TESORKs

Outline/proposal

What it stands for: TESOL WORKs – three letters of each word

What TESORKs is: A platform (Website) for MATESL program to present
their work to the community/prospective students
Why TESORKs: The benefits of this platform will be for both students
and the MATESOL Program and they include but not
limited to:
For students:
• Learning about the process and procedure of writing for
publication
• Publishing their works including articles, websites, portfolios,
reflections, presentations and/or projects J
• Learning about the process of reviewing for publication

For MATESL Program:

• Having their own publication website
• Marketing for the program
• Collecting students works (like a database) to be used many
times for different reasons including citing each other,
building on each other, and/or learn from each other

What we would need:

• Editor and reviewer team
How it works:
• Collecting works from different classes like Pedgram,
Literacy, Research. Or from different projects/programs like
GECO, KSPS-GU Project, and Older Outreach ESL, and Sarah’s
project;
• Submitting them to the editor and reviewer team (the criteria
should be used could be an adopted criteria from other corps OR could be a rubric
from a class)

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 How it looks like: The following is a screenshot of how the platform will
look like (I made it J )

TESORKs
Think, work, and inspire others

ARTICLES PROJECTS PRESENTATION REFLECTIONS WEBSITES

Frist Friday Forum

Local Conferences
Documentary-Based Learning Guides:
from Scaffolding to Lesson Plann National-Wide Conferences

Ali Asiri (December 18th, 2018) Professional Developments

Others

The importance of working on this project with KSPS was not limited to applying what I had Announcements
learned during the MATESL program at Gonzaga University. The main aim of this project was to
design learning guides to make the documentaries more accessible for both teachers and students.
Throughout the procedure of designing the learning guides, I had the chance to scaffold the learning
guides. In other words, I had the chance to practice producing scaffolded materials as I had learned
during my MATESL program.

Potential Audience

Besides KSPS’s audiences who are K-12 teachers in Spokane School District, an additional
audience of this paper is the Saudi teachers. During my teaching experience in Saudi Arabia, I did
not explore lesson planning, nor did I scaffold materials in lesson planning or execution. The
purpose of this paper is to provide Saudi teachers with explanation and examples of lesson planning
as well as scaffolding. I hope this paper will give them an opportunity to observe the benefits as
well as the theory and practice of both lesson planning and scaffolding.

O T H E R S !
Collaborating with KSPS

Before presenting our partnership between Gonzaga University and KSPS, it is important to know
what the KSPS station is. KSPS is in affiliation with Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). KSPS
Education produces free learning resources for both U.S. and Canadian educators, summer learning Click Here To Submit A
resources, K-12 learning resources and professional development workshops for local teachers. It is Proposal
worth to mention that all learning guides and educational sources on the KSPS website are
reviewed and accepted for publication by PBS. In other words, all the learning guides that were
created for this project are reviewed, accepted for publication by PBS, and available online.

For the purpose of this project, our team, including Bukola Brzezinski, the education director,
Rosemary Colón and I as MATESL graduate students, used documentaries that were produced by
KSPS. The attention of this collaboration started with the initial act of KSPS looking for candidates
with ESL/EFL teaching experiences. R e a d M o r e

From a community perspective, this collaboration encouraged the

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About the author
children’s education that local affiliates provided. Kemp (2017)
believes that collaboration between schools and community
reinforces the values of the community. In other words, the
importance of this type of collaboration reflected the community
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values of Pacific Northwest. In our collaboration with KSPS, our
team created materials that reflected the beliefs and the values of