Newsletter No. 47 - November 2013 From the President Dear APIBA Members, 2013 has been an eventful year for APIBA. After 12 years, APIBA organised the third edition of the FAAPI Annual Conference held in the City of Buenos Aires. FAAPI 1994 was held at the Escuela Normal Superior en Lenguas Vivas “J. F. Kennedy” (now “S. B. Spangenberg”) and FAAPI 2001 was held at U.C.A. We hope that FAAPI 2013 at U.C.A.’s new Convention Centre lived up to the high standards set by its two Buenos Aires predecessors as well as by the many successful past FAAPI Conferences organised by APIBA’s sister Associations. In this Newsletter you will see that throughout 2013 much more happened at APIBA: the monthly SIG meetings, Un-Bloomsday, APIBA Annual Fellowship Lunch, “Publish or Perish?” at the U.B., APIBA Programmes updates, new benefits for Members, APIBA Best-average awards and much more! So, lots of reasons to propose a toast to a 2014 full of even more good news for APIBA, FAAPI, our sister Associations and our profession! Read on and keep up with news on APIBA at www.apiba.org.ar and following /apiba #apiba Warm regards, Analía Kandel APIBA President
FAAPI ‘13 Conference Round-up
FAAPI ’13 Final Report FAAPI ’13 Photo Album Virtual Platform: videos & materials Have you visited the FAAPI ’13 Virtual Platform yet? 17 videos of Keynote Presentations & Panels as well as materials from many other sessions are available from the Platform. Read more Your feedback The APIBA Executive Committee would like to thank everyone for their encouraging comments. Read more
Any FAAPI ’13 Tips? By APIBA Professional Issues SIG FAAPI 2013 is over but the trails it left behind are still with us. We would like you to share just one tip you would like everybody else to know / learn. HERE
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APIBA SIGs at FAAPI ‘13 APIBA Special Interest Groups took an active role at the FAAPI ‘13 Conference.
APIBA Methodology SIG Members, María José Larrosa, Nibia Yermos, and Andrea Paradiuk, presented a workshop entitled “Do, Re, Mi: The Sound of Music in Our Classrooms”, where they shared some music-related tasks that they have found effective in the classroom either in developing language acquisition as a whole, or in celebrating multicultural diversity more specifically. APIBA Literature SIG / Reading Group Members Mónica Cuello, Cecilia Corino de Weber and Sofía Masutti presented “A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents: “Martha Martha” by Zadie Smith and “Storm Petrel” by Romesh Gunesekera”, where they looked into displacement, social and linguistic alienation and the expression of a sense of “otherness”. APIBA e-TL SIG Members Ma. Inés Cambiasso, Claudia Antinori, Marcia Balda and Silvana Lopardo, and APIBA member, EdTech specialist Jennifer Verschoor, presented “ICT and Teaching: Collaborating to build knowledge?”, in the British Council-APIBA Professional Development Track, where they dealt with the impact of ICTs on the teaching and learning process. Graciela Moyano & Débora Bagüez (APIBA Professional Issues SIG / APIBA Junior), Viviana Myslicki & Romina Arena (APIBA SIGs), Ines Cambiasso (APIBA Mentorship Programme) & Claudia Naom (APIBA Senior) also took part in the British Council-APIBA Professional Development Track, where they presented these APIBA Programmes, which foster the continuing professional development of teachers and teacher trainees at various stages of their careers. The APIBA Language & Phonology SIG and Young Learners SIG presented two “Meet & Greet” sessions with keynote speakers Helen Ashton (British Council) and Clare Furneaux (University of Reading). APIBA SIGs also presented institutional posters at Virtual FAAPI 2013. APIBA SIGs Closing Event 2013: Saturday, Nov 30, 8.45 a.m. at INSPT- UTN Av Triunvirato 3174, Main Hall, 2nd floor, C.A.B.A. If you haven’t joined a SIG yet, and you´d like to do so, contact sigs@apiba.org.ar
Publish or Perish: Research, Academic Writing and Higher Education Institutions” at Universidad de Belgrano
On 6 August… Cristina Banfi discussed “Publish or Perish: Does it apply to us?” Lorrain Ledwith & Alejandro Parini led the talk “Writing about What and For Whom?: Creating a space for academic production” Find the session materials and more information HERE
See photos HERE
Thanks to APIBA Honorary Member Cristina Banfi for waiving her fees to support APIBA
Honorarios Profesionales: Actualización agosto-diciembre 2013 APIBA SIG Temas Profesionales actualizó su relevamiento sobre el promedio de los honorarios que nuestros asociados/as han aportado para cada rubro en base al Relevamiento de honorarios profesionales, que comprende una consulta sobre el valor de la hora de clase de 60 minutos. Es recomendable emplear estos honorarios como referencia para fijar los propios. Trabajar en esta línea significa conocer el mercado y saber qué hacen los colegas. Ver el Informe
APIBA Programmes APIBA Junior Programme is aimed at teacher trainees who are at the last stage of their studies and would like to network with graduate teachers to start off their career. Read more Those willing to join APIBA Senior Members’ Club please contact Claudia Naom senior@apiba.org.ar The Mentoring Programme offered by APIBA welcomes APIBA Members who would like to become mentees as well as APIBA Members who would like to become mentors themselves by sharing their experience and helping others. Quite a number of people attended the Programme presentation at the FAAPI 2013 Conference. If you didn’t, you can always get in touch for a meeting. The Mentoring program is still alive and kicking so don´t forget you can get extra help in your career when facing a change or a taking a new path. We are ready and willing to give a hand. For further information or to request an interview, please write to Inés Cambiasso mentorazgo@apiba.org.ar Read more
APIBA 2013 Publications “El inglés para mí y para mis hijos”. Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA 2013. Este breve artículo brinda información general sobre los aspectos que debe evaluar quien desea tomar clases de inglés, teniendo en cuenta características del docente, intereses del aprendiz, tiempo disponible, etc. “El Valor del título docente”. Recopilación de G. C. Moyano y C. P. Smith. Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA 2013. "Horas Extracurriculares o Extra-Programáticas ". Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA 2013. Material recopilado por M. L. Ghisalberti, G. C. Moyano, C. P. Smith y A. B. Tur . APIBA SIG Temas Profesionales. El documento expone las características del empleo docente en las escuelas privadas bajo la denominación “horas extraprogramáticas / extracurriculares” y da cuenta de las diferencias que existen con las horas curriculares. “La biodata”. Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA 2013. Este documento recopila los requerimientos básicos para redactar una biodata. Day, R. A. 2013. Forty Years of Teaching English: APIBA 1971-2011. A History of the Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: APIBA. (ISBN underway; link will be available soon) Moyano, G. C. & C. P. Smith. 2013. “Las Tareas Pasivas Docentes: Cómo transformarlas en una acción saludable”. Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA Folletos / Resúmenes de presentaciones dictadas en el 38° Congreso FAAPI, Trayecto Capacitación para Asociaciones Civiles sin Fines de Lucro, “Los SI y los NO de una Asociación de Profesores de Inglés (API)”, 27-28 septiembre de 2013 Barchuk, L. y L. Copteleza. 2013. "Voluntariado para APIs: los SI y los NO". Con el apoyo de AFS Programas Interculturales Gullco Groisman, S. 2013. “Algunas reflexiones sobre la dinámica de los grupos pequeños”. Thomson, C. 2013. "Aspectos Institucionales de una API: los SI y los NO".
Arena, R. & V. Myslicki. Updated edition of Kandel, A. 2002. APIBA SIGs Handbook. Buenos Aires: Ediciones APIBA. ISBN 987-20307-1-5 Kandel, A. & G. C. Moyano. Manual de Funciones de APIBA. APIBA SEEDS on Interculturality & Diversity
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Become an APIBA Local Delegate HERE Tradición, autonomía, innovación y reforma en la enseñanza superior en lenguas en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires by Cristina Banfi Revista Lenguas V;vas N°9, mayo 2013. “El quehacer de los profesionales de las lenguas en perspectiva histórica” Teacher Training and MOOCs - by Nora Lizenberg Last October I had the opportunity to present a paper at the 25th ICDE Conference (ICDE stands for International Council for Open and Distance Education) held in Tianjin, a city 114km from Beijing, in China. READ MORE
APIBA Best Average Awards 2013 On 27 September APIBA was present at E.N.S. en Lenguas Vivas S.E.B. de Spangenberg Graduation Ceremony. APIBA former President Stella Schulte handed over the APIBA Best-Average Award to newly-graduate María de los Ángeles Cavaciocchi, who has already become an APIBA Member. Many thanks to SBS Bookshop for their donation of books for the award.
Interview on APIBA A Year 4 teacher trainee from I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan R. Fernández” contacted APIBA President Analía Kandel to find out more about the Association as part of an assignment from her “English Language 4” teacher, APIBA Member Claudia Ferradas. Read the interview HERE
News from FAAPI: A.J.A.L. Read AJAL Vol. 01, No. 02 (Nov 2013) HERE FAAPI invites contributors to submit their manuscripts to AJAL’s special issue: “From the oral tradition to electronic literature: theory, criticism and teaching.” This special issue seeks submissions of research articles, reviews and how-to-do-it writing based on teaching experience. More information HERE Deadline: 30 January 2014
Discounts and benefits for APIBA Members
1. Discounts Now APIBA Members with their dues up to date can attend ESSARP training courses free of charge* www.essarp.org.ar * Please note there is a maximum number of seats for APIBA Members per course
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FAAPI 2014 by APISE Santiago del Estero
Social News from APIBA Members Paula López Cano and Claudia Ferradas, who have been appointed Rectora and Regente respectively at IES LV JRF Marina Cantarutti for having been awarded the Brita Haycraft Better Spoken English Scholarship (International House / IATEFL Pronunciation SIG) María Cristina Thomson por la Mención obtenida por su publicación Relatos (in)mortales en el Concurso de Banda Dibujada. www.bandadibujada.blogspot.com/ Premios Mariángeles Portilla for having been awarded a Gov’t of Buenos Aires / Fulbright Scholarship APIBA Members, share your news in our Newsletter HERE APIBA wishes to thank Graciela Moyano sociales@apiba.org.ar for contacting APIBA Members to offer condolences, thank-you’s and congratulations.
Welcome all 2013 New APIBA Members!
(in chronological order, by date of membership)
Cristina Magno, Natalia Boffa, Graciela Iglesias, Analía Ferraro, María Ximena Maceri, Cintia García, Marcela Russo, Leandro Carreño, Adriana García Pelayo, Karin Demarco, Yael Hasbani, Patricia Gómez, Sofía Masutti, Marcia Balda, Patricia Raimondi, Cecilia Dagnino, Gonzalo Rosetti, Lucía Perez Peña, Melina Porto, María José Larrosa, María Florencia Borrello, Ivana Gambarrutta, Valeria Sterren, Natalia Floridia, Celeste Cetra, Silvia Stefanelli, Adriana Pavy, Mónica Ziegler, Diana Palomino, Patricia Onganía, María de los Angeles Cavaciocchi
SIGs Closing – Annual General Meeting – End-of-Year Toast
The following APIBA Executive Committee (FAAPI 2013 Organising Committee) will be renewed at the 30 November 2013 Annual General Meeting President: Analía Kandel Vice-President: Corine Arguimbau Secretary: Belén Tur Treasurer: Cecilia Cicolini Deputy Treasurer: Laura Karina López Members: Laura Renart Mariángeles Portilla Valeria Kharsansky Laureana Moreno
In accordance with legal regulations for “Asociaciones Civiles”, the APIBA Executive Committee is composed of elected Members of the Association (APIBA Statutes, Article 8) who perform their duties pro bono (ad honorem)
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