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...

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

On may 19th 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...

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The Shining Network- 2016 Members

2016 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 Tamara Ledezma English...

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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 y...

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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 4th region, and do you know who was there? Yes, Shining network was there!! Our current coordinator...

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The Shining network- Patricia participated at the English summer town

On January 13th 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...

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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...

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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...

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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......

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