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2019 Annual Report TESOL ANNUAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2018–OCTOBER 2019 2 Thank You to Our Global Partners 2019 GLOBAL PARTNERS EVENT PARTNERS 3 Message from the President 2019 has been an extraordinary year. As President-elect a year ago, I anticipated helping to fulfill TESOL’s vision of being the trusted global authority for knowledge and expertise in English language teaching. I planned to work with the Board, TESOL staff, sponsors, and our member communities of practice, professional councils, committees, and affiliate network to attain our strategic plan objectives. At the Atlanta conference, however, it became clear that TESOL had yet to put in the focused effort needed regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. While the vision and collaborators remained constant, my priorities shifted and refocused. Throughout our history, TESOL has made significant efforts to ensure geographic diversity among our leadership. Our current Board of Directors, for example, includes 11 members, who by birth, residency, or citizenship, claim eight different countries among them. Unfortunately, in other forms of diversity, we have not been as well represented and we know we need to do better. To that end, the Board formed a Diverse Voices Task Force to look at how TESOL can cultivate diverse leaders across the Association and embrace a culture of inclusion in all areas and at all levels. Kisha Bryan and Eric Dwyer are co-chairing the task force, and Abdulsamad Humaidan, Arlene Costello, Federico Salas-Isnardi, Mary Romney, Noreen Mirza, Phoenicia Grant, Sara Kangas, and Yasmine Romero are working with them, along with our staff partner, Rita Buckner, and our Board liaison, Past President Luciana de Oliveira. This task force will share preliminary results and recommendations in March 2020 and will continue its work through the end of 2020. We expect to start implementing changes to enable us to be the diverse and inclusive association that we strive to be. We all share the values of professionalism, respect, integrity, and lifelong learning. Our mission is to advance the expertise of professionals who teach English to speakers of other languages in multilingual contexts worldwide. These values and this mission demand that TESOL has the breadth and depth of perspective that comes from diversity and inclusion. As my term comes to an end, it is with the knowledge that we are a strong and resilient association that seeks to do better and comprises individuals coming together for the greater good. I look forward to what we will accomplish together. Deborah Healey 2019-20 TESOL President 4 Message from the Executive Director Launching our new strategic plan in 2019, we did not so much embrace new priorities but defined our work through the strategic outcomes we hoped to achieve for our members. With input from staff and volunteer leaders, our Board of Directors sought to expand TESOL’s global presence and connectivity, increase knowledge and expertise among TESOL educators, give voice to and advocate for English language teaching professionals, and advance our organizational sustainability. After one year, how have we done? We saw our membership increase by more than 12% and become more geographically diverse. In 2018, 77% of our members were in the United States. Today, 58% are from North America, with 18% from Asia and 8% from South America. We also brought TESOL knowledge and expertise to more than 12,500 educators worldwide through the TESOL International Convention, TESOL China Assembly, certificate programs, virtual seminars, and self- study courses. Our publications were equally as strong, as we released the second title in The 6 Principles® series, The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners: Adult Education and Workforce Development, aimed at teachers of adult English learners. Our professional journals continued to demonstrate TESOL’s leadership in research and practice. Both TESOL Journal and TESOL Quarterly continued to see an increase in the number of articles downloaded, and TESOL Quarterly’s impact factor rose to rank sixth among all linguistic journals. Our voice and advocacy efforts were equally successful. In June, we hosted our second largest TESOL Advocacy and Policy Summit, and our member advocates helped secure bipartisan and bicameral support in the U.S. Congress for the Reaching English Learners Act. We also launched our Advocacy Action Center, through which you, our members, sent more than 700 messages in just five months to members of the U.S. Congress in support of our priorities. These efforts were critical in helping to secure increased funding to support English learners. In 2020, we seek to expand our advocacy efforts globally. Finally, we know that none of these efforts will be sustainable if our Association is not financially sound. I am pleased to report that we achieved a slight budget surplus and increase in net assets in 2019. As we look back on 2019, we are also looking ahead to build on these achievements in 2020 with your help. Christopher Powers Executive Director 5 STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1Global Presence and Connectivity TESOL MEMBERS AREA OF WORK 11,855 5,781 148 122 Total New Countries Affiliates Members Members Represented NUMBER OF MEMBERS BY CATEGORY Retired Members n Adult Education ................................................................................ 6.7% Student n Applied Linguistics ........................................................................... 2.0% Members n Bilingual Education .......................................................................... 0.5% n ESL/EFL Instructor/Educator ......................................................... 13.5% n Post-Secondary Education ............................................................. 8.1% n Mainstream ............................................................................................ 0.5% Professional n Other ................................................................................................... 2.6% Members n Pre-K–12 ............................................................................................. 4.4% n Teacher Education ........................................................................... 7.4% 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 n Not Provided ...................................................................................... 54.3% 6 STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1Global Presence and Connectivity 2019 TESOL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION & ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXPO TESOL VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA Being a member of TESOL has allowed me to expand my network and bolster my leadership skills. Aymen Elsheikh, PhD, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar and President of Africa TESOL 5,352 110 1,000+ 100+ Attendees Countries Sessions Exhibitors TESOL AWARDS Represented In 2018-2019, the 2019 ATTENDEES BY COUNTRY TESOL Awards 21 Program gave over Countries $37,500 Represented 2019 TEACHER OF THE YEAR BERMUDA HONG KONG n 100+ n 51 – 100 L to R: National Geographic Learning Director of Global Marketing Ian Martin, TESOL Teacher of the Year Tünde Csepelyi, TESOL n 21 – 50 2018-2019 President Luciana C. de Oliveira, TESOL Executive n 11 – 20 Director Chris Powers n Up to 10 See all awardees at www.tesol.org/awards 7 STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2Knowledge and Expertise PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TESOL PRESS PARTNER PROGRAMS TOP SELLERS FOR NEW RELEASES 1,435 2,700 Blended 2019 Global English 11 5 Workshops Education China Participants Assembly registrants Virtual Seminars Certificate Programs 2,308 362 1,400 800 The 6 Principles®: The 6 Principles® New Ways in Adult Education Quick Guide for Teaching Speaking, Virtual Seminar Certificates The 6 Principles for TESOL-NELTA and Workforce Paraeducators: 2nd edition Registrants Issued Exemplary Teaching Regional Conference Development Pack of 25 of English Learners® and Symposium 2019, Blended program Nepal registrants LAUNCHED IN 2019 The 6 Principles for Exemplary TESOL ® 2 7 Teaching of English Learners : K-12 130 PRESS Training of Trainers Workshops Participants Online Courses Self-Study Courses PUBLISHED The 6 Principles for Exemplary 196 149 Instruction of English Learners®: K-12 92 Participants Online Course Self-Study Course Participants Registrants 12 Standards Workshops NEW Standards for Initial TESOL Pre-K–12 TITLES Teacher Preparation Programs (Juneau, AK) 102 Countries Represented Standards for Adult Education ESL Participants 99 Programs (Nashville, TN) 8 STRATEGIC PRIORITY 2Knowledge and Expertise TESOL JOURNAL TESOL QUARTERLY # of institutions Downloads Submissions # of institutions Downloads 2-Year Impact Factor increased to increased by increased by increased to increased by increased to 2.718 5-Year Impact Factor 6,911 19.3% 8.8% 7,108 9.4% increased to 3.208 TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLES TOP 5 MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLES 1 Reflecting on Reflective Practice: (Re)Visiting Dewey and Schon 1 The effect of content retelling on vocabulary uptake from a TED Talk Farrell, T. Nguyen, C. & Boers, F. 2 Scaffolding to make translanguaging a classroom norm 2 Enhancing EFL learners’ willingness to communicate with visualization Daniel, S. et al. and goal-setting activities Al-Murtadha, M. 3 Research methods in applied linguistics Dörnyei Z. & Griffee, D. 3 The Interaction of Motivation, Self-Regulatory Strategies, and Autonomous Learning Behavior in Different Learner Groups 4 Trauma in English learners: Examining the influence of previous Kormos, J. & Csizér, A. trauma and PTSD on English learners and within the classroom Schmidt, L. 4 Multimodality
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