TESL Ontario Blog

In 2024, the federal government introduced significant changes to its immigration policy, reducing the cap on international study permits and tightening eligibility for temporary foreign workers and perm...

I teach Literacy and CLB 1. Pictures can help students understand, but I have found that having a speaker and audio version of the students’ language is also very useful. So, I purchased a portable speaker a few months ago. It’s about the size of your hand, and I use it in the classroom. I connect to it using the Bluetooth on my iPhone. I use Google Translate and for words th...

In language teaching, considerable time and energy are often devoted to planning the beginning and middle of a lesson. Teachers carefully select engaging warm-up activities, activate background knowledge, introduce vocabulary, model language structures, and design meaningful tasks th

Artificial Intelligence is an exciting innovation which is taking the world by storm. Teachers and students are discovering the endless possibilities it offers, such as saving time searching for ideas, drafting, and assisting with various tasks. AI is a powerful tool, but in the hands of the uninitiated, it can lead to ethical issues. One can imagine t...