PLENARY
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How to Get Your Foot in the Door
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10:30AM |
HUM 133 |
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TESOL professionals who are responsible for hiring teachers will explain what makes an effective candidate for a teaching job. We have professionals from community colleges, universities, workplace settings and EFL settings. We also have a presenter who can tell students how to tailor their experience for non-teaching jobs.
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Panelists
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Lisa Heyer |
ESL Program at San Francisco State University
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| Lisa Heyer is currently the Coordinator of the ESL Program
at San Francisco State University, as well as a member of the ESL
Faculty. Lisa received her MA/TESOL from SFSU in 1991, and has taught
in the ESL Program since that time. She has also taught at UC Berkeley,
UC Berkeley Extenstion, and The Department of Secondary Education
at SFSU. Her other professional activities include serving as consultant
for a company specializing in workplace English training, and as a
faculty consultant for Educational Testing Service.
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Linda Martinez
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Canada College
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| Linda Martinez received her Bachelor's Degree at UC
Berkeley in Spanish Language and Linguistics, with a minor degree
in Education, having studied abroad at the University of Costa Rica
for one semester. After graduating from UC Berkeley, she taught 3rd
grade for a few years in San Francisco Unified School district, before
deciding to pursue her MATESOL at SFSU In 1998. While at SFSU, she
taught for the American Language Institute, which was an experience
she greatly cherished. Upon graduation from the program, she was hired
by the English Institute at Canada College as an ESL Instructor/Coordinator
to establish an off-campus ESL program called "CBET", Community-Based
English Tutoring" Program. The CBET program provides free ESL courses
at the local elementary schools to parents and adult community members
in Redwood City who pledge to tutor a child once their English is
proficient. Tuition, books, and childcare are all provided for free.
Linda recruits and hires the ESL instructors, instructional aides,
and childcare providers for the program and has many helpful insights
about how to get hired at a community college.
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| Liz Schuler | Program Manager at the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits | |
| Liz Schuler is Program Manager at the Center for Excellence
in Nonprofits (www.cen.org) where she is responsible for the day-to-day
program delivery, including for CEN's technology program, Wired for
Good. Prior to joining the CEN team, Liz was at Vesper Society where
she developed curriculum and provided training for nonprofit organizations
domestically and internationally on technology planning, Internet
skills, and online leadership. She has taught English Composition,
English as a Second Language, and computer and Internet skills in
community colleges and non-profit language schools throughout the
Bay Area. She also served in the Peace Corps as a high school English
teacher in Gabon, Central Africa. In addition to her nonprofit and
teaching experience, Liz worked as an Associate Producer at CNET's
Download.com. She holds a B.A. in English from Cal State Fullerton
and a M.A. in English with an emphasis in Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (TESOL) from San Francisco State University.
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| Sharon Seymour | City College of San Francisco | |
| Sharon Seymour is the ESL department chair at the City College of San Francisco (in her fifth year) and has taught both credit and noncredit there. She has been active in CATESOL and taken upon such roles as president and secretary. She also was a board member of TESOL. She graduated from the MATEFL program at SFSU. | ||
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