Affiliate News - 08/12/2019 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE TESOL PRESIDENT
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
•  KOREA TESOL MARCHES ONWARD
•  COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS AS POWERFUL RESOURCE TO STRENGTHEN NELTA
EUROPE
•  TWENTY-SIX GLORIOUS YEARS OF NATE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, INSPIRATION
•  TESOL-SPAIN GOES GREEN
•  ETAI: 40 YEARS OF SHARING IDEAS
•  REFLECTIONS FROM THE INGED-US EMBASSY, ANKARA PROJECT: "BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE: PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' VOICES"
NORTH AMERICA
•  BC TEAL'S 51ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
•  CAROLINA TESOL CELEBRATES ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY: REFLECTING ON THE PAST TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
•  NJTESOL/NJBE CELLebrates 50 YEARS!
•  NEW YORK TESOL CREATES NEW AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH PUERTO RICO AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TESOL ASSOCIATIONS
•  THE TIME CAPSULE
•  K-12 PARTNERSHIPS & TEXTESOLV: DEEPENING DIALOGUES ACROSS THE CHANGING NORTH TEXAS TESOL COMMUNITY
•  PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: WHY GET INVOLVED?
SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
•  RESULTS OF ARTESOL's FEDERAL STRATEGIC PLAN
•  FROM TESOL AFFILIATE MEMBER TO INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
•  MEXTESOL: GOALS, GROWTH, & TESOL
•  ACTION TESOL CARIBBEAN IS TESOL IN ACTION!
•  USING MULTI-MODAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WAY TO BOOST COMMUNICATION FOR TESOL COLOMBIA ASSOCIATION
•  TESOL HAITI: SEEKING MENTORS AND INTERESTED PARTNERS
ANPC UPDATES
•  TESOL AFFILIATE NETWORK PROFESSIONAL COUNCIL CALL FOR PAPERS
•  CALL FOR ANPC MEMBERS

TESOL HAITI: SEEKING MENTORS AND INTERESTED PARTNERS

Mackenzy Julemisse, TESOL Haiti, Haiti

Since TESOL Haiti was created, it’s educators have been forced to fight to teach themselves how to bridge their organization’s differences to align to the objectives of TESOL International and the other TESOL global associations in their work to make English the tool of this century in Haiti.

TESOL Haiti, wants TESOL International’s leaders to help them understand what needs to be learned and how to utilize what their educators have to respond to Haiti’s teacher and student’s needs adequately. Haiti implores TESOL leadership to assist the efforts in Haiti through to enable its learners and Teachers of English to speakers of other languages to use English as a means of communication and as a tool to explain the innovation in the third millennium.

Last year, TESOL Haiti hosted an event aimed to teach nurses and nursing students English. The effort was a success. Two hundred participants earned two things through the event – increased English skills and a certificate for participation. The best thing we can give to learners in Haiti is a certificate because they think that education is the only aim in life. Their daily trauma is the apartheid of education that is about to crumble their living every day. Imagine how we are colonized by the little group of oppressors erecting condescendingly less education as a prison to capture these people and their dreams.

Instruction is compulsory, but education is obligatory. Thus, the kind of education you're sharing through TESOL International is helpful; it has taught to me on how to be a leader for myself, a leader for my family and a leader for my community. Imagine that TESOL Haiti could become the type of Institution that TESOL International is teaching his members to become , the community of English in Haiti would be able to understand why they have to free themselves for a kind of leadership that can lead teachers and learners to accept to learn from each other.

To be frank, I would say that TESOL Haiti is imploring the leaders of TESOL International to help us to become an Institution which can be helpful to our community.