Contact Us
Phone:
800.257.7751
TTY:
802.258.3388
Fax:
802.258.3116
PO Box 676, Kipling Road
Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA
Contact us by email.
Our three key areas of concentration are:
1. Redefining Teaching and Learning in Schools -
an institution-wide reevaluation of teaching and learning values, and an incorporation of systemic change consistent with those values.
Offerings and strengths in this area include:
- Program, curriculum, and course design and evaluation
- Program, faculty and staff development
- Uses of technology
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of educational innovations
- Working with teachers and administrators to effect change
2. Providing Reflective Professional Development -
a process in which teachers investigate and critique their professional and personal experiences to improve their teaching and, consequently, to enhance their students' learning.
Offerings and strengths in this area include:
- Teacher observation and supervision
- Training of teacher trainers
- Teacher mentoring and peer coaching
- Teacher research
- Reflective teaching
- SIT TESOL Certificate Program
- Documentation of effects of teacher learning on student learning
3. Increasing Access to Second and Foreign Language Learning
Offerings and strengths in this area include
- Second/foreign language teaching methodologies
- Adult Literacy
- Academic skills (EAP) and business and professional language (ESP)
- Curriculum and materials design, development, and evaluation
