ITAIS Newsletter - September 2020 (Plain Text Version)
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LETTER FROM NEW COMMUNITY EVENTS ORGANIZER Ekaterina Arshavskaya, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to have joined the steering committee team for the International Teaching Assistants Interest Section (ITAIS) in the new role of community events organizer. I previously served as a member-at-large, and I am glad to be able to continue with this wonderful group of professionals for the 2020–21 year in my new role. As the community events organizer, I am particularly interested in helping the group organize a series of webinars to improve our teaching of international teaching assistants (ITAs). In fact, the initial event I scheduled was our first prerecorded webinar (a panel of presenters), which took place in early August and was followed by a live Q&A session. The topic for this webinar was related to digital-age tools that can be useful and perhaps also user-friendly for ITA professionals to use during the pre-fall and fall semesters. You can review the archived Webinar to learn more. Our second webinar event is scheduled for November, with prerecorded presentations to be sent out on 1 November:
In my role, I am also looking forward to making more connections with regional TESOL affiliates as well as with other TESOL interest sections. I hope that my engagement with the TESOL Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest Section and Intermountain TESOL can be helpful in further promoting these collegial relationships. All in all, I am grateful to be able to contribute to the ITAIS and collaborate with our leadership and members, and I am happy to learn new ideas and insights through this group. Feel free to reach out in case I can be helpful to facilitate any events that can be particularly relevant at this time. Ekaterina (Katya) Arshavskaya |
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