What skills TEFL/TESOL/ELT teachers need to succeed in creating fantastic instructional designs?

Опубликовано: 01 Декабрь 2024
на канале: Bridge Education Group TEFL TESOL Certifications
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You’ve honed your English language teaching skills and know your participles, phrasal verbs and clause structures, so what’s next? Why not leverage your experience into creating custom courses! This is an excellent way to meet the needs of niche English language learning audiences. Plus, once you become proficient, there are opportunities to offer your course design services to companies as a side gig.

Join our expert panel to learn about instructional design, curriculum design and the differences between them, and how you can develop and employ your course design skills.

Panelists:

Cassy Huidobro is Bridge’s Instructional Design and eLearning Specialist, where she applies her background in education and passion for teaching to the development of training courses that empower global English language teachers. She recently helped launch the innovative Content and Language Integrated learning (CLIL) program for bilingual educators, and continues to collaborate on new courses every day, furthering Bridge’s mission to provide teachers worldwide with accessible, internationally recognized professional development credentials.

Sharon Tavares is a learning developer at IKEA, where she collaborates on global teams to design and develop digital learning solutions for thousands of retail coworkers. She believes learning should never be boring and is on a mission to shake things up. Before switching to the corporate world, Sharon spent 10 years facilitating, designing, and evaluating instructional materials for ESL teachers and students. She has worked as a senior teacher mentor at VIPKID, digital instructional designer at EDUKAN, and director of teacher training and curriculum design at CreaGenius. Sharon holds a master's degree in TESOL and is an IDOL Academy alumni. Sharon currently resides in the south of Sweden with her husband and three children in a home full of languages, books, and IKEA furniture.

This panel is hosted by Erin Hernandez:

Erin Shaw Hernandez is an experienced TESOL professional with expertise ranging from teaching in the classroom to owning and operating an accredited language school. She received a MA TESOL degree from Brigham Young University, and has extensive experience in curriculum and program development, teacher training, language assessment and program marketing. She currently teaches and offers private consulting for language teachers and programs through her company Larchmere Language Services https://larchmerelanguages.com/.