Mark Friday December 9th on your calendars for the TESL Windsor Christmas party.
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Zingara Fine Trattoria 769 Erie Street East
​Please RSVP here.

 Our very own TESL Windsor member Kelly Morrissey is one of this year's Sparks of Excellence award winners.  Congratulations Kelly!  See the details and the write up on the TESL Ontario website.

Open the PDF file attached for more information.  All ESL students and teachers are welcome to attend.

TESL Windsor proudly presents our 2016 Fall Workshop "Connecting Communities through Technology: Bring your Phone." 

Join us Saturday, November 19th from 9:00 am to noon at Dom Polski 1275 Langlois Ave. Completion of this workshop will grant you a certificate for 3  professional development hours.

This workshop will feature a special presentation by W5's NAP Drumming Circle, a relaxing intermission of chair yoga with Ritu, and a light lunch to wrap up. 

Please take a moment to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. 

Mayor Drew Dilkens has proclaimed November 20-26th  ESL Week in the City of Windsor.  Click on the file above to see the official proclamation.  Share with your students.

Call for Ideas

How can we promote ESL week in our community? TESL Windsor-Essex is actively seeking creative ideas for ESL week.

ESL week will be the held the week of November 18-27th. It is a national event.  In the past, we have had the City of Windsor make a proclamation of ESL week. We will continue to do this; however, this year we want to ramp things up.

Our goals are:

• to improve visibility of TESL Windsor and the work that we do
• to engage the media (i.e. radio, TV, news, social media)
• to showcase the talent in our affiliate
• to improve visibility and enhance positive recognition of ESL teachers in Windsor-Essex
• to create understanding of the importance of our work in our community
• to create compassion and understanding of our learners and their cultures
• to showcase the learning that happens in our classrooms

Please share any creative idea that you might have of how we might achieve these goals.  Our plan is to hold our Fall 2016 Workshop at the beginning of ESL week and it could be the place for the event/idea to happen or could be the culminating day of a series of events held next fall.  We are open to all suggestions and ideas.
Please submit ideas to windsortesl@gmail.com or comment on our website by August 24th, 2016.

Call for Presenters

Do you have a presentation idea that you would like to share with your TESL Windsor-Essex colleagues?  We are currently looking for presenter proposals from within our very talented teaching group for our Fall 2016 PD Workshop event.

TESL Windsor would like to provide our very talented ESL teachers the opportunity to present and share their wisdom.

We are actively searching for presenters who can bring forward innovative ideas or the "tried and true".  This workshop will focus on practical information and useful tools that attendees can take away with them to enhance their teaching practice or improve value to the organizations that they serve.

You might consider co-presenting if you are not comfortable on your own.

Benefits to being a TESL Windsor PD Presenter:

1. Experience of presenting - stepping stone to TESL Ontario??
2. Looks great on a resume
3. PD Hours
4. Sharing knowledge, tools and resources with colleagues
5. Recognition and accolades from your colleagues

If you are interested, please submit your presentation ideas to windsortesl@gmail.com by Wednesday August 24th, 2016.