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***EAQUALS Digest***
***August 2012***
Welcome to the August
edition of the EAQUALS Digest
MEETINGS
November
2012
8th-10th November 2012:
EAQUALS Workshop meeting hosted by the Goethe-Institut at their
headquarters in Munich.
You can find details of
the meeting here. We advise you to
register as soon
as possible and also book your accommodation - a list of suggested hotels
with their special dates for the EAQUALS group is also available on the
website. Please make sure you book your accommodation before the
deadline, some of them are over soon.
Please note that the
EAQUALS meeting will be preceded by a Symposium on the EPG Project. EAQUALS
members are invited to register for that free or charge - 'see optional
items' on the registration page.
April
2013
Annual General Meeting and
EAQUALS Conference will be held in Dublin on 18th - 20th April 2013.
Further information about
the conference venue will be available soon.
FORTHCOMING
EVENTS WITH EAQUALS INVOLVEMENT
31st August: GAELA
meeting, meeting of national language school associations (Ludka
Kotarska)
1st - 2nd September in
London: ALPHE workshop for agents and educators (Ludka Kotarska, Anna
Andor, Walter Denz & Ian Powney)
3rd-4th September in
Strasbourg: meeting of the working group developing the Council of Europe
website on the linguistic integration of adult migrants, to be launched
later this year (Richard Rossner)
21st - 22nd September:
QUEST Romania conference (Peter Brown)
28th - 30th October: ICEF
Berlin workshop for agents and educators
EU
PROJECT UPDATES
EPG PROJECT - URGENT
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
As mentioned in the
previous update on projects, the EPG Project has now entered the crucial
'field-testing' stage, which continues only until 31st October. The aim
is to gather feedback from teachers themselves, managers of teachers and
teacher trainers on the descriptors in the pilot version of
the Profiling Grid so that this can be further improved
and made available to all potential users.
The project team is
grateful that several EAQUALS members have offered to help with this and
is responding to them individually.
We now ask all ALL EAQUALS
accredited members in Europe to get your teachers to complete one of the
on-line surveys. They are available in English, French, German, Italian
and Spanish, and all the links can be found here.
We particularly need
TEACHERS OF ENGLISH to respond as 500 responses are required in
total. The links for the surveys in English are as
follows:
Survey
Link
A https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EPG-ENsurvey_A
B https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EPG-ENsurvey_B
C
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EPG-ENsurvey_C
D
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EPG-ENsurvey_D
Please pass on ONE
link to each teacher using each link the same number of times (for
example, if you have 12 teachers, give link A to 3 of them, B to 3, C to
3 and D to 3). Then please check with them one week later whether they
have done the survey. Thank you in advance with your assistance with
this.
NELLIP PROJECT - UPDATE
Project partners have now
completed their work on the databases of projects they have selected as
good examples of those that have been awarded the European Language
Label over the last few years. The database can be found at http://nellip.pixel-online.org/DB_database.php.
By clicking on any of the projects you can find out more about them. The
current task is to create case studies of some of these projects by
contacting the project organisers and finding out in more detail why they
started the project, how they worked and what they have achieved, and
also asking the national agency concerned why the project was selected
for an award.
EAQUALS
MEMBERSHIP
- Welcome
to a new EAQUALS accredited member: Anglia V
OTHER
PROJECTS
EAQUALS
Inspector Training going online
EAQUALS has been
considering how to make Inspector training shorter in length and not
dependent on attendance at face to face sessions at conference.
From September 3 -
November 4 six participants will take part in an pilot programme which
will be online. The programme covers all the areas that the face to face
sessions covered with the addition of a Cultural Awareness block. Once
the online training is successfully completed each course participant
needs to attend the conference immediately following the training
programme. At the conference they are expected to attend two face to face
sessions. One session just for the trainees which will be feedback on the
experience of online training and the other can be any other session on
offer to inspectors. This is the preparation for the final part of the
training which is 'On the Job' with an experienced inspector as mentor
Feedback will be gathered
for the course participants and the tutors involved in the pilot
programme. This feedback will be used to implement any necessary changes
before launching the programme officially in January 2013.
MEMBERS AND PROJECT
PARTNERS OF EAQUALS ARE INVITED TO SEND IN INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCES
AND SEMINARS THEY ARE ORGANISING.
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