INTESOL 2005  Annual  Conference

"INSPIRING CHANGE"

  Friday, October 21, 2005

The Fountains Conference Center, Carmel, IN

Keynote: Dr. Annela Teemant

Lessons from Collaboration: Following the Data of Change

INTESOL 2005 KEYNOTE INFORMATION

Title:
Lessons from Collaboration: Following the Data of Change

Dr. Annela Teemant has spent the last eight years designing, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of Brigham Young University’s ESL endorsement program for mainstream teachers. Working with over 100 university and public school colleagues, Dr. Teemant’s journey of advocacy required crossing the borders of academic disciplines, departments, and institutions. Experiencing first-hand the politics, pragmatics, and potential of change, she will share lessons from collaboration based on her research data and experience. These lessons suggest a path for other ESL professionals to pursue in advocating change for language minority students in the public school setting.

Biographical Sketch of Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Teemant received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1997) in Second/Foreign Language Education. She is the newly appointed managing director of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) and visiting associate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Her recent work at Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) focused on diversity teacher education and sociocultural pedagogy. She acted as project director of an eight-year initiative to develop a comprehensive ESL endorsement for public school teachers using a distance education model. A five-year federal grant for English Language Acquisition Professional Development supports implementation and evaluation of the program. Recent publications in such places as Teachers College Record, Teacher Education Quarterly, The Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, and TESOL’s Case Studies in TESOL Practice: Content-Based Language Instruction in K-12 Setting focus on this effort. Related web links include: www.crede.org and www.beede.byu.edu.