Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Highlights:
First Annual Conference 2
Board Elections in November 3 ELS Grand Reopening 4 Members Forum 5 4 Quarter Open Meeting 6
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Board Members Jeff McDevitt and Yvonne Johnson with Certificate of Affiliation
Jeanette Al Sabah has been a member of the educational community in Kuwait for 18 years. She began her career in Early Childhood Education as a preschool teacher then went on to teach at the Elementary School level as well as providing ESL support classes in the
evening. She earned her B.A. in Elementary Education at Atlantic Union College (South Lancaster, MA). She also has a M.S. in Management and Administration of Educational Programs from
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Help steer the future of TESOL Kuwait! Run for an Executive Board position this fall!
academic year. The newly-elected board will decide the dates and times of meetings that best meet their schedules.
For information regarding roles and responsibilities, please see our Constitution and Bylaws located on the website (www.tesolkuwait.org)
In addition, we will need to form a Nominating Committee. If you are willing to serve on this committee, please notify Mohammed Etadali. The Executive Board of TESOL Kuwait meets on a monthly basis throughout the
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Back row (left to right): Magda Rogala (ELS teacher), Melissa Wood (Academic Director), Mark Harris (President & CEO of ELS Language Centers), Margaret Combs, and Jeffrey McDevitt. Front Row (left to right): Yvonne Johnson, and Anne Tyoan (ELS teacher)
A nation's growth and development is contingent on a highly educated and motivated workforce.
If you have a suggestion for someone to include in our next member spotlight, please contact the newsletter editors:
Rasha Fahim and Jeff McDevitt newslettereditor@tesolkuwait.com
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Members Forum
TESOL Kuwait seeks to be driven by its members. We want the newsletter to become an extension of this. Therefore, we invite you to submit items for future newsletter content. The Members Forum is a place for current members of TESOL Kuwait to ask and answer questions, provide commentary, essays, poetry and helpful stories concerning anything related to teaching. We hope to get submissions related to assessment, classroom management, teaching in the Gulf, and learning strategies and resources, but we are open to what members can provide. The newsletter is published quarterly with issues in January, April, July, and October Please limit longer submissions to 500 words. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the newsletter staff. Rasha Fahim: Editor
newslettereditor@tesolkuwait.com
Corrections need to be part of the students grades, but the way we look at is that they are in the learning process. They are learning how to revise so we give them specific assignments with error corrections: 1. with some standard texts; 2. with authentic student writing as peer evaluators, which is more difficult. The initial focus should be on good content before going into revision and corrections. The most important thing, though, is that teachers must be consistent with their correction and revision techniques. You need to teach the students how to revise before they get into their own writing. If you value it as an Instructor and a department, then the students will do it. -Sandy Stein (Reading/Writing Coordinator, AUK) A Rubric should be created with corrections a percentage of the grade. However, corrections should not be a significant part of the grade. The main focus of the rubric should be on content development. Content should definitely be the main focus when instructing English Language Learners. -Debra M. Hoffer (Oral Communications Coordinator, AUK) Corrections should affect students positively. Even if I dont have a positive comment I need to give something positive before I give them the negative comment. Writing is a process so the whole process should be taken into account when grading not just the mistakes. The emphasis should be put on the final product. Maaly K. Jarrah (Oral Communications Instructor, AUK)
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RSVP:
Please RSVP for this open meeting by May 2, 2013 via email: president@tesolkuwait.com
Herman Daniels Don Prades Camille Bondi Susie Lennox Sosil Simokian Bassem Al Kassem Jon Pils
Australian College of Kuwait American University of Kuwait Australian College of Kuwait Gulf University for Science and Technology Box Hill College-Kuwait
TESOL Kuwait
Contact Your Board Members:
President: Yvonne Johnson president@tesolkuwait.com Membership: Camille Bondi membership@tesolkuwait.com Newsletter: Editor: Rasha Fahim newslettereditor@tesolkuwait.com Assistant Editor: Jeffrey McDevitt co-editor@tesolkuwait.com Interest Sections Co-Chairs: Susan Hamade co-interestsection1@tesolkuwait.com Ilene Winokour co-interestsection2@tesolkuwait.com Advocacy: Margaret Combs advocacy@tesolkuwait.com Members-At-Large: Mohammad Etadali membersatlarge@tesolkuwait.com Historian: Ibtissam Othman historian@tesolkuwait.com Scholarship: Lisa Waite-Trago scholarship@tesolkuwait.com Treasurer: Claire Hamilton treasure@tesolkuwait.com Advertising: Reena Mathew advertising@tesolkuwait.com