Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers: How to Be a Teacher with Convictions While Respecting Those of Your Students - Paperback

by Kitty Purgason (Author)

How to Be a Teacher with Convictions while Respecting Those of Your Students

This handbook is for people in the field of English language teaching who are looking for practical ways to be both committed followers of Jesus and ethical TESOL professionals. What do such teachers actually do in the classroom? What materials do they use? How do they relate to their students and colleagues in and outside the classroom? How can they treat students as whole people, with spiritual and religious identities? How can they set a high bar for ethical teaching?
Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers has grown out of Kitty Purgason's experience as a Christian seeking to follow the Great Commandment and the Great Commission, as a practitioner with a deep concern for excellence and integrity, and as a teacher trainer with experience in many parts of the world.

Author Biography

Kitty Barnhouse Purgason is professor emerita of TESOL at Biola University. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She spent six childhood years in India as a missionary kid and has taught in East Asia, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. She is a three-time Fulbright fellow and a U.S. State Department English Language Specialist. She is active in the professional associations TESOL, CATESOL and CELEA (Christian English Language Educators Association. She is the author of Professional Guidelines for Christian English Teachers (William Carey Library).