Competition!

COMPETITION!

The Disabled Access Friendly campaign has teamed up with ELT Teacher 2 Writer and Burlington Books to bring you this opportunity to use your worksheet writing skills to inform students about issues affecting people with mobility disability.

All suitable entries will be published online on Disabled Access Friendly’s site, which is visited by ELT colleagues from over 120 countries.

There will be three prizes:
200 Euros towards the cost of professional development, such as an online writing course or participation at an ELT event (kindly sponsored by Burlington Books)
100 Euros towards the cost of professional development, such as an online writing course or participation at an ELT event (kindly sponsored by Burlington Books)
A set of six ELT Teacher 2 Writer modules:
How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice
How To Write Reading And Listening Activities
How To Write Critical Thinking Activities
How To Write ESP Materials
How To Write Graded Readers
How ELT Publishing Works
What is the Disabled Access Friendly campaign?
Disabled Access Friendly is a voluntary campaign that provides ELT teachers with online material that raises awareness about mobility disability. All this material is completely free. The site has lesson plans, reading texts and video clips at all levels that can be used as supplementary material, for projects and examination practice. The material allows teachers to provide insight and information about life as a person with a mobility disability, thus building pathways for caring and action. By stepping into someone else’s shoes, the students explore their own and other people’s attitudes and become aware while learning English.

What is ELT Teacher 2 Writer?
ELT Teacher 2 Writer is a database of ELT teachers who want to write. Publishers search this database when they’re looking for writers. It is also a series of training modules designed to help teachers write better ELT materials, either for publication or to improve the quality of their self-produced classroom materials.

What are the competition guidelines?
1. You choose the mobility related topic, language area and level. For ideas we suggest you look at Disabled Access Friendly’s reading texts, video clips and lesson plans, and read disability blogs and published articles.
2. Find the full writing guidelines here.

Who are the judges?
Adir Ferreira, teacher, teacher trainer and content writer
Disabled Access Friendly campaign
ELT Teacher 2 Writer
How to submit your entry
Entries should be submitted electronically as a word doc. attachment to:
disabledaccessfriendlycampaign@gmail.com

Please save your file as follows:
Your surname, Your first name. Title of worksheet e.g.
Smith, Susan. My wheelchair friend
Deadline
Entries to reach us by the closing date of 16th December 2013

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Until next year (....?)

It was one of the best Wednesdays, the 14th of November! My students came to receive their diplomas! I felt so excited and extremely proud of them!

It was one of the few Wednesdays I felt so carefree and happy in the past year. The financial crisis has affected severely every single citizen in my country. Many of us, school owners, do not know if we 'll be able to open our schools next year. We are asked to pay new taxes and change so much within our own school, that I don't know if it's going to be realistically possible to maintain financially and practically our schools. So many years of fighting, struggling to achieve the best and offer quality services to our students, to find ourselves living with uncertainty for our future. 

Nevertheless, when you look at your students' eyes, everything disappears! Taxes, obligations and payments. You feel like a parent, when they see their children moving on and leaving the nest. These kids have a special place in my heart because I saw them growing up in front of my eyes. They belong to the first class of the school ever created, seven years ago! Seven years later, they're young teens, full of dreams and full of life! 
                        

                         

My only wish is to see them being really happy in their lives. My only wish is to know they're happy. Nothing else, no matter what their choices in life might be. Congratulations to all of them and I wish them the very best!

You toss and turn every night, thinking about survival....Eventually, at the end of the day it all comes down to this...and you feel relieved, happy and loved, even if it is for a few minutes! They hug you, give you a sweet kiss, telling you that they love you and thanking you for the years you offered them. What they probably do not know is that a teacher offers a piece of their heart to each of their students.

Congratulations, Class of 2012!!!

You'll always be in my heart!

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