SIOP
SIOP® Training 1-day, 2-day, or 4-day experiential workshops on the SIOP® model. Teachers experience every strategy as learners.
Experiential K-12 professional development built on the SIOP® model. Your teachers experience every strategy as learners before they use it with students. Not a lecture. Not a webinar. The kind of training that makes teachers say, 'This is the best PD I've ever had.'
I'm Dr. John Kongsvik, and for 25 years I've been training K-12 teachers to reach English Learners and every student in their classrooms. I do it using the SIOP® model the most widely researched framework for sheltered instruction in education - and I teach it the way I want your teachers to teach: experientially, interactively, and with zero percent sit-and-get.
Schools across the country choose TESOL Trainers because our training is different. Teachers don't sit and listen. They participate in real model lessons, experience strategies firsthand, and leave with practical techniques they can use Monday morning. That's not a tagline. That's what happens in every session I deliver.
Whether you need a one-day SIOP® introduction, a four-day deep dive through the English Learner Institute or a multi-year partnership with iCOACH peer coaching , we'll design a program that fits your school and transforms your teaching.
TESOL Trainers offers not only traditional training or online professional development, but also courses, staff development, and programs like SIOP to help English learners succeed.
Unlike other “sit and get” programs, no one comes close to the practical knowledge, engaging lessons and useful information you get with TESOL Trainers. You’ll be on the edge of your seat the entire time.
TESOL Trainers supports schools through effective K–12 staff development that helps teachers engage English Learners with clarity and confidence.
Join our online community, you’ll be a part of a network of like minded teaching professionals.
There are hundreds of PD providers in education. Here's what makes TESOL Trainers different:
I teach SIOP® using SIOP®. Participants don't hear about model lessons. They're IN a model lesson from the moment we start. Every strategy I teach, I model live. That's not theory - it's practice.
Teachers are engaged 100% of the time. In my training, there's no sitting and listening while someone clicks through slides. Teachers are active participants from start to finish - pair sharing, cooperative learning, sentence starters, hands-on activities.
Every strategy is classroom-ready. No adaptation needed. No extra prep time. The techniques teachers learn in my training can be used the very next day, in any subject, at any grade level.
iCOACH makes it stick. Most PD has a 10% implementation rate. Add our iCOACH peer coaching program and that number jumps to 90%.
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