IH Hanoi (Apollo) runs first CELTA
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008
IH Hanoi’s new Teacher Training department has completed their first CELTA, and is now looking forward to running lots more! The next course starts in July, and then a full programme is planned for later in the year.
The first course was tutored by former IH Teacher Training Coordinator Mike Cattlin, and Annette Szymanski. Mike also gave a lot of support to the centre in setting up the inaugural course, and helped ensure its success.
Trainees came from Australia, USA and Germany, and, ably supported by the trainers, all worked very hard. The course also saw Nick Kiley training as a trainer, and he will lead the new department.
Provision of the CELTA in Hanoi has been set-up in response to an ever-growing demand for English training, and English teachers, in Vietnam, and it’s hoped that the IH reputation for quality training will help the CELTA grow. teachertraining@apolloedutrain.com
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Day on Teaching Italian
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Dilit International House - Rome
The first IH Day on Teaching Italian, organised by Dilit International House, is open to all IH schools offering Italian classes or intending to do so. It will take place on Friday 26th September from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. at DILIT IH and will be held in Italian.
Outline programme
1. Entry testing: ways and aims
2. Syllabus and the Common European Framework
3. A new teaching activity "Oral rebuilding of a written text"
4. Young Learners: prospects and methodology
5. Using the Internet
6. (Other topics suggested by those taking part)
In order to have the widest possible view of what constitutes the teaching of Italian across IH we would strongly urge DOSes and teachers to contribute to the Day with presentations, particularly with regard to points 4, 5 and 6. Whoever would like to do so please let Luigi Micarelli know (dos@dilit.it). Each presentation should last about 45 minutes.
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Soros International House Vilnius
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Soros International House (SIH) organized an international conference “Non-traditional Language Teaching Methods & Learner Attitudes Towards Them” on 30th May, 2008.
The conference, which was the final event of the very successful Socrates/Lingua project „Learning by Moving“ and was dedicated to SIH 15th year anniversary, was a good opportunity for language teachers, adult educators, policy makers and learners to share good practice experience and present the newest and most interesting work methods , used in different parts of the world.
As it was the conference about the non-traditional language teaching methods, it was started in a non-traditional way-with an impressive pantomime show. Conference organizers wanted together with the actors to send a message, that people have to communicate, that a dialogue should be kept among people of different sexes, nations, cultures and religions, that any communication starts with doing one‘s best to understand each other.And that for this understanding we need a tool, which is called LANGUAGE.
Then Daiva Malinauskiene, Soros International House director welcomed guests from 13 countries: Italy, Romania, Germany, Poland, England, Bulgaria, Canada, USA, Greece, Austria, Brasilia, Belgium, and university teachers, representatives from local language teaching centres, Ministry of Education and Science and Ministry of Social Security and Labour, Lithuanian Association of Adult Education, Education Exchange Support Foundation, SIH staff.
The conference was attended by special guests: Gillian McLaughlin , Head of Sector: Languages and LLP Coordination, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency at EC in Belgium
and Michael Carrier IHWO Executive Director from UK, who were key speakers of the conference.
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Charity Auction at the IH Directors' Conference
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Friday, 6 June 2008
This year's Charity Auction was the most successful yet, raising over 5,000 euros! The proceeds will go towards a boarding school for girls which is currently being built in Southern Sudan.
Thanks to all the Directors who brought a little (or big!) something from their country to be auctioned and thanks to Monica Green and Lyndy Cronin for hosting the event.
We look forward to seeing you all next year!
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IH Agent Workshop
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Monday, 12 May 2008
The 14th annual IH Workshop was held in Dublin from May 7 - 9, 2008. Business was the order of the day as 66 agency delegates met with representatives from 34 IH schools around the world. Evening was the time to relax as delegates were treated to traditonal Irish dancing and a drive through the beautiful Irish countryside.
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New Teacher Training opportunities
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Thursday, 6 September 2007
IH has long been the home of innovation in Teacher Training and teacher Development for language teachers. We are now offering open enrolment on our IH COLT course - the IH Certificate in Online Teaching. This course has been written and piloted successfully within IH's internal staff, and is now available to all teachers who wish to learn the new skills required to be a successful Online Tutor. Please visit www.ihonline.net for further information.
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New school for IH Network
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Thursday, 6 September 2007
We are pleased to announce the latest addition to the IH World network of high-quality language schools. IH Costa Rica (formerly the Instituto Britanico) is now a full member of the IH organisation. IH Costa Rica teaches English and Spanish and you can find more information about them at this website: www.institutobritanico.co.cr
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