NCTE 2025: Full Schedule

8:30am PDT

[Via Zoom] Preparing Students for Future Success in the Workforce LIMITED

Wednesday July 9, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT

One of the most important purposes of education is to prepare learners for success beyond the classroom, encompassing future jobs, future relationships, future associations, and future careers. Learning English by itself doesn't guarantee readiness for future challenges. Rob Jenkins, an ESL and professor and author, will share his expertise in motivating learners to pursue practical skills that create opportunities for satisfying careers.
He will accomplish this by advocating for the basics: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity that serveto build confidence and independence, leading to self-awareness and the confidence they need to successfully navigate the workforce. This approach will help adult students view their futures as an exciting adventure. Since education is really about our students’futures, it is our job to expand their vision by providing different perspectives that they may have never considered. Teaching with this objective motivates students to strive for more.
Classroom activities that continually help students look to the future and solidify personal goals, bring them to a common purpose. Once established, project-based instruction, and a lexical approach, take on more and deeper meaning, turning each class into anexploration of new ideas and opportunities.
Join us for this plenary session to learn how to implement these strategies and inspire your students toward success.

Speakers

Rob Jenkins

National Geographic Learning

Rob Jenkins is a retired Professor of English as a Second Language in the United States. During his 27-year tenure, he received various awards including the Best Practice of Model Program Award in 2013 from the Association of Community and Continuing Education in California (ACCE... Read More →

Wednesday July 9, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am PDT
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Plenary Session, ZOOM | Work Readiness, ZOOM | Employability Skills, ZOOM

10:30am PDT

[Via Zoom] Plenary 2 LIMITED

Wednesday July 9, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT

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William Little

Regional English Language Officer, US Embassy, Panama

William Little is a Regional English Language Officer (RELO) currently based in Panama City, Panama with a portfolio covering Panama and 19 countries in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. His previous assignments include serving as RELO in Dakar, Senegal and Jakarta... Read More →

Wednesday July 9, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
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Plenary Session, ZOOM

1:30pm PDT

[Via Zoom] The Grammar of Learners’ Lives LIMITED

Wednesday July 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT

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The best way to unmask learners’ command of grammar is to engage them in discovering for themselves how, when, and why particular grammar points are used in English. To do this, language forms can be introduced through content-rich, rigorous instructional tasks that mirror learners’ communicative needs. Learner output that naturally emerges while completing a task can become the basis for grammar instruction. This means that the content and tasks drive the choice of grammar to teach, rather than the other way around. See how this contextualized, interactive approach to teaching grammar engages learners with the language they need to meet the communicative demands of today’s world.

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Betsy Parrish

TESOL Program Professor, Hamline University

Betsy Parrish is a professor in the TESOL Program, teaching in the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Adult ESL Certificate, the ABE Licensure program, and the MATESOL. She has worked as an ESL/EFL teacher, teacher educator, writer and consultant for over 35 years. After... Read More →

Wednesday July 9, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
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Plenary Session, ZOOM | Grammar Instruction, ZOOM

5:30pm PDT

[Via Zoom] Reaffirming the Role of the Language Teacher in the Age of AI LIMITED

Wednesday July 9, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT

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As AI reshapes education, language teachers remain irreplaceable guides in learning. This interactive keynote explores how educators can leverage AI while preserving the human connection vital to language acquisition. Through live demos and discussions, we’ll examine AI’s potential and its limits, providing strategies to enhance engagement, critical thinking, and creativity. Walk away empowered to integrate AI effectively while reaffirming your role as a mentor and leader in English language education.

Speakers

Laura Baecher

Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Kean University

Dr. Laura Baecher is Associate Provost for Faculty Development at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Previous to that she worked as Professor of TESOL at the Hunter College School of Education, City University of New York where she also served as a faculty fellow in the Academic... Read More →

Wednesday July 9, 2025 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
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Plenary Session, ZOOM | AI, ZOOM | The Role of the Teacher, ZOOM