TESL Ontario Webinar

Are you a novice ESL teacher wondering how to break into the ESL teaching industry in Canada? Are you curious about how to build a career and professional identity that is authentic to you?

This webinar will address how to evaluate and then approach potential employers. It will also address specific actions than can be taken to assist new ESL instructors in forming strong and authentic professional identities.

By the end of the webinar, you will be equipped with knowledge on:

• evaluating and approaching potential employers,
• recognizing the factors that hinder and help the process of professional identity development, and
• learning about actions than can be taken by new ESL instructors to form strong and authentic professional identities.

WEBINAR TYPE

Career Development.

CATEGORIES

Employment / Self Employment, Identity.

PARTICIPANT LEVEL

All levels - No previous knowledge required.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Heather Donnelly (BA, BA, BEd, MEd) has been a faculty member at Fanshawe College since 2015. She has also taught EAP/ESL courses for Algonquin College, Lambton College, University of Winnipeg, University of Guelph, University of Windsor, and Lakehead University. Her 2015 Master of Education thesis, "Becoming an ESL Teacher: An Autoethnography" has been cited in several articles on teacher identity and is read by MEd. students registered in the course, "Linguistics for Classroom Teachers" at the University of Alabama.