Empowering Teens to Make an Impact in the World Through English

Teaching English to teenagers can be challenging, but it can also be exciting and rewarding. Why not inspire them to learn English while empowering them to use this global language to make a positive impact in the world? Join us to learn how to engage your teenage English learners with exciting, real-world content and projects that promote 21st century skills, such as technology integration, critical thinking, and creativity. Examples from the second edition of Impact will be used to show what engaging and inspiring teen English learners looks like in practice. You will leave this webinar with new ideas to get your teens involved in your class, with each other, and with the world around them.

Dr. Joan Kang Shin is a Professor of Education at George Mason University and the Associate Dean for Faculty Success in the College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Shin specializes in teaching ESL/EFL/EAL to young learners and teenagers and has provided professional development programs and workshops to English language teachers in over 100 countries around the world. She is a Series Editor of National Geographic Learning’s young learner programs Welcome to Our World, Our World, and Explore Our World, as well as the teen program Impact, and an author of the professional development title Teaching Young Learners English.

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Dr. JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall is Professor Emerita and former Director of the Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. Program, and Co-Director of the MA TESOL Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Prior to joining the faculty at UMBC in 1992, she was Vice President of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC. Dr. Crandall is a Series Editor, with Dr. Joan Kang Shin, for Our World, National Geographic Learning’s program for young learners of English; Explore Our World, a light and lively version of Our World; Welcome to Our World, a three-level pre-primary series for very young learners of English; and Impact, Second Edition, for teenage learners of English.