The ESL/ELL teacher's survival guide : Ready-to-Use strategies, tools, and activities for teaching all levels / Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski

Acknowledgements --
Contents --
Editors and Contributors --
Volume Introduction: What It Means to Be a TESOL Professional --
Language Teacher Professionalism: What Would Learners Say (WWLS)? --
Language Teacher Professional Identity --
Teacher Stress, Its Effects and Management --
Increasing Your Happiness Quotient --
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence Skills for Language Teachers --
How the Most Productive TESOLers Fit it all in: Strategies for Productivity and Efficiency --
A Paradigm Shift in Balancing Your Professional and Non-professional Life --
Developing a Personal and Professional Strategic Plan --
Listen and Ask, Visualize and Story-Tell: Communication Skills that Develop Our Professional Collective Efficacy --
Enhancing Your English Language Proficiency --
Developing Knowledge and Skills for Working with Conflict --
Professionalizing Your Use of Technology in English Language Teaching --
Establishing Your Online Profile --
Transforming Yourself into an Online Educator --
Developing Leadership Capacity in English Language Teaching --
Transitioning from Educator to Educational Leader --
Mentoring and Coaching for English Language Teachers --
Priming the Pump: Giving Back to the Profession --
Engaging in Reflective Practice: A Practical Guide --
Continuous Professional Development: The Seeds of Professionalism --
Creating Your Own Professional Development and Lifelong Learning Plan --
Conference Organization as a Path to Professional Development --
Engaging in Professional Associations: Professional Organizations as a Critical Component of the ELT Profession --
Professionalizing Practice Through Research --
A Research Group as a Professional Learning Community: Collaborations Within and Across Institutions --
Contextualizing Your Research Project --
Growing Our Research Impact --
Doing a Conference Presentation --
The World Needs You: Sharing Your Work and Getting Published --
Publishing Pedagogical Materials --
Navigating the ELT Employment Landscape --
Expanding Your Geographic Horizons --
Surviving the Promotion and Tenure Process --
Volunteering Professionally: Service to Your Profession, Your Colleagues and Your Community --
ELT Professionals Prepare for Retirement.

Written by leading experts in the field of TESOL, this book explores the literature on various topic areas and demonstrates how teachers can increase their levels of professionalism by acquiring some general and field-specific strategies. Being a teaching professional is not simply about having the right teaching qualifications and good academic standing, it involves a commitment to being innovative and transformative in the classroom and helping both students and colleagues achieve their goals. A dictionary definition of professionalism reads as follows: professionalism is the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person; and it defines a profession as a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation (Merriam-Webster, 2013). However, according to Bowman (2013), professionalism is less a matter of what professionals actually do and more a matter of who they are as human beings. Both ofthese views imply that professionalism encompasses a number of different attributes, and, together, these attributes identify and define a professional. The book is primarily intended for teachers at all levels and in all contexts who are interested in improving their professionalism and developing strategies that can take them to higher levels in the field of TESOL/ELT.