TESL Ontario

Dear TESL Ontario Members

Thank you for participating in our Membership survey. We heard from about 30% of you! We are now analyzing your response to improve our services to you.

Also, I want to thank those of you who voted to express their choice for this year’s ESL Week Poster. I hope that you will proudly display the poster in your workplace and your community.

Were you one of TESL Ontario's first members in the early 1970's? If so we'd love to hear from you!

If you would like to be a part of the celebration planned at our annual conference in November, please click on the link below and fill out the form so that we may contact you. We are hoping to put together a special presentation spanning 40 years of TESL Ontario history!

http://www.teslontario.net/content/firstmembers

TESL Ontario is looking for committed, enthusiastic members to serve on TESL Ontario’s Board of Directors. The TESL Ontario Board operates with a pure Policy Governance model. All positions are Members-at-Large. Elections are held in the fall and the new slate of directors is presented at the TESL Ontario Annual General Meeting. The offices of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer are all elected from within the Board of Directors after the AGM. New board members will be mentored by experienced board members to transition into the role. Read more...

Does your Ontario-based school have something to share? Are your facing a situation that others should be aware of? Have you recently come up with a new schedule that accommodates more students? Do you have an interesting connection to the community or a creative funding model? Let Contact readers know with a school/program profile.

Teachers of English as a Second Language Association of Ontario (TESL Ontario) is currently accepting proposals for the 40th Annual TESL Ontario Conference - TESL Ontario at 40: Thriving, Excelling, Sharing, Leading. TESL Ontario 2012 is to be held in Toronto on November 8-10, 2012 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.

Please click here for detailed submission guidelines, selection process information, and conference dates.

The deadline for proposals is May 31, 2012.

This year TESL Ontario had a poster designed to help promote ESL Week across Ontario.  TESL Ontario members were invited to vote on 3 poster concepts and we are excited to announce that the winning poster concept has been finalized and is now available for download.

For more information about ESL Week activities click here.

At the joint meeting of the TESL Ontario Board of Directors and the TESL Ontario Affiliate Representatives on January 21, 2012, the Affiliate Representatives were asked to report on developments, trends and concerns from their perspective. Of course, one common theme was the impact that the changes to the levels of funding to Citizenship and Immigration Canada funded programs had had around Ontario.

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the TESL Canada 2012 conference, October 11-13, 2012.  The conference will be held at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.

Many newcomers hope to one day become Canadian citizens. One of the great benefits of citizenship status is the absolute right to enter and remain in Canada. As a Canadian citizen, you cannot be forced to leave Canada, unless you said something that was not true or left out information when you applied for Canadian citizenship or permanent resident status. Permanent residents, however, can be deported for a variety of reasons no matter how long they have lived here.