Alexandria, VA (March 2007)�Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), introduces Planning and Teaching Creatively Within a Required Curriculum for Adult Learners, edited by Anne Burns and Helen de Silva Joyce. This volume in TESOL�s Language Curriculum Development Series presents the stories of teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators from all over the world who seek to understand adult learners� needs and respond to them in creative, realistic, and effective ways.

The contributors to this volume teach adult English language learners, and all have
negotiated changes to the curriculum they were required to teach. The changes occurred in very different teaching contexts around the world and interacted in various ways with local factors. Despite these differences, the teachers shared a common goal: to sustain a viable, effective curriculum that reflected their values, beliefs, and ideals. This goal led the teachers to challenge the systems in which they worked and to struggle with the changes they believed necessary. The chapters offer living accounts of English language curricula as they occur in real classrooms for adult learners.

CHAPTER 1: Challenging Requirements: How Teachers Navigate to Make Changes Within Required Curricula, Anne Burns and Helen de Silva Joyce.
CHAPTER 2: Sowing the Seeds: An Innovative Gardening Project, Valerie Bainbridge and Janine Oldfield.
CHAPTER 3: The Transition From School to University: Learning New Behavior and Skills, Janet M. D. Higgins.
CHAPTER 4: Maintaining the Learning: EFL Teacher Education in Vietnam, Martyn Brogan.
CHAPTER 5: Innovations in Curriculum Development: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Generations, Abigail Brown and Jennifer Wharton.
CHAPTER 6: Foreign Eyes on Thailand: An ESP Project for EFL Learners, John Knox.
CHAPTER 7: No Textbook? No Problem! Reading and Writing With a Nonfiction Bestseller, Sarah Dodson-Knight.
CHAPTER 8: When Writing Is Murder: Transforming a Composition Course With a Mystery Novel, Todd Heyden.
CHAPTER 9: The Motive, Means, Method, and Magic of Using the Arts in a Grammar-Based Adult ESL Program, Kristin Lems.
CHAPTER 10: Responding to Learners� Language Needs in an Oral EFL Class, John McAndrew.
CHAPTER 11: Not the Puppet Anymore: Infusing Critical Inquiry Into a Business Presentation Curriculum, Martin Momoda.
CHAPTER 12: Surviving a Crash Course in EAP Writing: A Cambodian Experience, Stephen H. Moore.
CHAPTER 13: Chifa: Freewriting Within a Required Curriculum for Adults, Spencer Salas and Kyra Garson.