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This poster examines labor trends from the past and present to explore how future labor demands in ESOL might shift with the increase of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many praise how educators can save time with AI, but what's missing from this prediction? This poster explains the caveats entailed by such laudatory claims and how a field like education that's riddled with burnout won't be saved by AI hacks and shortcuts. Furthermore, those most impacted by labor shifts are marginalized already, and have the most to lose as work changes in uncontrollable ways. Come to discuss, raise awareness, and build hope.

This poster session shares emerging results from the development of the Multilingual Pedagogies Scale (MPS), developed by the researcher, to assess and support instructor readiness with multilingual pedagogies within the community college context. Designed to measure teacher attitudes toward multilingual pedagogies, the novel tool will benefit all instructors of multilingual learners.

CATESOL brings together so many voices. Members can join an unlimited number of Interest Groups. Our current array of IGs includes CIRT, CSU, IC, LGBTQ+, RW, RC, MW, NNLEI, OT, TELL, TEW, TOP, and USC! In this alphabet soup of acronyms, find a group of like-minded educators to empower your voice.
Present and past IG Chairs and coordinators will be there to chat and orient you to what each IG focuses on and which ones you should join.

This study aims to examine the perceptions of Korean pre-service elementary school teachers about education using technology on the basis of their self-efficacy and the challenges they may face when during the class. For this, 120 participants completed a survey including twenty closed-ended questions and one open-ended question. It was found that overall, the participants seem to feel comfortable in using technology in classrooms while they are not confident to appropriately use computer terminology and to evaluate proper software for teaching and learning. Concerning challenges, teacher-related, students-related, and other types of difficulties including technical issues were explored.

This poster session discusses the critical need for empowering TESOL educators through a sustained, collaborative, inquiry-based professional learning, especially as compared to 'one-and-done' workshops. Using a community college professional learning experience as a springboard, the presenters will showcase the benefits, challenges, and potential impact of this type of sustained learning on teacher praxis.

Racism has recently been studied in the TESOL field as part of teacher professional development and hiring practices (Bock Thiessen, 2021) and perspective of international users of English as part of language teacher administration (Raza & Eslami, 2024). In exploration of topics related to racism in CATESOL it is favorable to emphasize the empowerment of all CATESOL voices. The objective of this poster session is to provide participants with the knowledge to implement solutions for responding to micro aggressions related to racism in CATESOL. The presenter will offer guidelines for navigating complex topics of racism with accompanying discussion questions.

This poster session outlines the steps followed to create a podcast. To address the results of a needs analysis, the podcast was designed to: 1) address the potential audience's interests, including the use of AI tools, teacher social-emotional well-being, etc., 2) be 20 minutes- long to maintain the audience's attention, 3) integrate visuals for maximum audience engagement, and 4) feature the voices classroom instructors.

The poster session displays the various aspects of the podcast design process, provides a fail-proof set of ideas on how to design a podcast, and describes the role played by the classroom instructors in the podcast.