Full Description
This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of educating teachers and teaching second language learners in challenging circumstances around the world and how these innovations can transform education going forward into the future.
Paving the way for a revitalized profession, this book is essential reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars, graduate students, and professors.
Contents
Foreword List of Contributors Introduction [Liz England, Lía Kamhi-Stein, and Georgios Kormpas] Part I. Learning in English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times Introduction 1. Learning to Lead in Language Education [Andy Curtis] 2. Empowering Students to Utilize Their Full Language Spectrum: The Importance of L1 in These Changing Times [Sarah Sahr] 3. Top Ten Characteristics of 21st Century English Language Teachers [Willy A. Renandya and George M. Jacobs] 4. Training Teachers in an Interdisciplinary Approach through EMI: A Case Study in Greece [Chrysoula Lazou, Nikolaos Panagiotou, and Avgoustos Tsinakos] 5. English Language Teacher Education and Development through Language Teacher Associations: Opportunities and Challenges [Georgios Kormpas and Christine Coombe] Part II. Teaching in English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times Introduction 6. A Framework to ENABLE Teacher Learning [Gabriel Díaz Maggioli] 7. Team Teaching through the Voices of Teachers and Students in ELT Programs before, during COVID-19, and beyond [M. Martha Lengeling, Irasema Mora-Pablo, Amanda K. Wilson, and Edgar Emmanuell Garcia-Ponce] 8. Transforming Pre-Service Educators' Preconceived Ideas of Teaching General Education Content through Task-Based Hybrid Instruction [Kate Mastruserio Reynolds] 9. Learning to Surf the Pandemic Wave: Interventions for Wellbeing and Inner Peace in an EFL Practicum Course [María Matilde Olivero and María Celina Barbeito] 10. Leveraging Virtual Professional Development to Promote Computer Science Education for Multilingual Students [Donna Eatinger, Dana Saito-Stehberger, Susan Krause, Jennifer Tsan, Sharin Rawhiya Jacob, Mark Warschauer, and Diana Franklin] Part III. Leading and Management in English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times Introduction 11. Reaching Program Outcomes during Pandemic: English Language Teacher Professional Development in Uzbekistan [Joan Kang Shin, Rebecca Kanak Fox, and Dildora Khakimova] 12. TESOL Programs in Flux [Priyanvada Abeywickrama, Stefan Frazier, David Malinowski, and Scott Phillabaum] 13. Steering the Ship While Staying The Course: New Directions for Supervised Teaching in MA TESOL Programs [Laura Baecher and Beth Clark-Gareca] 14. Unravelling the Quality Conundrum: Teacher Education Program Administration in the New Normal [Bahar Gün] 15. Worldwide TESOL Career Path Development: We Lift Each Other Up When We Fall [Julie Lake and Liz England] Coda: Addressing an Unpredictable Future Index
