Featured Speaker
KOTESOL 2018 National Conference
Director, Sookmyung Women’s University TESOL
“Global Leadership in TESOL and the Pathways”
Basically, this session will provide an opportunity for a reflection on the mindsets and universal competences required of current and potential TESOL leaders. What ideas are the most relevant, meaningful, and applicable to us in our role as leaders? What does it mean to become the educators and leaders in the ever changing TESOL field? How the idea of global leadership has evolved to help us to renew our commitment to the TESOL profession?
To begin with, I will introduce the Ecological leadership while relating a framework of the ecology of leadership in business to a conceptual ecology of TESOL leadership. It will help us as to envision TESOL’s future directions while considering the big picture. With those bigger frameworks in mind, we will also see how the ideas of global leadership have evolved. Since cross-cultural understanding is the backbone of global leadership, relevant cross-cultural leadership ideas will be presented to help us to enhance our capacities to lead in any teaching contexts. A few TESOL leadership pathways will be also presented to show the diversity of global leadership and the roles.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Kyungsook Yeum is the Director of SMU TESOL and the faculty of Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. She has served on the TESOL Board of Directors, TESOL International Association, USA, 2015-2018. Dr. Yeum has an MA in TESOL from the University of Maryland. Her first PhD is in English Literature, and she is a University of Macquarie PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Program Evaluation.
Dr. Yeum’s leadership skills and understanding of the TESOL profession have been honed through her work as Chair of Program Administration Interest Session at TESOL International Association, National President of Korea TESOL, as Vice President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK), and also as Conference Chair for the KOTESOL-hosted Pan-Asia Conference. Dr. Yeum has served as the Director and Administrative Professor responsible for the TESOL certificate programs at Sookmyung for 20 years. In the process, she has gained a deep understanding of the notion of program quality assurance and leadership.
