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!
lunes, 23 de mayo de 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!
domingo, 22 de mayo de 2016
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
viernes, 8 de enero de 2016
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!
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!
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.
jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2015
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
Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 6th place
and Jamilet Pizarro, who got the 2nd place with her students.
The ones that competed in the Spelling Bee Contest:
Patricia Leiva, who finished in the 18th place and 5th place in the contest
and José Espinoza, who got the 8th place and 2nd place with his students
and José Espinoza, who got the 8th place and 2nd place with his students
The teachers that competed in the Public Speaking Competition
Karina Vejar, who got the 4th place and 1st place in this category
Claudio Molina, that reached the 9th place with his students,
Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 10th place with her student,
Cecilia Donoso, who reached the 10th place with her student,
and José Espinoza that got this year's 3rd and 2nd place with his students.
and last but not least, the ones that competed in the Poetry Competition
Karina Vejar, that got the 3rd place in the competition and
José Espinoza that became this year's winner when training Javiera Rivera and reaching the 1st place.
José Espinoza that became this year's winner when training Javiera Rivera and reaching the 1st place.
The Shining Network is really pleased to know that one of our goals is being pursued and continuosly developed by our current members, we are sure that in the years to come the results will be even better!
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