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Where teachers meet and learn ETAS Christmas e-Newsletter Photo by Susanne Jutzeler from Pexels Dear *|FNAME|*, Sign up now for the 35th ETAS Annual Conference and AGM in Zofingen on 19th and 20th January 2019! Two days full of learning, networking, chatting
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Where teachers meet and learn
ETAS Christmas e-Newsletter
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Dear *|FNAME|*,
Sign up now for the 35th ETAS Annual Conference and AGM in Zofingen on
19th and 20th January 2019! Two days full of learning, networking, chatting
and sharing ideas are waiting for you as well as an excellent book exhibition
and the launch of a new teacher-to-teacher project. This year's plenary
speakers include Paul Dummett, Marjorie Rosenberg, Rob Dean and Thom
Kiddle. To find out more and to register, please see here.
Photo credit: City of Zofingen
Are you coming to Zofingen on Friday and don't have any plans for the evening
yet? Join our Friday Evening Event and experience the incomparable charm
of the historical city of Zofingen, which has retained its allure from the past to
the present day! The free walking tour starts at 6:00 p.m. and takes
approximately 60 minutes. It will be followed by dinner in a selected
restaurant. If you are interested, email Alice Knöpfel
([email protected]) for more information or to sign up by 11th
January.
If you want to invite colleagues and friends to the ETAS Conference and the
Friday Evening Event, flyers are available from Annegret Richmond
([email protected]) to scatter round teachers' rooms and stick on noticeboards.
Some regional ETAS Events are already scheduled for January and February,
this month's Twitter recap contains, among others, our own Young Learners
and Teens SIG Coordinator Rachael Harris's blog about teaching resolutions,
Rob Dean is going on a mini-tour before he joins us at the ETAS Conference,
Prof. James Shapiro is coming to Lucerne on the last weekend in January and
the VACLE Conference is taking place in Malta in February. Of course, we
have more books and other materials for you to choose from if you want to
write a review.
Please note that the ETAS office will be closed during the winter holidays.
The ETAS Team wishes you a wonderful winter break! We look forward to
seeing you at the Annual Conference and AGM in Zofingen!
Kind regards,
Your ETAS Team
Pre-Conference mini-tour with Rob Dean
Rob Dean
Our friends and colleagues at Pearson are enabling a pre-Conference mini-
tour to Zurich and Basel so that teachers who are not able to attend the
Conference and AGM will still have access to first-class teacher development
opportunities. Rob, a teacher, director of studies and teacher trainer since 1994,
is a familiar face at ETAS events and will be talking on the topic One Size Does
Not Fit All – Creating an Inclusive Classroom.
Please save the following dates for your diaries: Thursday, 17th January at
allegra!, Lagerstrasse, Zürich and Friday, 18th January at academia
language school in Basel. Further details will follow from your Regional
Coordinators, but if you are interested in reserving a seat at one of these
events, please get in touch with Lupe at [email protected] or Eric at zuri-
ETAS Journal News
Meet the ETAS Journal team!
Come and talk to the ETAS Journal team on the Journal stand at the
AGM/Conference about what you would like to read in upcoming ETAS
Journals. The Journal team would like to hear from you, the readers, about
what interests you and what information, resources and articles you need.
You're also always welcome to email to [email protected] or [email protected]. If
you'd like to write a contribution on an issue that you feel strongly about, get in
touch!
Prof. James Shapiro at the aha Festival for Science
and Knowledge in Lucerne
Prof. James Shapiro
Prof. James Shapiro, who granted ETAS Journal an interview in 2017 (see
here), will give a talk at the aha Festival for Science and Knowledge on what
it was like to see the new production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar on 11th
September 1599. The Festival will take place in Lucerne on 25th/26th
January. There will be lots of other exciting talks for you to explore. Check out
here.
Want Free Resources? Write a Review!
Learn a new skill for 2019 or rediscover your passion for writing and help inform
educators everywhere about the latest materials on the market. This month, we
have new resources from Macmillan Education and brand new
books from Leo Selivan and Alex Rawlings!
Visit the Book Reviews website for even more titles and guidelines. Hannah
McCulloch ([email protected]) is looking forward to hearing from you and
wishes you all a wonderful winter break.
Upcoming ETAS Events
Bern, 9th January:
ELT Springboard - Leadership and Lesson Planning
David and Ben from ELT Springboard are so looking forward to the ETAS
Annual Conference and AGM that they want to test drive their workshops
before the main event!
• David Kaufher: Teacher attitude and leadership, the value a teacher
provides
• Ben Hoyt: Lesson + lesson + lesson = syllabus — Is this the best way?
You’ll get a sneak preview of the workshops and they’ll get valuable feedback
from their peers. More details on the ETAS website. See you next year!
Geneva, 1st February and La Tour de Peilz, 2nd
February:
How to improve your Students' Reading Skills at the
B2 and C1 Levels
Jayne Kyte
It is generally easier to develop our students’ productive skills than it is to
develop their receptive skills. However, as teachers we are acutely aware of the
importance of improving our learners’ receptive skills in order for them to
achieve success. In this interactive session, facilitated by Jayne Kyte, ETAS’
own Teacher Development chair, you will take an in-depth look at the reading
tasks for the B2 and C1 levels. You will identify the skills necessary for your
students to achieve higher grades looking at a range of activities with which you
can develop those skills using top-down and bottom-up strategies both inside
and outside the classroom.
Cambridge English Examinations Geneva, Valais, Vaud East and Vaud West
Centres and ETAS Geneva, Valais and Vaud are pleased to offer this seminar
on improving English skills in Lancy, Friday, 1st February 2019, 4.30 p.m.–
7.30 p.m. at Ecole Club Migros, Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 2 and in La Tour
de Peilz, Saturday, 2nd February 2019, 9.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. at Gymnase de
Burier, Route de Chailly 170.
For more details and registration (deadline 14th January) please contact
[email protected] and cambridge-
[email protected], respectively.
Basel: SPARK
Launched by ETAS members Antoinette Breutel and Guadalupe Salazar,
SPARK Basel reaches out to ETAS members and non-members, as well as
teachers of other languages to build a community of engaged teachers. The
meetings are free, however, everyone pays for their own drinks and nibbles.
The next SPARK Basel meeting will take place in February 2019, after the
ETAS Conference and AGM. For more information please write to basel@e-
tas.ch.
St. Gallen: Academic Reading Group
The ELT Academic Reading Group in St. Gallen has been meeting monthly
since January 2016. The aim of the group is to discuss a different academic
article each month related to various aspects of English Language Teaching.
The group is open and free to all teachers from any background. All you need is
a keen interest in all things related to English teaching. It's a great place to
meet like-minded teachers and share ideas. The meetings are on the second /
third Friday of every month (depending on everyone’s availability) at 9.30 in the
Migros Bahnhof Cafeteria. For more information please write to Gemma
Lunn ([email protected]).
Lausanne:
Social-Professional Apéro for Teachers of English
and other Languages
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Watch the ETAS Vaud section of the website for information about networking
events in 2019, as well as a workshop on Intercultural Competences
combined with subsequent swap shops on the themes of Young
Learners/Teens and Technology to facilitate or supplement classroom
activities in mid-February! Details will be made available as venues and dates
are confirmed. For any questions please write to Sharon Acton and Sonia
Spenlehauer at [email protected].
Other ELT Events
Malta, 15th-16th February:
Visual Arts Creation in Language Education (VACLE)
Conference
The VACLE Conference is taking place in Malta on 15th-16th February
2019. The conference is an innovative event that explores the possibilities that
creation of the visual arts (drawing, painting, design, crafts, photography, film-
making, video-making, computer art and gaming) offers to both language
teachers and language learners. The VACLE Conference seeks to bring
together leading experts and practitioners in visual arts creation in language
learning that share their experiences, insights and know-how, and provide
participants with a unique opportunity to enhance their competence in teaching
visual arts creation in the language classroom.The plenary speakers are Kieran
Donaghy and Joanna Norton. For more information please click here.
For more upcoming events please see here.
Image by Pixabay / Creative Commons
Last Month's Most Popular Tweets Were:
• English is Alive: Recent changes in the English language and how
we can keep our English up to date via @IHWorld
• A new online bulletin for ELTs via @theeltworker
• The Teacher you want to be – Teaching Resolutions
via @fabenglishteach
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EFL Webinars
Your opportunity to embark on professional development at home! Check out
the EFL Webinar section on our website. ETAS members can explore new
topics and interact with teachers around the globe, all from the comfort of home!
Click on the image above to find out more.
Photo Credit: Pixabay / Creative Commons
ETAS in the Social Media
ETAS Facebook group
@ETAS_CH
Social Networking on Facebook
If you haven’t discovered us on Facebook yet, please surf on over next time
you’re online and check out what’s happening in ETAS’ social network. Our
Group has attracted the interest of thousands of teachers in Switzerland and
around the world with almost 1,400 members.
If you have any questions, please contact Hannah McCulloch or Coco Frei.
Follow ETAS on Twitter
ETAS is also present on Twitter @ETAS_CH. Keep up to date with the latest
developments and ideas in the world of ELT and find magnificent new lesson
ideas! If you are not familiar with Twitter or don't know why it’s such an amazing
resource for teachers, this blog post has some handy tips.
Photo Credit: Pixabay / Creative Commons
ETAS Library
The ETAS Library has a wealth of useful and relevant ELT titles available for
you to borrow. Don’t forget to check out the online Library catalogue. Click on
the image to find out more about Library terms of use and payment.
ETAS Office
The ETAS office will be closed over the winter holidays.
Phone hours:
Monday, 8.30 – 11.30
Wednesday, 8.30 – 11.30 and 13.30 – 16.30
ETAS Administrator, Annegret Richmond, can also be contacted via mail.
Office address:
ETAS Office
Im Hubel 3
CH-6210 Sursee
Tel: +41 (0) 24 420 32 54
Fax: +41 (0) 24 420 32 57
Email: [email protected]
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