ITAIS Newsletter - December 2022 (Plain Text Version)
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LETTER FROM CHAIR ELECT Kayla Landers, Lehigh University, PA, USA
It is hard to believe that another semester has come and gone. As an interest section we continued to find many ways to connect: webinars, bi-weekly working group meetups, and messages through the listserv. (If you are new to the ITA-IS, please feel free to reach out to learn how you can connect with others and get signed up to be part of the listserv.) Although I am still working through the busyness of the end of semester testing, I am also happy to inform you that we have a phenomenal panel put together for the academic session for TESOL 2023 Convention in Portland, Oregon. The academic session titled “Why Examine ITA Programs through the Lens of Stakeholders” will take place on Wednesday, March 22 12:00-1:30 pm PST. Our panelists, Derina Samuel, Liz Tummons, Mo Burke, Emily Montgomery, and Elise Geither, will each share their own unique experiences and expertise on the topic. Mark your calendars. In the beginning of the new year, we will put together a spreadsheet of all of the ITA sessions that will take place at the TESOL convention, so keep an eye out for that as you begin to plan for the convention or if you need rationale for funding to attend. Finally, as we wrap up the year and begin a new one, I want to remind everyone to get more involved in the interest section and in TESOL. We will have elections coming up for our steering committee, so please make sure you vote! I am looking forward to the year ahead as your ITAIS chair, and I will do my best to represent our IS in the broader TESOL community. I’m honored to serve you all for the upcoming year. Please reach out with ideas, questions, and/or concerns (kml315@lehigh.edu). Looking forward to connecting and continuing the conversations.
Kayla Landers is a Language Specialist, ITA liaison, and Instructor at Lehigh University since June 2015. She received her master's in TESOL in 2009 and have been teaching undergraduate, graduate, and noncredit intensive English classes since then. She is interested in language assessment, technology in the classroom, and multimodal composition. She enjoyed planning webinars for the interest section last year, and hopes to find more ways to interact and connect throughout the year as well as share and promote more research and best practices within the field this year as chair-elect. |
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