International TESOL's (HEIS) is now seeking Officers

International TESOL's Higher Education Interest Section (HEIS) is now seeking officers for the following positions:

• Chair-elect (3-year appointment: in-training, chair, outgoing)
• Assistant Chair (1-year)
• Steering Board Member-at-large (3-year appointment)
• Web content manager (1 year)
• E-list/E-group manager (1 year)

To be considered for the HEIS board, applicants must be TESOL members at the time of election/ appointment and must be members of the HEIS interest section. Interested professionals should contact me directly as soon as possible for nomination or more information.

Membership on TESOL's leadership committees has the following benefits:

- increases possibilities of funding to attend the annual conference,

- provides access to unique leadership & professional development events at the annual conference,

- provides access to other leadership functions & banquets at the annual conference, and

- satisfies "professional activities/ service" categories on CVs and promotion dossiers.

Example agendas for TESOL 2010 includes HEIS issues such as:

• Content-based instruction: integration into traditional ESL/ESOL/EFL curricula; integrated-skills; purposeful curriculum; input grammar and vocabulary development

• Alternative approaches to ESL/EFL teacher-training: situated practice; teacher intuition; exploratory practice; language across the curriculum (linkages to content courses); immigrant recruitment; in-service professional development; alternative licensure; retraining career-changers & retirees

• Bridging & pathway development between secondary ed, community college, and 4-year college

• Immigrant access to higher ed and teacher training

Please join us at the International TESOL Convention in Boston, USA Spring 2010.

Please email for HEIS job descriptions:
Shawn Ford
sford@hawaii.edu
Instructor, ESOL and TESL Programs
Kapi‘olani Community College

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