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Experiential Learning In The Covid-19 Era: Challenges And Opportunities For Esol Teacher Educators, Carolina Pelaez-Morales
Experiential Learning In The Covid-19 Era: Challenges And Opportunities For Esol Teacher Educators, Carolina Pelaez-Morales
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
Spring 2020, or the COVID-19 pivot, will be forever remembered as the semester that took educators by surprise. The challenges educators faced were numerous and they varied extensively depending on different variables like student level, subject, institutional support, among others. This article chronicles the journey of a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) educator teaching a TESOL methodologies course that used experiential learning in the form of classroom observations and reflections. Through vignettes of her experiences and those of her students, as they navigated the challenges of completing field-work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the educator discusses areas of …