The Shining Network- Current members attended a workshop at La Serena University.

We are so delighted to announce that our network was exclusively invited to attend this workshop on May 20th. This was called “Ideas to practice Oral skills with teenagers” given by Miss Marian Neira, current lecturer in La Serena University.

Our members Karina Vejar, Jamilet Pizarro and our new one Sofia Rojas were so enthusiastic to share experiences, strategies and activities with other teachers from different network of the region.

Thanks to Claudia Boniche and Patricia Castillo from Masternet for the invitation. 

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The Shining Network- Current members attended an exclusive teachers network workshop.

On may 19^th The rainbow network organized a workshop called “teaching vocabulary using ECRIF format” This was given by Sandra Carvajal Reinoso who was awarded a scholarship to Costa Rica by FEP plan. Besides, this event was organized exclusively for members of different networks of the region. And our network was present with the current coordinator Karina Vejar and Jamilet Pizarro who received an important gift!!

Thanks to Sandra and her network for the invitation!!

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The Shining Network- 2016 Members

2016 MEMBERS

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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

Tamara Ledezma

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad Pedro de Valdivia

Current English Language Teacher in Grand Mozard Kindergarten

Patricia Leiva

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Parroquial de Andacollo

Jamilet Pizarro

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Parroquial de Andacollo

Magaly Rojas

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Gabriela Mistral

Sofia Rojas

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Geronimo Rendic

Miguel Seura

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de Atacama

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Lambert

Lecturer in Instituto Profesional Valle Central

Karina Vejar

English Language Teacher graduated from Universidad de La Serena

Current English Language Teacher in Colegio Gabriela Mistral

*2016's Coordinator

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The Shining Network- Maya Nair Noonan One of The Judges at Gabriela Mistral English tournament 2016

Maya Noonan is a current participant in the English Opens Doors Program, and is teaching English classes at Colegio de Artes Claudio Arrau. Maya is from the United States (New York City) and arrived to Chile for the first time in August of 2015 to learn Spanish, teach English, and to get to know a new country and education system. She has enjoyed Chile so much that she hasn't left yet!

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The Shining network- Our coordinator attended an exclusive workshop.

On March 18th, PIAP hosted the kickoff of the Champion Teachers 2016.
An initiative that started in 2013 in collaboration with The British Council, and in which more than 60 teachers along the country have completed Exploratoty Action Research projects under the guidance of a mentor.

This year only four teachers were selected and represented the 4^th region, and do you know who was there? Yes, Shining network was there!! Our current coordinator Karina Vejar was one of the lucky teachers with Rosa Cortes, Karina Vasquez and Claudia Boniche.

This event  consisted  in a day-long workshop provided by Dr Richard Smith (University of Warwick) and Dr Paula Rebolledo (PIAP).
Through practical sessions, teachers  had the chance to critically explore their classroom situation through Exploratory Action Research (EAR) which could help them address constraints in their contexts and actively seek lasting solutions. All of this with the purpose of improving classroom practices and enhancing students’ learning experiences. This was one of the continuing professional development opportunities PIAP  committed to provide in order to better the teaching and learning of EFL in Chile.

We are so proud that our coordinator had the privilege of attending a selective and unique event.

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The Shining network- Patricia participated at the English summer town

On January 13^th The English Open doors program (PIAP) together with the British Council Chile organized The English summer town 2016 in which more than one hundred teachers participated. During those two days, Teachers dialogued, participated and shared with other teachers from Coquimbo, La Serena, Ovalle and other parts of the region and learned from national and international experts in a context of total immersion.

One of our members: Miss Patricia Leiva was there. Some of the topics studied there were: Interactive modeling and reinforcing expectations by the English language fellows, Assessing CPD and enhancing our teaching skills through reflecting practice.

We are so pleased that one of the members had represented our network, we know that Patricia had a wonderful time.

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The Shining Network - New host school and coordinator were officially announced!

Unanimous was the decision made during the last meeting of the year 2015 in which all our members decided to name Karina Vejar as the new coordinator for the year 2016! Karina already took this role on 2014 when the network was founded and carried out a pretty positive role during that time. Karina will be assuming that position from March on and will take it for a year in a row, just like José Espinoza did during the year 2015.

On the other hand, as done every single year, The Shining Network is also extremely happy to announce Colegio Gabriela Mistral as the Host School for the year 2016, it means that all of the meetings of this year will take place there. Karina, who is also a teacher in the institution showed herself very excited to have the meetings back into the place in which the network was orginally founded. Terrific news!

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The Shining Network - Current members got great results in the ITN English Tournament 2015

2015 was by far an incredible year for our network as it was proudly awarded by the incredible performances of the students that were trained by some of our members. This is how José Espinoza and Karina Vejar brought home new achievements they got with their students in the 6th version of the ITN English Tournament, an event held in Francis School from Coquimbo. 

In that oportunity our colleagues got the following places: 3rd Place in Spelling Bee Contest (Karina Vejar's student) and 1st Place in the same contest (Jose Espinoza's student). Congratulations on both members, you did a great job training your students! 

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The Shining Network - Our 2015's coordinator visits the EnglishExpo UC

José Espinoza, the 2015's coordinator of our network, had the priviledge of attending this year's EnglishExpo UC held in Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile some weeks ago. In that ocassion, José attended several lectures including some given by lecturers from Universidad Católica proposing several strategies to effectively teach English in Chilean educational realities. "It was such an incredible experience... I certainly had so much fun analizing information presented by colleagues of the area" mentioned José.

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