Avenue Instructor Standards for TELL 02/05/24 version 1 NOTE FOR PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS 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. Instructors who are wellequipped to use technology effectively with their adult learners can create better course outcomes. Some of these standards are ongoing, such as those that encourage instructors to stay abreast of research and exemplary practice. Administrators can help create professional development opportunities for instructors to meet or exceed the standards. Administrators should also refer to the Avenue Program Standards for TELL and Avenue Learner Standards for TELL to find more guidance for their own actions. NOTE FOR TEACHER EDUCATORS The Avenue Instructor Standards for TELL target a sector that is populated largely by professional teachers with advanced degrees in TESL or a related field and in some cases many years of teaching experience. The standards are thus aimed at providing guidance for these teachers and the programs that employ them to improve their competence and confidence in integrating technology effectively in their online and blended language classes. It is meant to augment, not replace, whatever foundations of theory, research, and practice they may have received in their formal teacher education programs and subsequent professional development. Because these instructors have limited time available to accomplish this task, we have focused on producing standards that we believe are useful and achievable for most of them, along with support materials to connect to the realities of settlement language teaching. These standards provide a foundation for what should be an ongoing journey for language instructors in integrating technology in their careers. Teacher educators in master’s programs working with new teacher candidates over multiple semesters will be able to integrate technology throughout the graduate curriculum in a more robust and comprehensive manner than we can reasonably—and humanely—offer here. Those who provide professional development webinars and workshops can consider how these standards might fit into current and future offerings. We are grateful to teacher educators who offered feedback on earlier versions of these standards. A number of their suggestions have been incorporated in support and supplementary materials. The standards are being released with a CC-BY-NC license so that anyone can freely adapt and add to them as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular contexts.
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