About Maryland tesol

Maryland TESOL has the following values and principles:

●   Education: As a vehicle of empowerment

●  Diversity: Appreciation of cultural and linguistic diversity

●  Quality: Teacher development/support/best practices/knowledge/integrity

●  Collaboration: Professional networking, advocacy, communication (across the state), global connectedness, inclusive environment/community

Our goals

• Serve the Professional Community
• Network
• Share knowledge and expertise
• Disseminate information
• Provide professional learning opportunities
• Keep Maryland educators abreast of advances in the field
• Recognize educators’ involvement and professional contributions
• Promote scholarship
• Advocate
• Advocate for ELs, professionals and the field
• Support/Inform policy and practice to increase equity in educational opportunities
• Promote the Language Development of ELs in Maryland
• Support best practices
• Strengthen instruction and research at all levels of English to speakers of other languages
• Provide leadership in TESOL and in professional concerns
• Cooperate in appropriate ways with other groups having similar concerns

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