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Caucus Leaders 2006-2007 |
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Chair
Michelle
Maitland
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Michelle Maitland has a double BA in Spanish and Psychology from Andrews University and a Masters in
TESOL from Central Connecticut State
University. She has lived, taught, and studied in Spain and Korea
building her experience in ESL, EFL, and Spanish instruction and her
intercultural savvy. Upon returning to the US, she worked as an ESL
instructor at University of Bridgeport's English Language Institute.
Michelle has had a few significant leadership positions so far - as TESOL
Society President while at grad school, as the editor of the IBPFT
Newsletter 2002-2004, and currently as the
Ruth Crymes TESOL Academy Fellowship Awards Coordinator. She has
received the CCSU Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Award and
the
TESOL Leadership Mentoring Award. Some of Michelle's articles can be
found in the ELI News (University of Bridgeport) and the
IBPFT
Newsletter. She presented in the TESOL 2003 IBPFT Caucus Colloquium
in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Chair-elect
Dr. Gertrude Tinker Sachs
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Secretary
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Bruno
Yomoah
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Bruno Yomoah had a varied career as an English language and literature
teacher in secondary and tertiary schools in Ghana, Nigeria, and Turkey
before becoming the ESL director in a private school in Maine in 1994.
Since then, he has worn many hats as an ESL team chair, college writing
instructor, multicultural education student coordinator, ESL consultant,
and ELL assessment consultant. An advocate not only for ELLs but also for
non-native English speaking teachers (NNESTs), Bruno believes minority professionals are uniquely qualified to
represent and support second language learners, and seeks to serve the
caucus in its efforts to give voice to the marginalized learners and
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Editor
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James Kennedy
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James Kennedy has been a
member of TESOL for 20 years, has given presentations at recent TESOL
conventions, and is currently editor of IBPFT's newsletter. He holds a
B.A. and M.A. in Romance Languages from
Howard University and a graduate certificate in TESOL from American University.
James' English language teaching career began in Brazil, where he was
director of the Education Department of Association Alumni (the
USIS Binational Center) in the city of Sao Paulo, and also taught
teacher-training courses at the Oswaldo Cruz College. In Washington, DC,
James has been teaching ESL in the city's public school system for 18
years, and has taught Portuguese and Spanish language courses at local
universities as well. In addition to a textbook called
Celebrate With
Us: A Beginning ESL Reader of Holidays and Festivals (McGraw-Hill),
James has written an intermediate Spanish reader,
Relatos
latinoamericanos (Glencoe/ McGraw-Hill). |
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Co-Editor
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Listserv Manager
CaRita Forte
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CaRita Forte considers herself a newcomer to the ELT arena. She is doing
graduate work towards a Master's degree, and her studies focus on the issues
English language learners (ELLs) face and analogies that arise to those
confronting African American children in suburban schools. A high school
teacher working with ELLs, she collaborates with other professionals to
train mainstream teachers to work more effectively with Spanish-speaking
students in her community. She sees similarities between society's
perceptions of African American and Hispanic learners as well, and in the
resulting approach to educating these students. |
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Web Manager
Gyl Mattioli
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Gyl
Mattioli is by no means a professional web developer, but has an innate
attraction to web publishing and graphics. For this reason, she put her name
forward and was fortunate enough to be given this opportunity to serve the
caucus and the ELT profession at large. After falling into English teaching quite
by accident while living in Rome with her Italian husband, Gyl worked
for Berlitz Language Centers
in Rome for several years before deciding to make a career out of
it. In 1997, she completed
International House's CELTA course,
and then began freelancing for other language schools in the area (while
keeping her job at Berlitz and continuing her bilingual archival work on Giorgio
Bassani for Dr. Portia
Prebys at Saint
Mary's College's Rome Program). Dissatisfied with the possibilities open
to a certificate holder, Gyl opted for a return to the States in 1999 and
began searching for ways to obtain higher degrees. In 2002, she graduated
from Georgia State University's (GSU)
Applied Linguistics/ ESL program with hopes of finding her dream job.
When that job did not materialize, Gyl applied for and received a fellowship
to Madagascar with the ELF program and
spent 10 months battling vicious mosquitoes, lost zebus, and errant chameleons in
order to teach ESP to university students in
Diego Suarez. She is now back in Atlanta teaching EAP at Georgia Perimeter College, coordinating
the Critical Languages Program,
popping off to India now and then, and studying for a doctoral
degree in GSU's Rhetoric and
Composition program.
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