UPDATED Orientation to Avenue Course for TESL Students & Pre-service Teachers
Orientation to Avenue.ca is a brief, self-directed course created for TESL students, stakeholders, and interested language training professionals to help them understand how Avenue.ca is used and its role in Canadian immigrant settlement language training.
It’s Now Much Easier to Transfer Files Between Tutela and Avenue
The Avenue team is happy to announce a leap forward in the ease and convenience of transferring eLearning resources from the Tutela repository to the Avenue.ca learning management system. Teachers with both Tutela and Avenue accounts can now reach into Tutela to grab Word or PDF documents, media files, or eLearning objects like H5Ps or […]
Navigating Language Instruction in the Digital Age
An Avenue Video Testimonial from a LINC Professional Swati Sinha is a passionate and dedicated ESL instructor with extensive experience teaching in India and in Canada. Currently, she teaches both in-person and online at various levels in the LINC program at COSTI Immigrant Services. In spring 2024 New Language Solutions commissioned an expert team to […]
Coming in 2025: Language Volunteer Preparation for Newcomers in the Workplace
The Avenue – LearnIT2teach Project offers more than an online teaching and learning platform for settlement language training; Since 2018 we have also offered training and resources for language volunteers working with newcomers. New Language Solutions is growing that volunteer training to include preparing volunteers to support newcomers in employment preparation or the workplace. We will be piloting this latest iteration of volunteer training in the April 2025.
Été 2024 : Nouvelles brochures sur le didacticiel et le perfectionnement professionnel en français
Découvrez nos nouvelles brochures, désormais disponibles en lecture et téléchargement sur cette page. Elles ont été mises à jour pour vous présenter les étapes de formation des enseignants simplifiées et actualisées, ainsi que le nouveau programme et les fonctions améliorées du didacticiel pour les apprenants.
Updated for Spring 2024: Learner Courseware & Instructor PD Brochures
You can read or download our two project brochures on this page. They’ve been updated to describe the refreshed, streamlined teacher training stages, and the new curriculum and enhanced functions in the learner courseware. The PD brochure has useful information about the content and the format of the training stages, how long they take to […]
Major New Release: Avenue Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)
New Language Solutions is pleased to announce the release of our new learning technology standards. All concerned in their development hope the standards will benefit instructors, learners and programs in the settlement language training sector. The NLS team wants to reinforce the good practices sector pros already engage in and inspire them to reflect, explore […]
Avenue Learner Standards for TELL
The Avenue Learner Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) are designed to
give instructors and administrators a framework for providing lessons and course offerings that build
learner competence with technology, primarily for language learning and use. These standards are
meant to work in concert with Avenue Instructor Standards and Avenue Program Standards.
Avenue Instructor Standards for TELL
The Avenue Instructor Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) incorporate
the latest research and practices and are written in plain language. Every effort has been made to make
them user-friendly and accessible to the adult ESL/FSL sector. While these standards are designed for
language instructors, they can be helpful to program administrators as well.
Avenue Program Standards for TELL
The Avenue Program Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) are designed to
help those in decision-making roles in a language program. They provide guidance to administrators,
here defined to include both immediate and upper-level decision-makers such as funders, directors,
deans, and school boards. Program administrators can use the can-do statements to determine how
closely aligned their program is with the standards.
