Katie Welch

Check out our TECs trainer, Katie Welch, in action doing a Higher Levels workshop at Meadow Ridge Baptist Church in Fort Worth yesterday!

Donate to support Literacy Connexus today! https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Literacy-Connexus

Looking forward to being with Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Region 5 again soon!

The TexTESOL V Regional Conference is almost here! Claim your spot by registering below!

Registration is $99 for early bird, $149 for regular registration, and $199 at the door
Breakfast and lunch are included

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/textesol-v-regional-conference-2025-tickets-1231431357339?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you’re looking for one final professional development opportunity before the holiday break, join me on December 19 as Literacy Texas presents “Best of Texas: Language Learning”.

I’ll share some data and information about ESL in Texas, and then we’ll hear from two community-based ESL programs who are doing great work in our state.

The event is FREE and online!

Register here: https://lnkd.in/gh8eRUjf

What a fantastic event by Literacy Texas! The UTA Department of Linguistics and TESOL was delighted to host this non-profit’s DFW regional symposium on Friday. Literacy Texas conferences are always first class! The new Executive Director Dr. Jenny Walker gave an inspiring keynote, and I especially enjoyed the opportunity to network with leaders from local community-based organizations.

I enjoyed presenting at the MiTESOL conference today on behalf of Cambridge University Press & Assessment! It was a beautiful fall day at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This was my first time visiting Michigan, and it is so charming. Loved being amongst such a dedicated group of TESOLers!

Enjoyed connecting with colleagues and friends at the DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference today! Dr. Peggy Semingson and I presented a poster about the many virtual/online options available for TESOL students to complete internship, practicum, and/or service learning requirements.

Register today! 🎉 Free professional development for DFW-area ESL programs. Very happy to be welcoming Literacy Texas to our campus!

UTA's Department of Linguistics and TESOL is hosting the Literacy Texas DFW Symposium on November 15. The symposium is free professional development for ESL and adult literacy teachers in community-based programs. It's in The Commons from 8:30a-3:15p. Lunch provided. Any of our students currently volunteering in ESL programs for service learning are welcome to attend! Here's the link to register:
https://www.literacytexas.org/calendar/2024-symposium-dfw/

Career update! 🎉 If you know anybody interested in getting a Master’s in TESOL, send them my way! We have a fully online program, so ESL teachers all over the country can learn with me.

http://ling.uta.edu

With the new year underway, we’re excited to announce more of our new faculty! It’s a pleasure to share that Dr. Katie Welch has joined us this fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in TESOL and the Interim Director of our English Language Institute program. Katie earned her PhD from UTA (2009 Ph.D. in Linguistics). She has extensive experience with TexTESOL, serving eight years on their board--as President, Treasurer, and State Conference Chair, and this year winning the 2024 TexTESOLer of the Year. She has international experience working with pre-service and in-service teachers through presentations at TESOL International, giving a keynote for Kuwait TESOL, and as a US Department of State English Language Specialist in Poland and in Türkiye. In addition, she has published articles on teaching language and linguistics in the journals Language and American Speech. Welcome back to UTA, Katie!

The invisible emotional labor of teaching can be so intense, make sure you set good boundaries to reduce the likelihood of burnout!

A sketchnote commissioned me to create for .

Dr Katie Welch shared some brilliant ways to promote teacher wellbeing.

How do you take care of yourself?

I'm terrible at taking breaks, but I have taken her advice on setting boundaries.

You can watch the whole session here:
https://bit.ly/3Lzio0N

Calling all graduate students!

📢 Graduate students, we want to see YOUR research at ! We're now accepting proposals for our 2025 Graduate Student Forum held at our convention in Long Beach, CA, USA, next March. Present your work to peers and professionals from around the globe!

Research proposals are due 4 October. Applications to become a proposal reviewer are due 27 September.

Learn more & apply: https://bit.ly/47nnF4Z