Table of Contents

Ó Part 1 – Introduction: The Writing Experience

Ó Part 2 – Thematic Essay
Exploring Fun and Meaningful Ways to Integrate Modern Technology in the Adult ESOL Classroom
Ó Part 3 – Reflective Essays

Language and Culture
  • Awareness: the relationship between language and culture
  • Attitude: desire to learn about and from people of other cultures
  • Knowledge: the nature and components of language, culture, and intercultural communication
  • Skill: explore and analyze linguistic and cultural phenomena and apply these analyses to teaching context(s)

Learners and Learning

  • Awareness: the relationship between learning and teaching
  • Attitude: willingness to allow learners’ learning to guide your teaching
  • Knowledge: learning differences: styles, disabilities, strategies, and processes
  • Skills: assessing linguistic and cultural needs and performance of students
  • Skills: designing and conducting teacher research projects (Ex #1)


Teachers and Teaching

  • Awareness: the impact of their teaching upon learners and their learning
  • Attitudes: willingness to change their teaching
  • Knowledge of theories and methods of assessment, both formal and informal
  • Knowledge of reflective teaching and experiential learning (Ex #2)
  • Skills: teaching reflectively by seeing, describing, inquiring into, and making hypotheses about students’ learning and the teaching context, and taking intelligent action based on this process (Ex #3)
  • Skill: creating and implementing effective and appropriate lesson plans and units


Self and Others

  • Awareness: the way feelings, opinions, and interaction styles affect others
  • Attitude: openness to and valuing of differences in people
  • Knowledge: theories and practices of group dynamics
  • Skill: observing and evaluating personal behavior and its impact on others, then modifying this behavior in the interest of the group
  • Skill: creating an environment where divergent views can be expressed and heard (Ex #4)
Educational Institutions, Communities, and Professional Life
  • Awareness: the connection of my work to the larger world community
  • Attitudes: responsibility for the needs of students, colleagues, institutions, and larger communities
  • Knowledge: policies, procedures, and practices of schools and educational institutions and how these impact on their teaching
  • Skills: furthering education as a professional educator through contributing to the field and engaging in professional development opportunities
  • Skills: participating actively in professional organizations (Ex #5)


Ó Part 4 – References and Index

References for the Reflective Essays

Index of Abbreviations

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