ARAUCO Teachers of English Network 2004

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ARAUCO Teachers of English Network2004 2005
Report

• Erna Robles Mera
• Provincial Coordinator
• Liceo San Felipe de Arauco
• Arauco, May 30th, 2005

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MAIN GOALS

• Meet common challenges to deal with the teaching
  and learning of English as FL
• Exchange pedagogical strategies and innovating
  activites
• Encourage and improve our professional
  development
• Have an opportunity to reflect on our practices
  and also practice our English.

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• Arauco Network communes are 7 Curanilahue, Los
  Alamos, Tirua, Lebu,
• Contulmo, Cañete and Arauco.
• 35 to 40 teachers Elementary and High Schools
• Supervisor Washington Chávez
• Deprov Lebu

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2004 Main Activities

• 5 General Meetings
• Lesson Planning Format
• Pasantía Reports (2)
• IATEFL Conference Reports (Liverpool in April
  - Santiago in May)
• Transference of PET Seminar in Concepción.
• Exchange useful classroom activites
• Workshops
• Second English Song Festival in the Liceo
  San Felipe de Arauco
• Participation in the MINEDUC PROJECT
• (Planning , development and execution of
  it)

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ProjectWorking with the four skills Inside and
Outside the Classroom

• Main Objective
• Train our students abilities simulating the
  KET (8th Grade) and PET (4th Grade) Exams
• Contest that develops and integrates the four
  skills Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking
• Topic Food and Healthy Habits

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CONTEST PROCEDURE

• 3 Levels
• 1.- Inside of each elementary and high school
• 2.- Between schools and high schools in their
  cities
• 3.- Final Provincial Contest in Curanilahue
• (Lebu, Curanilahue, Contulmo, Los Alamos
  and
• Arauco )
• N students 700 (8th grade 4th Grade)
• N Teachers 20

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EVALUATION

• Students
• Get acquainted and better prepared to face
  external evaluations like KET PET
• More confident to manage in English self -esteem
• Know and value healthy food habits.
• Teachers
• Share experiences with other colleagues
• Motivate our students
• Live an external evaluation process
• Self evaluation
• Access to Books to prepare for the KET and PET
  exams (by cities)
• Create an exercise database related to these
  exams.

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CONCLUSIONS

• A very innovative project
• Our students were highly motivated and able to
  suceed in English
• Teacher also highly motivated and satisfied of
  their students abilities
• In short, a project we hope to carry out this
  year.

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2005 Action Plan

• OBJECTIVES and TASKS
• 1.Support encourage the Local Network
• Similar to last year activities
• workshops sharing experiences between us
  contest, etc.
• (eg. May 4th Speaker from USA, Deborah
  Farley was in Arauco )
• Local meetings by sectors (3)

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• Support and strengthen elementary
• schools teachers
• Meetings and workshop to attend their
• needs
• Study, discuss and agree on the main
• competences to be developed in
• each of the four abilities listening and
• speaking reading and writing

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• 3. Participate and support Arauco
• Provincial Song Festival
• 4. Accomplish and carry out
• the Second Provincial
• Contest!