LIT2T Leadership Guide

49 TO: TABLE OF CONTENTS Does your SPO provide equitable access to participants by maximizing the use of online options for learning? How engaged are you and your staff in ongoing professional development? Is there sufficient technology support for teachers and learners? How does your program support the emergence of online learner communities? Are staff in your SPO empowered to implement blended and online learning into their classes? To respond to the challenges, it is our intention to provide training and learning materials for the settlement language training community so that instructors, learners and administrators can take advantage of the current tools and methods in the field of CALL, and avoid becoming overwhelmed by jargon and superfluous information. Additionally, instructors taking our training develop technical skills that can be applied to other CALL contexts, not just LearnIT2teach resources. Completing just two stages of the instructor PD opens the door to instructor customized courses for blended learning. Our training also helps instructors develop technical skills that can be applied to other CALL contexts as well as to the LearnIT2teach resources. The project prepares participants to facilitate a blended approach to settlement language training using the LINC courseware and go even further to become e-materials developers, if they choose. One of the anticipated results of this project is the emergence of instructors who complete Stage 4 of the training and are enabled to author SCORM learning objects and, we hope, share their work with other practitioners in the field. In response to this new world of technology, the LearnIT2teach Project is taking positive steps to train instructors on integrating technology and providing the learner courseware to support a comprehensive learning scheme. The learning and teaching elements are connected to LINC curriculum and existing classroom activities. By incorporating contemporary means of collaboration and communication such as podcasts, wikis, forums, active glossaries, messaging, blogging, social sharing and other Web offerings, the LearnIT2teach Project is helping to modernize the settlement language training delivery model. Our aim is to provide training and learning materials for the Canadian settlement language training community so that instructors, learners and administrators can take advantage of the current tools and methods in the field of CALL, without overwhelming the readers with jargon and unnecessary extra information. References Bouchard, P. (2013). Education Without a Distance: Networked Learning. In Nesbit, T., Brigham, S., Taber, N., & Gibb, T. (Eds.) Building on Critical Traditions Adult Learning and Education in Canada (pp. 305 – 315). Toronto, ON: Thompson Educational Publishing. Craig, A. (2009). Literacy matters: Helping newcomers unlock their potential. TD Bank Financial Group. Retrieved from http://library.nald.ca/item/8527 Blakely, & Singh, D . (2012). LINC and CLIC: Looking Back, Looking Forward. INSCAN, Special Issue on Settlement Language Training, 7-11. Dieleman, C. (2012). Provincial ESL Programming. INSCAN, Special Issue on Settlement Language Training , 12-15.