1. ELT Professionals Cooperating Around the Globe
Sandra J. Briggs
TESOL President

2. I. Introduction
Sandy Briggs
You, the participants

3. II. What Makes an
ELT Professional?

4. The Individual Teacher
It is you or me or the teacher sitting next to you.

5. B. Initial Training
This can be a teacher in your school explaining what you will do to obtaining a university degree.

6. C. Teaching Experience
We hope that the initial training comes before the teaching experience, but sometimes it is the other way around.

7. D. Professional Development
This is everything that you do after you start teaching to continue to grow and develop as an ELT professional.

8. Professional Development
Graduate degrees
Workshops
Professional associations
Using the Internet
Working with the teachers in your school

9. So when do you become an ELT professional?

10. III. What Advantages Do Nonnative ELT Teachers Have?

11. IV. What Do ELT Professionals Do to Be Professional?
Keep a teaching journal
Talk and plan with other teachers
Join a professional association
Read professional material
Attend professional meetings

12. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.
V. An Example:
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.

13. Position Statement on the Status and Rights of Teachers
March 2007
Teachers play an essential role in educational advancement, and teaching should be regarded and respected as a profession.

14. It is a form of public service which requires expert knowledge and specialized skills, acquired and maintained through rigorous and continuing study.

15. Moreover, it calls for a sense of personal and collective responsibility on the part of teachers for the education and welfare of the pupils in their charge.

16. Position Statement Against Discrimination of Nonnative Speakers of English in the Field of TESOL
March 2006

17. For decades there has been a long-standing fallacy in the field of English language teaching that native English speakers are the preferred teachers because they are perceived to speak “unaccented” English. . .

18. The distinction between native and nonnative speakers of English presents an oversimplified, either/or classification system that does not actually describe the range of possibilities in a world where English has become a global language.

19. Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Section in TESOL
Electronic Village:

20. VI. Using the Internet to Cooperate Around the World

21. VII. Conclusion

22. Sandy Briggs