We are pleased to announce that Mark Algren will present during the Friday session of MIDTESOL 2013. Mark Algren has been an ESL/EFL teacher and program administrator since 1979, and spent 14 years teaching in and directing intensive English programs in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and taught for a year in Hong Kong.
He has taught at the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas since 1993, and became director in 2010. He has been active in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL International) as a frequent presenter at conferences, author, and member of interest sections, standing committees and the Board of Directors (including convention chair for TESOL 2003-Baltimore).
Algren was TESOL President in 2009-2010. With a strong interest in professionalism, standards and accreditation, he has served on the TESOL Professional Development Committee and on a task force to develop the self-study guide for international review for CEA (Commission on English Language Program Accreditation) and is a program site reviewer for CEA.
