Year: 2024

AI assisting a teacher in making teaching materials

Using AI to Create Supplemental Material Webinar

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In the last webinar of the Curriculum Initiative, Jolene Dykstra and Shannon Mann will discuss utilizing AI tools to generate additional material for your lessons. This hands-on webinar will offer an overview of popular AI tools and demonstrate how they can be effectively used to enhance your teaching materials. Participants are encouraged to have a browser open during the webinar to actively engage in practicing various techniques. This webinar is offered in partnership between CELEA’s Community-based ESL Group and TESOL Ministry.

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Can You Have an Effective ESL Ministry Without Using Christian ESL Materials?

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This article by Lonna Dickerson, Ph.D. was first published in 2010 by the Institute of Cross Cultural Training and has been shared here with ICCT’s permission. When planning your ESL curriculum, one of the most important decisions you make will be to choose your textbooks and other teaching materials. Especially if you are teaching in a

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Curriculum Panel Discussion, Selecting the Right Curriculum for Your Program

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Panelists Dianne Dow, Billy Haselton, and Marilyn Reedy are joined by moderator, Alisha Biler, current CELEA president in this fantastic panel discussion on curriculum. Grow your understanding of the types of curriculum available for adult ESL programs and how to select a curriculum that fits the needs of your students & is in line with your program’s purposes & resources. The panel will also discuss how to use curriculum effectively. This webinar is offered in partnership between CELEA’s Community-based ESL Group and TESOL Ministry.

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Bible Study or Engaging Bible Characters?

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by Tom Steffen, D.Miss. The setting was central Luzon in the Philippines. The audience was composed of a group of multi-aged Ifugao, most, if not all, could read at some level. The topic for the Bible study was contrasting the attributes of God and Satan of which I presented propositionally. My language-cultural abilities were sufficient

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Considerations for Implementing a Short-Term Community-Based ESL Program Abroad

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From: December 4, 2023 Special International Panel: Ashley Stamper M.A., David Catterick, Ph.D., Elisa Cara, Paulina Holzkaemper In this webinar, the international panel of coordinator, director and teachers reflects on their shared experience from planning through execution and debrief of an international short-term ESL Community-based program that served as a post-internship for teachers who had...

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English as a New Language (ENL)  in Metropolitan Illinois

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Our first ministry spotlight comes to us out of the US in great state of Illinois - where a lot of exciting community-based ESL programs are working to help immigrants and refugees in their communities learn English.
There are a variety of options for people to learn English through community and church-based programs in the Champaign/Urbana area in Illinois.  Most people take advantage of ...

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Connecting Students to the Community

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If you’ve ever moved to a new city, you know the feeling of starting over. Creating new routines and finding new connections are a normal part of adjusting to a new place. However, for someone learning English, making those connections can take much longer and be much more difficult to access or understand. Your students

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Making a Welcoming Classroom Environment for Your Students

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As Christians using English ministry to love our international neighbors, we know that it’s vital to create a classroom environment that feels welcoming and safe. Our students are entering a classroom that mostly or only uses English, is staffed by native speakers, and possibly is even in a church. All of these factors are understandably intimidating for

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Building Relationships in Church Based ESL Programs

Building Relationships in Church Based ESL Programs

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From: April 12, 2024 Presenter: Dr. Jan Dormer, Taylor University Forming friendships with people who speak a different language and have a different culture can be both daunting and rewarding. A strength of church based English language programs is that they can foster an environment for these relationships to form, but it doesn’t happen by...

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Focus on Learner Needs: Key 3

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This 3 part series is an excerpt from the the Institute of Cross Cultural Training’s “Reach Out With English” training and has been shared with ICCT’s permission. When planning a Sunday School curriculum, we often begin by focusing on people’s spiritual needs and then we think about how we can address those needs through our

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