TELL Project

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Framework

Defining Teacher Effectiveness

The Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) framework provides a common language and definition of the model world language teacher. The criteria contained within the framework create a clear description of behaviors that model teachers exhibit.

Tools & Resources

Facilitating Teacher Effectiveness

The TELL Project is designed to offer support that facilitates language teachers’ professional growth. Teachers can self-assess, peer-assess or work with administrators to identify their level of effectiveness and set and monitor goals for professional growth.

Community

Supporting Teacher Effectiveness

Through a variety of in-person and online events, the TELL Project connects educators so that they can begin to facilitate their own professional growth and that of others and develop behaviors that model world language teachers exhibit.

Our Core Beliefs. Focused on Teacher Growth.

The identified teacher characteristics and behaviors represent the model world language teacher.

World language teachers can become models if the model teacher is defined.

The identified characteristics and behaviors are intended to guide individual teacher growth toward a model.

What the Profession is Saying:

TELL consolidates what the profession and research point to as the qualities and characteristics of effective world language teachers in today’s language learning settings. Adriana Melnyk Brandt

I know of no single instrument that better describes what it means to be an effective foreign language teacher; it is essentially the CliffsNotes version of hundreds of pages of documents books and countless hours of workshops and seminars.Dennis Groters (Arlington High School Texas)

The TELL Project is a ground-breaking effort that will have a major impact on our profession. For the first time we have a shared vision of what our teaching practice should and could be. It is as groundbreaking as the standards were!! BRAVO!!!!Helena Curtain (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

TELL serves as a powerful resource or guide to inspire teachers to develop personalized professional growth plans. I am thrilled that our profession has this framework and tool to enhance the professional culture and dialogue within our field.Robert Crawford (West Virginia Department of Education)

The TELL document has helped me to re-evaluate my teaching from a variety of standpoints; from how I plan and assess to how I collaborate with students and other stakeholders to how I set goals for becoming a more effective teacher.Dorothy McFarland (Lamar High School Texas)

The beauty of the TELL Project is that it enables teachers either individually or as part of a professional learning community to compare their own practice against researched-based characteristics of effective instruction.Deborah Robinson (The Language Flagship)

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