Talent Shows
FEELTA and NOVELTA have excelled in organizing Talent Shows. Here is their stories how to start these events
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Possible TA ActivitiesRepresentatives of 16 EFL Teachers' Associations shared their experience at the Panel "How to Make the Association Stronger" during the XVth NATE Conference in Kazan.
Here is a list of the activities that help unite teachers and make the Association stronger:
- competitions (translation, speaking, debating, public speaking, poetry reading, etc.)
- festivals, EFL Marathons
- dvc's with other TAs
- mentoring projects
- public speaking and other workshops
- debates, mini-UN
- book club for teachers
- conversation club/tea parties for teachers
- seniors learners classes
- publishing proceedings
- international summer camp (that includes training component for teachers)
- creation of an Association website
- community outeach (teach at orphanage)
The teachers also highlighted important factors that make the impact stronger:
- It is important to rotate the venue of the event (rotating schools and universities, American Corners, if possible),
- It is desirable to change the format of activities (dvc, workshop, institute, etc.)
- Teachers' work should be praised - don't forget about certificates, prizes and awards
- Every voice should be heard - vary the content areas (assessment, area studies, IT, young learners, etc.)
- Regular and transparent communication is CRUCIAL (website, newsletter, email, social bookmarking, etc.)
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The Second Annual Festival of foreign languages "IThis time the Festival held on December 14-15, 2010 gathered about 400 participants who presented their activities in two nominations "Singing" and "Dramatising". It was a two day event devided into Elementary school presentations and Middle school. Moreover this time we organised the Festival together with Smolensk Association of teachers of German, so there were also performances in German. The event turned out to be a an exciting holiday not only for children but for their teachers and parents as well. (the official document is available at Samples of TA's documents )
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Second Winter linguacultural school (12-16 January, Smolensk)
It has become a good tradition to hold Linguacultural School for pupils by Smolensk Association of teachers of English. This time the School was devoted to Business English and was titled "Key steps to successful business communication". It included lectures, workshops, seminars that supposed a number of different activities: games, pole-plays, case-studies,psychological training sessions. The final event of the School was a Big Business Quest where the participants were to do tasks checking how well they learnt the material of the 5-days of the School. All the participants were awarded the prizes presented by the ELO.
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Annual cross-cultural film-based contest held by ATES(April, 6, 20011)
On April, 6 Smolensk Association of teachers of English organized the annual 5th Cross-cultural film-based contest for pupils.
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Cross-cultural Seminar for pupils of a village school (ATES)
On April, 23 there was conducted aOne-Day cross-cultural Seminar for 50 pupils of Shatalovo village school of Smolensk region "Tips for successful communication in the world of English".
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