BC TEAL is proud to present our 2025 Annual Conference: Disruptive Educational Practices: Strategies for Transformation.
Educators shine in times of change to face unexpected challenges. This is when creativity flourishes by combining proven practices with fresh and innovative ideas. These times call for transformation which can be rooted in tradition or experience, or it can arise through unexplored approaches. The synthesis of old and new ideas drives meaningful progress. Join other insightful and creative educators as we flourish within the power of our community.
Teaching in LINC requires specialized knowledge and specific training which can be overwhelming even to experienced EAL instructors. Teachers without understanding of task-based teaching, CLBs and PBLA have little time when starting a new position to grasp their program’s and students’ expectations before needing to deliver CLB-aligned lessons and PBLA assessments in class.While supports are available, such as the online CLB Bootcamp and facilitated PBLA training, these cannot always be completed before the first day of a teacher’s new class. From long experience, particularly with the high turnover of teachers due to illness, retirements, and changing of professions during and since the pandemic, and thesmaller number of teachers entering the EAL field, ISSofBChas developed a model to quickly and smoothly onboard new, inexperiencedand/or untrainedteachers to the requirements of PBLA and teaching in LINC.The process and components ensure teachers experience success and learn by support and immersion rather than feeling confused with too much to remember. The result, according to the new hires themselves, is a much higher degree of satisfaction with teaching in the LINC program, even with all its requirements. To support the sector and hopefully grow the pool of teachers wanting to work in LINC, the ISSofBCInstructional Coordinator teamwould like to share its successful model with other providers. Administrator participants in this workshop will have opportunity to share their issues with onboarding new teachers and then work through how thesecommon challenges are addressed in the ISSofBC
Lisa Herrera has an MA in Educational Administration from UBC and is a PBLA Regional Coach, training Lead and classroom teachers online since 2014. She taught in LINC for 15 years and has been the Lead Instructional Coordinator for ISSofBC LINC since 2008. Lisa has also been the... Read More →
