The ESL LINC Digital News provides professional teachers/instructors of English in Ontario with updates on the development of LINC courseware and updates, tips and secrets of using educational technology to teach language blended with technology.
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The LearnIT2Teach project has received confirmation that TESL Ontario Accredited Members can use the electronic certificates we issue to graduates of Stages 1 through 3 as proof for their PD hours required to maintain their Accredited Membership status. We have also been informed that Stage 4 course meets the standards for PTCT Accreditation and our Stage 4 course and certificate is in the process to be accepted for TESL Ontario Accredited members who have successfully completed the course and wish to apply to TESL Ontario for PTCT Accreditation.
Ontario ESL or LINC Centres
To book a training session for your LINC and ESL instructors there are three options:
Call (toll free) 1(855) 522-2221
Complete the online Form
Email Support at LearnIT2Teach.ca
What is courseware? More specifically, what is LINC courseware? I am starting Stage One of the LearnIt2Teach program and am hoping to use the LINC courseware with my students in the future. I still have not seen a live sample of LINC courseware.
If you want to experience “basic” LINC courseware surf to http://edulinc.ca/login/index.php, create an account and explore. edulinc is an Open resource that also hosts many of the core LINC courseware elements.
Also, Edulinc.ca is enabled for mobile learning. Click here for more information.
The Stage 3 participant’s manual now available at the Stage 3 course or from our portal. Click on this image to download.
The manual is a PDF version of the all of the elements covered in the Stage Three course. It is available for those who wish to print out the complete set of of instructions to be available as they progress through the Stage 3 course.
Edlinc Diaries sessions at TESL Ontario provided the instructor’s’ perspective on the LINC courseware and how they have adapted the LINC courseware for their LINC teaching purposes. The session was recorded thanks to TESL Ontario. When it is released the link will be available here.
(From left to right, Pamela Manson, Ellen Chassé, Karen Shiller and Kathleen Johnson)
Our team would like to thank the organisers of the annual TESL Ontario conference for the excellent conference. We would also like to thank Citizenship and Immigration Canada for their continuing support. As well we would like to thank all of the conference delegates who attended our sessions and engaged with us at our table and the informal get together late Thursday afternoon. Your opinions, ideas and contributions are invaluable to the progress and success of this project! We hope to steadily grow and improve our offerings to make your language teaching experience more efficient and effective.
At the TESL Ontario conference, LINC Administrator’s were invited to complete a survey to help our team integrate LINC administrator’s ideas and opinions into our LINC administrator manual and digital resources to be released in April of 2012. This survey is now closed, thank you for your contribution.
This video looks at technologies used in language training and how they have impacted an ESL teacher. Check out the LearnIT2Teach YouTube Channel.
Questions about our training?
Issues about your progress?
Wondering what the point is?
Want to know how to get started?
Or, just want to catch up?
We are available throughout the conference at Table 49.
Completing Stage 3 or Stage 4 of the LearnIT2Teach teacher training has been recognized by TESL Ontario as a Post TESL Certificate Training Accreditation Course. Upon successful completion of one of the stages, TESL Ontario members are encouraged to apply to the organization for the accreditation. However, if a teacher completed Stage 3 prior to July 2014, she or he is not eligible as the training stage has been modified to meet TESL Ontario PTCT criteria.
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