By Marion Chang and Stephen Cheng At the SOCEM Gathering in October 2010, Stephen Cheng talked about life stresses among immigrants. Here let’s consider two questions at bit more: First, what roles should teachers take when our students need mental health support? Second, what resources are available to us when our students need expertise that […]
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THIS COMING WEEKEND (JULY 6-8) Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition – July 6-8, Nathan Phillip Square http://www.torontooutdoorart.org/index.aspx Free fishing weekend – July 6-8, no licence required http://www.familyfishingweekend.com/Welcome.cfm MUSEUMS Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) – free admission one and a half hours before closing each night (excluding special exhibitions); half priced admission for Friday nights (4:30-9:30 p.m.) (all […]
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Spring Outing Suggestions
Spring has Sprung! It’s nice to see that temperatures are warming up and that the cold winter months have come to an end! Now it’s the perfect time to celebrate new life with our ESL students. The Toronto ESL Co-op has put together some valuable spring/summer trip suggestions for you. Did you ever consider taking […]
During a trip to Stratford, while were strolling downtown, we came across a company of three: a Canadian woman, a Chinese woman and her son in his early teens. They had come together in a car and obviously the Canadian woman was showing her Chinese friends around this cultured town. The Canadian woman was explaining […]
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Passion Play Outing?
Hi ESL Associates, Have you ever considered taking your students to the Toronto Passion Play? http://www.torontopassionplay.com/performances.htm Just an idea. God bless. -C.Y.
The KW regional gathering started with two of us who shared the task of phoning area churches and ministries to enquire if they had anyone interested in ESL ministry whom we could use as a contact person by email. We sent an email to introduce ourselves (using BCC for privacy) to all of our collected […]
A note from Darcy MacCallum who presented this matter to us at Gathering III: Great News: Bill 124, the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, has passed! Thank you for your help in promoting this significant piece of legislation. It is an important (and landmark) step toward facilitating the smooth entry of newcomers into the […]
Season’s Greetings! We’ve received some wonderful ESL Christmas ideas. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED!! Make sure you read over all the great ideas to see how various churches are celebrating with their ESL learners. We are still in need of more ideas so hurry to send them in. We want to share even […]
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Czeching-in
At Gathering III we had prayed for two of the participants, Len and Russ, who were going to be involved in an evangelistic English Weekend in the Czech Republic. Below is a brief report of that event: Thank you for your prayers regarding the evangelistic english family weekend November 16-19,2006. There were 180 people altogether […]
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