Conference
"Research and Teaching: A Collaborative Process"
Sheraton Centre Toronto
With a new school year upon us, I'm sure many of you are already anticipating this year's TESL Ontario conference and the many professional development opportunities it will provide. Your conference committee has worked diligently to bring you three full days of research symposia, plenary speakers, workshops, presentations, the technology fair, our panel presentation and of course the very popular Friday night dinner and entertainment.
Our plenary speakers include Bonny Norton who will speak on "Identity and Digital Literacy Across Time and Space", Ron Carter who will probe "What is Fluency? From Corpus to Classroom", and Dr. Ken Beatty discussing "Breaking Barriers to CALL in the Classroom". Each of our plenary speakers will also share their expertise at one of the three research symposia and will elaborate further on the connection between research and teaching.
Also, the topic of the 5th annual Panel Discussion which will be held between 9:30 am – 11:45 am on Friday October 29th, 2010 is "The Future is Now: The New Era of ESL Delivery."
We are pleased to be presenting our first ever poster sessions this year where you will have time to browse static displays of recent work in the field of ESL and have face to face discussions with the presenters
As always, there will be opportunities for you to volunteer your services on the 3 days prior to the conference and throughout each day of the conference. There are opportunities to assemble registration kits prior to the conference and help is always needed at the registration desk. Please be sure to indicate you interest in volunteering on your registration form.
The electronic brochure will be posted on this website on September 1st, with registration open from September 29th to October 19th; be sure to register early! The Sheraton has again extended the conference room rates to delegates 3 days prior to and after the conference, so why not take advantage of an extra day or 2 in the city?
Barb Krukowski
Conference Chair
See the TESL Ontario 2009 Conference pictures at http://teslon.org/galleries09.html
Photography © 2009 by Wolf Kutnahorsky www.wolfphotos.ca
Future conference:October 27 - 29, 2011Sheraton Centre Toronto