36th Annual Convention and Exhibit

Friday and Saturday, November 20-21, 2009

Winds of Change:
Teaching for Tomorrow
 (Click here for Preliminary Program)
 

The 36th Annual Convention and Exhibit of Puerto Rico Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (PRTESOL) will be held at the elegant Ponce Hilton in Ponce, Puerto Rico. There will be presenters from New York, Washington DC, Alabama, Florida, Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, Japan, Korea, Qatar and Puerto Rico. Registration and hotel accommodations information is now available. This year’s convention promises to be a huge event packed full with presentations, speeches, workshops, exhibits, networking, good food and entertainment.

The convention will begin on Friday, November 20, and end on Saturday, November 21. All PRTESOL members and non members must register for the convention to participate in or attend meetings, visit the exhibit hall, or reserve hotel rooms at special PRTESOL rate.

 

List of Convention forms:

Registration Form

Hotel Registration Form

 

PRTESOL CONVENTION
P. O. BOX 366828
SAN JUAN, PR  00936-6828

 


Call for presentation has closed as of June 29.
For questions related to presentations,
please contact vice-president,
Gladys Perez at gperez16@gmail.com.


Call for presentation has closed as of June 29.
For questions related to presentations,
please contact vice-president,
Gladys Perez at gperez16@gmail.com.


Exhibitors confirmed:

CESE, Scholastic, Pearson Digital, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson, Sadlier Oxford, Third Wave Learning, Camera Mundi, McGraw-Hill, First Caribbean Educational Group, Cambrige, Cengage, Santillana, VERNET, Benchmark Education,

Editorial UPR, Scientific Learning, Porta Caribe, Turismo Ponce, Braxton, Franklin Electronic, ETS, Masajes Terapéuticos, Oxford University Press, Teacher Created Materials, Auralog, Alta Books, College Board, and UNE

Exhibitor space has closed as of July 31, 2009.

For inquiry please contact:
 Naomi Vega at nvega2008@gmail.com and/or
Inocencia Nieves at inonieves_prtesol@yahoo.com.

 

 

  
 

Miguel Camacho
PRTESOL President
 

Message from the President:

The Winds of Change

I am delighted and honored to serve as the 2009 President. Our 2009 convention theme is: Winds of Change: Teaching for Tomorrow. As we are all anticipating change on a national, economical and educational level, we are excited about the changes that our organization is experiencing at this very moment. One of these changes is having the support of Dr. Juan Rodríguez, the Undersecretary, and Dr. Evelyn Veguillas, the English Program Director, both of the Puerto Rico Department of Education.

The only thing constant about the future is that it will continue to change. If there is one thing that we cannot and should not do, it is to stay the same. We are moving towards a competitive, complex, and diverse world. In the "Winds of Change," we cannot always direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails and make changes in our course.

How to improve and assess teaching performance is an issue of great importance to all educators. The 21st century will demand a new kind of teaching and learning. We must choose the right road and move forward. We must take some bold new steps to make fundamental changes in our teaching to guarantee the academic achievement of our students.

I encourage you to join our voyage, full of winds of change, to teach for tomorrow.
 

Miguel Camacho
PRTESOL President

 

 

  
 
 

Keynote Speakers

 



Dr. Deborah J. Short

Deborah J. Short, Ph. D., directs Academic Language Research & Training, a professional consulting company, and works with schools, districts, and states, providing professional development on sheltered instruction and academic literacy to teachers around the U.S. and abroad. She is also a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Linguistics where she co-developed the SIOP Model and has directed research on English language learners for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others. She is currently studying newcomer programs and the SIOP Model in middle school science classrooms. She chaired an expert panel on adolescent ELL literacy and co-authored the policy report, Double the Work. Publications include research articles in professional journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Educational Research, Educational Leadership, Education and Urban Society and Journal of Research in Education; books on the SIOP Model; and four ESL series for K-12 students. Previously, she taught ESL and EFL in New York, California, Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  
 
Sponsored by
CESE, INC.
National Geographic & Hampton Brown School Publishers

 

 

  
 

 



Esmeralda Santiago
Sponsored by Scholastic

Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City’s Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship. She graduated magna cum laude in 1976. In 1977, she and her husband, Frank Cantor, founded CANTOMEDIA, a film and media production company, which has won numerous awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking.

Ms. Santiago has earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and Honorary Doctor of Letters from Trinity University, from Pace University, from Metropolitan College and from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez. The mother of two adult children, she lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, filmmaker Frank Cantor. She’s currently at work on a novel, Conquistadora.

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