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Our Mission Statement
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| TESL Kingston serves the needs of ESL teachers, instructors and students primarily in Eastern Ontario, but also in such places as Thunder Bay, other provinces, and overseas, by providing support to professionals working with ESL learners of all ages and levels in public, private and community schools, colleges and universities, as well as in community programs designed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada for immigrants and refugees. Our affiliate is also interested and involved in issues relating to: |
• ESL literacy
• refugee concerns
• immigration and settlement
• English for academic purposes
• job training and accreditation
• LINC programs
• ESL in the public school system
• English language teaching overseas
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Our Goals :
- to organize and publicize at least three professional development opportunities a year which are consistent with currently understood principles of second language learning and teaching
- to provide a forum through the website for our members to share their best ideas, strategies and practices
- to keep our members informed of important issues and news through regular newsletters
- to advocate for ESL rights and needs as the Board deems appropriate, so our voices are added to important ESL issues
- to liaise with local settlement agencies and refugee organizations and with the Canadian Coalition for Immigrant Children and Youth (CCICY), in order to keep ourselves informed about the issues and challenges facing our students and to provide such assistance as the Board deems appropriate to support them
- to provide information through the website about all the ESL services and programs in our area as well as information about local immigrant settlement agencies such as Immigrant Services Kingston and Area (ISKA) and Quinte United Immigrant Services (QUIS)
- to provide informative articles on the website about new programs and resources available to our members and to immigrants and refugees
- to provide a forum through the website to encourage our students to share their talents, feelings and opinions with others
- to organize, support and publicize events intended to build bridges between our students and the general public
- to publicize, through the website and in local media, the various events we and our members sponsor
- to liaise with and, where possible, participate in TESL activities at provincial (TESL Ontario), national (TESL Canada), and international (TESOL) levels
Our
Executive Board is elected by members for two years. It consists
of Affiliate Director, President, Past President, President-Elect, Recording Secretary, Membership
Secretary,Treasurer, Programme Convenor, Webmaster, Public Relations Chair,
and Members-at-Large. The Executive meets five times each year
to establish policy, carry out business, ( which includes organizing professional development events), and advocate for ESL rights.
Our 2009-10 Board
President-------------------------Barbara Dick
Past President------------------Sherry Archer
President-Elect-----------------Michele Dean
Affiliate Representative-------Johanne Myles
Treasurer-------------------------Sharon Cathcart
Membership Secretary--------Margaret Meyer
Recording Secretary-----------Cheryl Robinson |
Webmaster-------------------------Susan Bain
Program Convenor---------------Michele Dean
Roving Reporter-------------------Peggy Deaton
Publicity Chair----------------------Jade Garrison
Member-at-Large-----------------Hang Nhan
Member-at-Large-----------------Gaitree Oogarah
Member-at-Large-----------------Xuemei Li
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When
you join TESL Kingston, you get three
memberships for the price of one. You automatically become a member
of TESL Ontario and TESL Canada
as well. Through membership, you have the opportunity to participate
in the direction of your profession, add your voice to important
ESL issues, expand your skills and gain professional
recognition.
Contact
us to learn more at info@teslkingston.org
or apply on-line at
TESL Ontario
Be
sure to list Kingston as your home affiliate.
For important information with regard to TESL certification
in Ontario, please visit TESL
Ontario
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TESL Kingston’s 25th Anniversary
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The celebration of TESL Kingston’s 25th anniversary
in 2004 was a lively evening with a gathering of many of the founding
members. One of these, Eleanor Rogers, a long-time director of
the Queen's School of English, addressed the meeting from her
own extensive experience in the field at national, provincial
and local levels.
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Entertainment was provided by representatives
from two of Kingston's cultural groups: Ian Bender, a championship
Irish step-dancer, and children and teenagers from the India-Canada
Association of Kingston, an organization which, by the way, is
also celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The whole evening
was a fitting and joyful example of the mutual support and friendship
that exists in a multicultural community such as ours. <
Updated August 22, 2009
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