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Description
As English classrooms in Viet Nam and comparable contexts move toward more interactive and ESL-oriented learning environments, blended learning must be designed as pedagogy rather than the simple addition of digital tools. This technology fair demonstration examines how blended learning can support differentiated TESOL instruction by integrating face-to-face teaching with purposeful digital pathways for comprehensible input, structured interaction, learner output, formative feedback, personalized pacing, and learner autonomy. The demonstration is grounded in research-informed evidence suggesting that well-designed blended models can improve academic performance, engagement, and knowledge retention when compared with exclusively face-to-face or fully online instruction. It also draws from the presenter’s experience as an appointed teacher trainer for a district technology integration cohort, professional certifications in Technology Applications, English as a Second Language, and Special Education, and classroom experience using one-to-one devices, Canvas-based learning management systems, and Google Classroom. Participants will explore station rotation models, digital learning pathways, assignment workflows, feedback routines, and formative assessment tools designed for multilingual learners and students with disabilities. The demonstration will show how blended learning can provide visual supports, accessible materials, repeated practice, structured collaboration, immediate feedback, and multiple ways to demonstrate understanding. The session concludes that blended learning is most effective in TESOL when digital tools extend teacher facilitation, strengthen communicative practice, and make differentiated English instruction more accessible for diverse learners.
Biography
Kevin Hung Tran is an award-winning educator from Texas and currently serves as an English Teacher Trainer in Viet Nam. His work focuses on communicative English teaching, multilingual learner support, differentiated instruction, educational technology, and inclusive classroom design. He has been teaching for over seven years, with professional experience across English as a Second Language, dual language education, special education, arts-integrated instruction, STEM learning, and secondary digital media. Kevin is a certified Technology Applications teacher and English as a Second Language teacher in Texas, with additional certification in Special Education, Core Subjects, and Science of Teaching Reading.
Kevin has served as an appointed teacher trainer for Apple Vanguard, a technology integration cohort focused on supporting peer-to-peer coaching, classroom innovation, and districtwide instructional technology implementation. His experience also includes using one-to-one student devices, Canvas-based learning management systems, Google Classroom, and blended learning models to support student pacing, accessibility, formative assessment, and language development. As both a technology and special education certified teacher, Kevin approaches blended learning as a form of differentiation that can expand access for English as a second language learners and students with disabilities. Beyond classroom teaching, he has consulted with environmental sustainability nonprofit organizations on curriculum development and artificial intelligence integration, supporting educational programming implemented throughout Central Texas. His professional interests include TESOL, blended learning, digital pedagogy, multilingual learner inclusion, curriculum design, educational technology, and teacher professional development.
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