Updates and New Content!

Well I have just finished my amazing two year program at USC's MA TESOL program...

I have learned so much these last two years, and I have to thank my wonderful instructors, including but not limited to Dr. Melanie Calvert, Dr. Candace Kelly-Hodge, Dr. Emmy Min, Dr. Todd Kolberg.  I was not able to walk with my classmates at the commencement exercises, but I was there in my heart and spirit with my fellow Trojans...love you guys!!

What is next?  Well, I am looking for a really academically committed and strong English program to become a teacher for here in Istanbul.  I want to be able to put much of what I learned in the MA TESOL program into practice.  I have studied Gardner, Jenkins, Richards, and Nunan, and really I just want to become the new and improved TESOL teacher that USC taught me to be.

I also have some great material to share on this blog with all TESOL teachers worldwide.  If we can engage in fellowship and help our peers, keep the conversations about English teaching to foreign students open, we can make a difference as influential, dynamic English teachers in foreign countries.  We are needed out here in the world!

In the next few days I plan to post some links to specific educational sources, some dynamic software that will help us teach better, and, maybe most importantly, I will be posting some video footage of interviews I conducted with my peer group here in Istanbul, in which I speak with seasoned veterans of English teaching here in Turkey.  I always want to have that connection with my peer group because it is so important that we TESOL teachers fellowship with each other and SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE that will enable us to be better, more engaging instructors!  So, please keep reading my blog and feel free to comment!