The Shining Network - Current members got outstanding results in the 2nd version of the Cervantes English Tournament

We are so proud to share some big news with our community, as some of our members from The Shining Network, managed to get some outstanding results in the second and highly anticipated version of Cervantes English Tournament 2015. We want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to The ones that competed in this year's Song Festival: Lorena Bonilla, who reached the 5th place Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 6th place and Jamilet Pizarro,...

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The Shining Network - 2015's members about to compete in the 2nd version of the Cervantes English Tournament

As our network was selected to be a media partner for a second year in a row of the highly acclaimed event Cervantes English Tournament (CET), some of our members took the determination of competing into this highly anticipated English language event that is going to be held the 20th, 21st and 22nd of October.  The tournament itself is composed by 4 categories, the Song Festival, Spelling Bee Contest, Public Speaking Competition and...

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The Shining Network - Karina and Patricia at this year's British Council Workshop

On July 23rd The English Open Doors Program (PIAP) together with the British Council Chile organized a workshop called “Material selection, adaptation and design” that was given by Nicolas Dantaz at Liceo Ignacio Carrera Pinto in La Serena. We are so pleased to announce that our network was in! as it was represented by two of our enthusiastic members Patricia Leiva and Karina Vejar, who shared with other teachers and learned about topics...

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The Shining Network - Current members attended an exclusive Winter Workshop

On July, 15th some of our current members attended an exclusive Winter Workshop given by Lucrecia Prat Gay. The workshop called "Forget the common classroom: A creative brain-friendly lesson is possible" was held in the main hall of Trinity School and counted with the valuable collaboration of the Oxford University Press, Books & Bits and Libreria Inglesa as its sponsors.  In that occassion, Priscila Castellani, José Espinoza and Tamara...

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The Shining Network - Internal Public Speaking Competition 2015

To the community: We are really pleased to announce that for the second time, our network will organize the Internal Public Speaking Competition, an exclusve event particularly directed to those associated schools of our network! In this 2nd version, we are happy to extend the invitation to all those students willing to compete in this meaningful event that pursues to provide an opportunity for students to show their abilities regarding...

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The Shining Network - José Rodriguez representing us in the 2015's National Meeting of ETNs' Coordinators

From May, 27th up to May, 30th all Coordinators from the English Teacher Networks recognized by the Ministry of Education through the English Opens Doors Program gathered together once again in Concepción to share their experiences and to train themselves under some new allignments related to RDIs. The meeting was held in Hotel El Dorado and counted with the participation of over 130 teachers from all over the country, ocassion in which our...

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The Shining Network - Meetings 2015

Our 2015's working plan counts with 10 different meetings that are supposed to be held all year through. Take a look at some information extracted from our meetings in the information given below: Month: MARCH, 2015 Welcoming speech from the General Coordinator of the Host School for the year 2015, General Allignments (Internal reglamentation and compromise letter), Delivery of some material coming from the PIAP, Official group photoshoot. Month: APRIL,...

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The Shining Network - 2015 Members

2015 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 Priscila Castellani English...

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