activity adapted to increase engagement in online synchronous language classrooms.

Engaging learners in synchronous online teaching requires you to adapt your techniques that you use in physical classrooms.

Young English learners have unique learning needs and experiences that require a creative and responsive approach to teaching. Join this dynamic discussion of research-based teaching practices that go beyond the basics to support a successful start to language and literacy learning. 

This speaking activity aims to help students use their imagination to guess the story behind a photo.