TESOL/challenges

TESOL Challenges
Below are some possible challenges to consider for anyone interested in teaching English to students of others languages (TESOL).

Planning

 * Prepare a lesson experience that considers how you prepare for both content and language objectives in the language classroom.
 * Prepare a lesson experience that considers how materials may be used to implement a meaningful and relevant educative experience for the English language learner.

Implementation

 * Implement a lesson experience that explicitly links understandings and language to the experiences of the English language learner.
 * Implement a lesson experience that explicitly links past learning with new understandings and language.
 * Implement a lesson experience that stresses key vocabulary words, phrases, idioms, etc.
 * Implement a lesson experience that makes input more comprehensible for the English language learner.
 * Implement a lesson experience that explicitly provides the English language learner with the learner tactics needed in order to succeed.
 * Implement a lesson experience interactive activities that provide learners more time on task.
 * Implement a lesson experience that provides learners to practice their understandings and language through the intergration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
 * Implement a lesson experience that ulitizes lesson delivery: aligns understandings and language objectives, affords student engagement, and takes in account proper pacing.

Assessment

 * Exercises a myriad of assessment types: traditional and alternative forms of assessment.