The Shining Network - Our lined structured organisation

The organisation of a group is one important element of the management process. The structure itself acts as the foundation on which the whole super-structure of management is built. The term 'Organisation' is derived from the word 'organism' which means a structure of body divided into parts that are held together. This is how the division of work, authority and the establishment of relationships among individuals or groups are possible due...

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The Shining Network - Members attended an exclusive seminar in Universidad de La Serena

We are really pleased to announce that some of our members attended an exclusive seminar held in Universidad de La Serena for some weeks in a row. Jillian Haeseler, who is in charge of the Fullbright Program, was the one in charge of teaching 9 different lessons focused on the topic "Teaching English as a Second Language". The members from our network that took the determination of attending these interesting lessons were Magaly Rojas, Patricia...

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The Shining Network - Our Coordinator in the 2nd National Encounter of ETN Coordinators

For three days in a row, all Encargados Regionales de Inglés (ERIs) and Coordinators from the English Teacher Networks recognized by the Ministry of Education through the English Opens Doors Program gathered together in Concepción to share their experiences related to English language development and also to attend to different workshops in this 2nd National Encounter.  The appointment was held in Hotel El Dorado and counted with the...

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The Shining Network - Thanks for everything Lindsay Clark!

The Shining Network is really happy to have shared precious moments with someone who has encouraged every single student from Colegio Gabriela Mistral in developing the linguistic skills carried out when learning English language. We want to acknowledge in this ocassion all work performed and brought into life by Lindsay Clark during the year 2014, while working for the Ministry of Education through the National Volunteer Center of the English...

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The Shining Network - New host school and coordinator announced for the year 2015

We are extremely proud to announce that The Shining Network is having two big changes for next year; The first one is related to the host school, so even though we are extremely happy and thankful because of everything that has been given and provided by Colegio Gabriela Mistral in this first year of meetings, from next year on all meetings will be held in another associated institution, in this case Colegio Cristobal Colón was chosen by the...

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The Shining Network - Members from our network got outstanding results in CET 2014

We are so proud to share some big news with our community! The Shining Network, through its current members, established a serious commitment in relation to allowing their students to compete in the different English tournaments that are yearly held in the region, this is how this year 9 of our colleagues took the determination to compete in the highly anticipated first version of the Cervantes English Tournament and the results were quite good. We...

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The Shining Network - Current members about to compete in the Cervantes English Tournament 2014

As our network was selected to be a media partner for this year's Cervantes English Tournament, some of our members took the determination of competing into this highly anticipated new English event that is going to be held the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of October.  The tournament itself is composed by 4 categories, the Song Festival, Spelling Bee Contest, Public Speaking Competition and the Poetry Competition, all of them directed to students....

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The Shining Network - Colegio Cervantes wins the 1st version of the RDI TSN Internal Public Speaking Competition

On September, 25th the 1st version of the RDI TSN's Internal Public Speaking Competition was held in the Main Room of Colegio Gabriela Mistral located in El Llano, Coquimbo. In that ocassion 3 finalists had to perform at their best when exposing about a free topic in front of the panel of judges composed by three English language teachers,  The event which gathered an audience of over 100 people, also counted with the incredible participation...

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The Shining Network - Internal Public Speaking Competition 2014

To the community: We are really pleased to announce that for the very first time, our network will carry out the first version of the Internal Public Speaking Competition, an event particularly directed to those schools officially inscribed in our network, in order to train their students to compete in the Cervantes English Tournament, which is an event coming in October and that is being promoted and supported by our group of teachers. In...

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The Shining Network - Join Our Team

Everyone who is easy going, adaptable, cooperative, passionate, dedicated, determined, joyful, kind, active, respectful, and passionate about teaching is very welcome to join our team. Our application period to join our network is on! APPLY NOW! Write an e-mail to rditheshiningnetwork@gmail.com  including a brief text explaining the reasons why you are interested on joining our team, including also your full name and school in which...

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The Shining Network - 2014 Members

2014 MEMBERS _____________________________________________________________________________________ Pamela Baeza English Language Teacher graduated from Instituto Profesional Valle Central Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Santa María de Belén Lorena Bonilla English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena Headteacher in the English Language Department from Colegio Cristobal Colón Yiscela Cabrera English...

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The Shining Network - Associated Schools

Our English teachers network, is truly proud to extend some acknowledgements to the schools that have allowed their teachers to join into this amazing proyect. We are happy to count with your valuable collaboration and continuing support for the year 2015. Colegio Gabriela Mistral Colegio Cervantes Colegio Cristobal Colón Colegio Parroquial de Andacollo Colegio Lambert Colegio Santa Maria de Belén Colegio San Ignacio Colegio Teresa...

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The Shining Network - Meetings 2014

Our 2014's working plan counts with almost 10 different meetings that are set to be held all year through. Take a look at some information extracted from our meetings in the information given below: Month: MAY, 2014 General allignments about the memberships and the forthcoming activities. Members got to meet each other by asking random questions and got to know the different benefits that carries out the fact of being a member from a teachers...

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The Shining Network - Nuestra Red

La RDI The Shining Network, es una red de docentes de Inglés reconocida por el Ministerio de Educación a través del Programa Inglés Abre Puertas con fecha Mayo del 2014, en donde profesores de diversos colegios de La Serena y Coquimbo unen fuerzas para intercambiar estrategias y experiencias relacionadas a la enseñanza del idioma Inglés.  Nuestra red de docentes, esta actualmente compuesta por 8 colegios de la zona, los que están...

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