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Live Webinars

Offering Practical Supports to Disabled Language Learners

  • Susan Webb
  • May 21, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm EDT

Do you have disabled learners in your classroom? Would you like to learn about practical supports to help your learners achieve success in their English language training? If so, join us for this webinar.

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Student and Generative AI Curated Assessments

  • Sara Machan, OCELT
  • May 25, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

Have you been wanting to change the way you assess your students? Are you looking to make your assessments multifaceted and more creative?

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High-Efficiency Language Drills That Really Work

  • Sam Burns
  • June 18, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

Why aren’t my students producing what I taught them? How can I fit more language practice into the lesson in less time? Why do I feel like there is a big gap in my lessons between the presentation stage and the production stage?

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The Power of Teacher Agency

  • Mohammad Nabil
  • June 22, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

How can reflective practices transform your teaching and student performance? Imagine if a few reflective moments could boost your clarity, confidence, and impact. Come and find the power of reflective practices and learn how reflective purpose leads you through challenge, triumph, and professional growth.

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Voices and Vibes as Tools for Connection in Adult Autism

  • Viviana InĂ©s Canulli
  • July 20, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Webinar Series

Topical Questions

  • How do play and music support emotional regulation and learning in neurodivergent adults, according to the neurodiversity paradigm?
  • What playful and musical strategies can foster social connection, communication, and self-expression among neurodivergent adults?
  • How can facilitators adapt activities (games/songs) to stimulate different areas of adult development—such as cognitive flexibility, self-awareness, emotional literacy, and interpersonal skills—in inclusive learning environments?

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Practicing Multiliteracies Theory in the Adult Literacy Classroom

  • Mercedes Veselka, OCELT
  • July 23, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT
  • Do you feel stuck between what your literacy learners want, what the curriculum demands, and your own values as an educator?
  • Do you attend webinars, workshops, and professional development and leave wondering how the principles you learn apply to your work with adult literacy learners?
  • Do you desire engaging activities to support your work with literacy learners but feel stuck doing the same routines?

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Using AI to Code ESL Activities – Part 2

  • Sara Machan, OCELT
  • August 21, 2025
  • 8:00 – 9:00 pm EDT
  • Do you want to expand your coding activities and make them more complex?
  • Do you want to learn more AI prompts to code more challenging activities with photos and style?
  • If so, join our presenter so that she can show you more coding tips and tricks to make more challenging and dynamic games and activities.

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Differentiated Instructions for Mixed-Ability Classrooms

  • Samir Sefain
  • September 17, 2025
  • 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

If the following questions are relevant to you, then we encourage you to join us for this webinar.

  • What strategies can be used to effectively teach slow learners in mixed-ability classrooms?
  • What approaches are used?
  • How can I adjust the content, the process, and the assessment?
  • Can technology help me?

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Mentoring Events

Chapter Events

Mentoring Events

Chapter Events

TESL NYYR Virtual PD Event

  • Jen Artan
  • May 22, 2025
  • 6:30 – 8:30 pm EDT

Join your fellow TESL NY/YR chapter members for an engaging evening of professional development with Jen Artan, plus networking and exciting raffle prizes!

Register by Monday, May 12th to secure your spot!

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TESL Windsor AGM & PD Event

  • May 23, 2025
  • 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for the 2025 TESL Windsor Annual General Meeting and Professional Development

Venue: 3550 Forest Glade Drive, Windsor, ON

To register: https://forms.gle/5UjgrtpNC7dbWNbN9

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TESL Ontario In-Person PD Event

  • Ruba Kallab, OCELT
  • May 24, 2025
  • 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT

Healing Through Language: Trauma-Informed Practices in Adult ESL Education

Oakville-Trafalgar Community Centre
325 Reynolds St., Oakville ON

Do you have trauma-affected learners in your class? Then join us as we learn how to integrate trauma-informed practices in LINC and adult ESL classrooms to create supportive learning environments.

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TESL Waterloo-Wellington AGM & PD Event

  • May 24, 2025
  • 10:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT

Kitchener Public Library

Details coming soon!

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TESL Durham Spring PD Event

  • May 31, 2025
  • 9:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Whitby Public Library

More information coming soon.

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TOSCON 2025

  • June 7, 2025
  • 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT

Save the date! TESL Toronto’s annual spring conference, TOSCON 2025, is back!
This year’s theme, Voices of Diversity: Empowering Education Through Identity, celebrates inclusive education through identity, neurodiversity, plurilingualism, accessibility, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Join us as we share stories, strategies, and research that centre every learner’s voice.
For tickets and more information: https://bit.ly/TOSCON2025

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TESL Niagara Spring Conference

  • June 14, 2025
  • 9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT

Niagara College
Daniel J. Patterson Campus, Niagara-on-the-Lake

Workshops and Presenters

Leveraging AI for Innovative Teaching: Practical Applications for Educators – Kate Agar

Effective Modification and Strategies for Literacy Learners – Sam Banks & Dana Agostino

Workshop – Roshi.ai – Jonny Kalambay

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