TESL Ontario Blog

TESL Ontario is pleased to announce that our 2026 Annual Conference will take place virtually from November 4–6, 2026, bringing together English language educators, researchers, program administrators, p...

A few years ago, I posted about my progress learning and adopting generative artificial intelligence as an educator. While writing the post, Climbing Up and Sliding Down the AI Slope of Enlightenment, I thought that within a few months and committed effort, I would achieve confidence and control of GenAI and its potential. How naive I was! In order t...

Written By Kelsey Ulrich-Verslycken & Eva Kartchava 

As L2 teachers, we know that learners expect us to provide them with corrective feedback (CF) –&n...

This year, I used Google AI extensively as my go-to teaching companion. Sometimes I just have a general idea about a topic I would like to teach my students so, short on time and really needing to flesh out the details, I turn to Google AI. It can give an overview of any topic and answer any question. What I found was so much more.

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Written by Cecilia Aponte-de-Hanna, TESL Ontario Board Chair

I didn’t keep a journal so looking back begins with recollecting key moments in my trajectory from TESL Ontario member to where I ...