TIMELINE
1.
Participants REGISTER for
the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006
Sessions during the 2-week period:
- Monday, January 1 -
- Sunday January 15, 2006
2. EVO
2005 SESSIONS run for 6 weeks:
- Sunday, January 16 - Sunday, February
26, 2006
3. TESOL Convention 2006, Tampa Bay, FL, runs Wednesday, March 15
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Saturday, March 18, 2006. There will be meetings with and
demonstrations by EVO session
leaders and
participants. An Internet Fair session
will be held at the
CALL IS Electronic
Village, TBA.
Several events in
the
convention's Electronic Village will be synchronously Webcast by WorldBridges (Skype: worldbridges)
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CONTACT THE
ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE COORDINATION TEAM
In your mailer, be sure to remove the spaces in the address.
For
queries about specific
EVO sessions, please contact the moderator of the session
directly.
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Elizabeth
Hanson-Smith, Computers
for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento,
CA, USA
<ehansonsmi@yahoo.com>
Dafne
González, Universidad
Simón
Bolivar,
Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza @ yahoo.com>
Chris
Jones, Arizona Western College, Yuma,
AZ, USA
<edtec2002 @ yahoo.com>
Aiden
Yeh, Wenzao
Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<aidenyeh @ yahoo.com>
Buthaina
al-Othman, Kuwait University,
Kuwait City
<buthaina_3 @ yahoo.com>
Maryanne
Burgos,
Maryland, USA
<maryanneburgos @
yahoo.com>
Susan
Marandi, Al-Zahra University, Teheran, Iran
<susanmarandi @
yahoo.com>
Nicolas
Gromik, Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
<gromik_tohoku @
yahoo.com.au>
Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
<vstevens @
emirates.net.ae>
Christine
Bauer-Ramazani, St. Michael's College,
Colchester, VT, USA
<cbauer-ramazani @
smcvt.edu>
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To find
out more about TESOL's Online Teaching Certificate Program (the
foundation course begins January 16), go to TESOL and click on >PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT and then >ONLINE EDUCATION, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org.
(EVO is not a part of
the OTCP.)
The CALL
Interest Section of the
international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to
participate in the Electronic
Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual
extension of the TESOL 2006 Convention in Tampa Bay, FL. The
intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2006
participants and those who can participate only virtually.
You
do not
need to be a TESOL member to participate in sessions of the
Electronic Village
Online.
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Copyright
© EVO Coordination
Team
11/28/2005
E Hanson-Smith & A Yeh
Some
graphics copyright free from buttongenerator.com
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----> Sign up at this
session site directly after
January 1st.
Registration closes January 15.
Sessions run from January
16 to February 26.
We strongly recommend
that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
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TESOL
Mentoring
How do teachers serve as
mentors? Mentors, aspiring
mentors and other TESOLers will explore and share stories,
strategies, models, and ideas.
This six-week
discussion session will look at descriptions of mentoring, the purposes
of mentoring, and particular instances of successful and unsuccessful
mentoring. Once we have gotten to know our partners in this
venture, we will begin to share personal stories or comments on the
mentoring enterprise. We will identify some typical situations
and look at their characteristics in order to find patterns of behavior
and lessons we can learn from them.
We will discuss issues such as the roles and status of mentors or
mentees who are not native-speakers of English. It is envisaged that we
will be conducting action research while engaging in the discussions,
our major goal being to develop a basis for setting up a TESOL mentors'
support and interest group.
Target
Audience
Mentor-teachers or experienced ESOL teachers who are considering
becoming mentors
Weekly Content
- Week I – Introduction
Personal and professional introductions.
Opening discussion on what mentoring for TESOLers is all about through
polls and personal stories.
- Week II – Models and
approaches to mentoring
We will explore mentoring models and
approaches, and examine case studies for discussion. We will
begin to share our stories about mentoring. We will explore
mentoring Websites and suggest our own Websites and sources.
- Week III - Our stories
This week volunteers will tell stories
from their own mentoring experience. We will select cases which we can
explore in order to collect our own characterizations of
different "ways of mentoring."
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- Week IV - Models
of Action Research
We will explore the possibilities of an
action research model for mentoring in TESOL. What is action
research? How can it be adapted for our purposes?
- Week V - Developing our own action research
plans
We will participate in an online discussion session as some of us
develop action research plans to share with the group. We will
begin to exchange ideas and more suggested links for a permanent
mentoring website.
- Week VI - Conclusion
We will share action research plans and discuss the conclusions we have
reached from our mutual collaboration. We will establish a
voluntary mentoring online “community.” Session evaluation.
Communication
Media to be used:
TESOL Mentoring
Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TESOLMentoring
Tapped In for text
chat - http://tappedin.org/
About
the Moderators:
- Valerie
S. Jakar is a sociolinguist and teacher educator at the David
Yellin College in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the academic coordinator of
the programs of
in-service education for English teachers in the Jerusalem area.
Laura Stoutenburg coordinates a TESL Certificate programme at
Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. She also
teaches and does curriculum development for EAP and Workplace English
programs in Ontario, Canada.
To
join this session:
Go to the TESOL
Mentoring Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TESOLMentoring
and click on the
blue button: 
To
read about other EVO sessions: 
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