Moldavian Association of Teachers of English organises three yearly contests for students of English in the region to honour the memory of Alexandru Vornicu. Click on the links in the descriptions below to download the relevant documents:
- Spoken English (sample topics, specifications/syllabus for Impromptu Speech; marking scheme for Impromptu; specifications for Prepared Speech; marking scheme for Prepared Speech) - next edition scheduled for November 11, 2023 at "M. Eminescu" High School, Iasi; registration through the online form available via matenews group, by November 4;
- Creative Writing (for students in grades 7-12; poetry or prose - possible starting points and sample topics; consists of a topic-based on-the-spot writing task; the next edition will be hosted by "G. Ibraileanu" High School in Iasi on March 30, 2024;
- English on Stage (marking scheme, rules and specifications) - next edition at "C. Negruzzi" High School, Iasi, on May 25, 2024.
To register students for our contests, teachers must be association members. All registrations for Spoken English are made online by providing the required information in the online database provided through the association's email newsgroup. To become a member, see MATE's page here.
Call for Workshops
International Conference
Iasi, Romania, November 8 - 12, 2023
We are pleased to invite you to engage in a constructive dialogue about the current trends and challenges of interconnected learning in an international conference that aims to create a productive network of teachers of different foreign languages, representatives of various public and private educational institutions, and representatives of the labor market. In order to make this extensive and interconnected dialogue truly relevant, we aim at three categories of audience with specific activities:
Workshops for students and entry-level teachers. This section aims to promote the teaching profession among foreign language students in Romania, and provide some professional tips to young teachers who could benefit from our workshops at the beginning of their career.
Workshops for experienced teachers of foreign languages in universities, public or private schools. The workshops are meant to provide specific practical teaching tips and further perspectives for the future of the teaching profession.
Workshops for university teachers who deliver highly specialized knowledge and skills to foreign language students (training in teaching foreign languages, literary studies etc.). This section aims to develop teaching skills required in university contexts (adult learners, highly specialized content).
In the light of the latest technological and multimedia developments, as well as the post-pandemic context, educators have opened to new forms of intercultural communication, knowledge transfer, data illustration and data storage. The accelerated development of the digital media, as well as the labor
market, influences the general framework for the transfer of knowledge and skills in the didactics of foreign languages, which entails a demand for interconnectedness in the expansion of intercultural skills in the foreign language classrooms.
We look forward to workshop proposals in the following categories:
Language and culture: Cross-cultural communication, Teaching cultural aspects, Linguistic landscapes
Learner psychology: Motivation, Internal differentiation, Learner autonomy, Motivation, Hard and soft skills training
Media and technology in the foreign language course: Adapted learning, Online / offline resources, Augmented and virtual realities, Gamification as part of the course, Blended learning
Learning environment: Learning design, Informal learning, Alternative learning environments LSP didactics: Knowledge vs. competence, Interactive teaching methods, Multimedia approaches, Informal studying, Inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches
Assessment strategies: Testing and assessment, Standard tests and national examinations, Selfassessment, Knowledge vs. competence
The workshops can be designed either for teachers of certain foreign languages, focusing on the specific features of those languages, or for foreign language teachers in general, in which case English is the preferred language of communication.
is pleased to invite you to its annual conference
Awareness of lesson planning. Approaches, tasks, staging & structuring
Colegiul Național Costache Negruzzi, Iaşi, 22 April 2023
This event aims to explore the conceptual and formal sides of planning EFL lessons. Considerable scope should be given to the assessment of current planning practices, informal planning and lesson design, the implications of flexibility and the challenges that current coursebooks present to the work of the EFL teacher as planner of complementary and reparatory activities.
Workshop proposals are encouraged on the lesson as a whole as well as on planning and altering separate activities or the management and development of speaking, writing, reading and listening.
Furthermore, this conference plans to provide the setting for our annual general meeting, providing a forum for teachers to express their interests, preoccupations and concerns related to their practice.
Speaker’s proposals are expected by March 31 at cameliaarhip@yahoo.com. Speakers must include the title of their workshop and a summary of up to 50 words.
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The conference programme is now available here.
JOIN THE 2023 RATE CONFERENCE
EMPOWERING FUTURE BY TEACHING
COLEGIUL NATIONAL “MIHAI VITEAZUL” (Bd. Pache Protopopescu 62)
BUCHAREST 24-26 MARCH
The conference programme and our additional information brochure are now available to download.
Participants are invited to fill in our registration form here.
REGISTRATION FEES :
• 200 Ron - early bird (until March, 20th )
• 250 Ron - late registration (after March, 20th)
Please make your payment to Aureliana Grama, at the following account:
RO31BRDE426SV16860804260
For payment details, mention: PLATA TAXA CONFERINTA RATE
Editia a XI-a, 27 - 30 APRILIE 2022
REGULAMENT DE CONCURS
1. Organizatorul va lansa invitația la festival și va pune la dispoziția celor interesați formularele necesare înscrierii până cel târziu la data de 25 februarie 2022.
2. Concursul va fi organizat pe trei secțiuni – engleză, franceză, germană. Vor fi selectate maximum 10 grupuri din țară și din afara țării și 10 din județul Iași.
3. Deplasarea până la Iași este în sarcina școlilor de proveniență, cazarea, masa, vizitele și deplasările din timpul festivalului fiind asigurate de organizatori contra cost.
4. Fiecare grup va trebui să prezinte pe scenă un text teatral care poate fi o operă întreagă, un extras, un montaj din mai multe surse, sau o creație colectivă (precizarea trebuie făcută de la înscriere).
5. Durata fiecărei reprezentații trebuie să se încadreze între 10 și 60 de minute.
6. Tema nu va fi impusă, dar juriul va aprecia, în afară de calitățile scenice ale spectacolului, și emoția transmisă publicului, calitatea și pertinența textului ales, stăpânirea limbii străine alese.
7. Vocile trebuie exprimate in direct, banda sonoră fiind destinată acompaniamentului muzical sau zgomotelor de fond, menționate în prealabil în fișa tehnică destinată tehnicienilor festivalului până pe data de 11 APRILIE 2022.
8. Elementele de decor (cu excepția unor elemente comune de mobilier), accesoriile și costumele sunt în sarcina grupurilor.
9. In plus, participanții sunt invitați să se investească în toate activitățile teatrale din timpul festivalului, participând la forumurile de discuții de după spectacole și la atelierele propuse de organizatori.
10. Trupele își vor rezerva participarea trimițând până pe data de 25 MARTIE 2022 fișa de înscriere completată, semnată, ștampilată și scanată pe mail, la adresa miramariacucinschi@gmail.com
11. Selectarea grupurilor reținute în urma candidaturii în baza fișei de înscriere este în sarcina organizatorului. Decizia privind rezultatele selecției va fi anunțată până la data de 29 MARTIE 2022, iar programul final al festivalului până pe 15 APRILIE 2022.
12. Juriul va decerna Marele Premiu și trofeul festivalului, 3 premii globale și 4 de interpretare (rol principal/secundar feminin/masculin), plus alte premii speciale pentru diferitele aspecte ale pieselor care s-au remarcat în timpul Festivalului.
13. Criterii de jurizare
Valoarea textului şi modul în care este susţinută de spectacol.
Coerenţa şi expresivitatea întregului spectacol.
Talentul şi prospeţimea cu care sunt interpretate personajele.
Aspectul vizual al spectacolului (elemente de decor şi de lumină).
Adecvarea costumelor.
Spaţiul sonor şi valorificarea lui în cadrul spectacolului.
Calitatea şi corectitudinea rostirii scenice.
Coordonator : prof. Mira Cucinschi
Seminarul "Literature and creative texts: how to practise and test literature in line with the CEFR and the Companion Volume", destinat profesorilor de limbi străine implicati in revizuirea programelor scolare specifice limbilor moderne, a avut loc în 25 octombrie 2021.
Seminarul a vizat urmatoarele obiective:
- familiarizarea cu conceptele text creativ/raspuns creativ;
- intelegerea relatiei literatura- text creativ-raspuns creativ- descriptori CEFR;
- familiarizarea cu strategiile didactice care faciliteaza relationarea textului literar cu descriptorii CEFR ;
- familiarizarea cu evaluarea raspunsului creativ pe baza descriptorilor si scalelor de evaluare din CEFR Companion Volume;
- proiectarea sarcinilor de invatare si evaluare pentru valorificarea textului literar;
- stimularea raspunsului creativ al elevilor si evaluarea acestora conform descriptorilor si scalelor de evaluare din CEFR Companion Volume.
Prezentările Powerpoint folosite pot fi consultate aici: Mediation, Literature and Assessment, Literature and the CEFR.
Documentele de lucru disponibile: programe, literatură, lectura pentru relaxare.
COMUNICAT
Asociația Română a Profesorilor de Limba Engleză (RATE) își exprimă solidaritatea față de profesorii care sunt afectați financiar și moral de prevederile art. 1 alin (2) (3) din Ordinul Ministrului Educației Nr. 3993 / 16.06.2021 - profesorii cărora li s-au acordat gradele I și II ca urmare a obținerii doctoratului. Prin solicitarea de a opta pentru grade sau pentru doctorat, acești colegi sunt lipsiți de un drept obținut conform legislației în vigoare la acel moment și sunt discriminați prin comparație cu colegii care primesc în continuare sporul, deși au același titlu academic. Calitatea acestora de profesori cu doctorat implică cercetare, experiență și competență suficientă pentru a acoperi gradul didactic I, așa cum susțin și legile în vigoare.
De asemenea, având în vedere că cererea de suspendare a OM 3993, art. 1(2) cu privire la doctorat, formulată de către Federațiile sindicale din învățământ a fost admisă de către Curtea de Apel București, considerăm că este necesară respectarea acestei decizii juridice de către instituțiile unde funcționează colegii noștri. Prin urmare, solicităm Ministerului Educației să facă demersurile pentru a se reveni la situația anterioară ordinului.
Mai mult, este notoriu faptul că atât ordinul, cât și suspendarea acestuia se aplică aleatoriu în țară, fapt inadmisibil într-un stat de drept.
DATA PREȘEDINTE,
01.09.2021 prof. Aureliana Grama
Timișoara English Teachers’ Association is pleased to invite you to participate
in the 20th National RATE Conference
BRIGHTEN UP YOUR TEACHING!
Liceul de Artă “Ion Vidu”, Timișoara, 25th – 27th October, 2019
First call for papers and registrations
Are you suffering from burnout? Do you need a guiding light? Do you sometimes feel teaching has become a challenging task for you? Are your days gloomy and dark? Are you thinking about where to find a shining ray of light? Where do you take the inspiring spark from?
Education is a priority in the 21st century. Teaching has become an ongoing quest both for young and experienced teachers. In a rough sea of information and technology teachers and students alike feel at a loss. What is the ideal set of skills they need for survival? What strategies are motivational in such a diverse environment? The educators of the 21st century are in need of creative solutions to respond to curriculum requirements and constant changes, to students’ needs and expectations in order to improve their skills and make things sparkle.
The opportunity of teaching languages in a globalized world should be embraced. It has the power to mould minds and souls, to equip students for life. It helps overcome cultural differences and barriers, adapt to new situations, understand various backgrounds and encourage personal development.
Broad themes of the conference (not limited to):
- Tactics and strategies to lighten up your classes
- Media literacy in the classroom
- Creativity, art and innovation
- The 21st century educator
- Motivation in learning and teaching
Registration and fees:
Early bird (by 31st July 2019) - 170 RON
Late registration (by 20th September 2019) - 220 RON
Non-members pay extra 75 RON
To register for the conference please fill in the form at this link: conference registration form
Participants who plan to deliver workshops are expected to register by 30th August 2019.
For accommodation here are some options participants may consider: Hotel Timișoara (4*) - 0256 498 852, Hotel Reghina Blue (4*) - 0256 407 299, Hotel Boavista (3*) - 0256 309 409, for budget travelers Hotel Reghina (3*) - 0 256 49 11 66, Hotel Central (2*) - 0256 490 091.They are all within walking distance from the venue.
Contact: rate20timisoara@gmail.com
- early bird (by July 15) - 150RON
- late registration (by September 27) - 200RON
- non-members pay 75RON extra
- participants who plan to deliver workshops are expected to register by August 30.
is pleased to invite you to its annual conference
The importance and the benefits of speaking & communication skills
Colegiul Național, Iaşi, 30 September 2017
This event aims to acknowledge the importance of promoting speaking and its sub-skills, raising awareness of the various general benefits and specific purposes of speaking in English as a foreign language. Furthermore, this conference plans to provide the setting for our annual general meeting, providing a forum for teachers to express their interests, preoccupations and concerns related to their practice.
The registration can be done online by means of this Google form (please click to open).
The conference programme is available here.
The registration deadline is September 5 for speakers and September 10 for all participants; registration counts as late after September 15. Payments should be made to the following BRD account: nr. SV66051302400, IBAN RO89BRDE240SV 66051302400. For MATE members, the fee is 100 RON (150RON after September 15); for non-members, 200RON / 250RON for late registration).
In order for the registration to ber valid, participants need to also send to danaaftene@yahoo.com a photo or scanned copy of their proof of payment of the conference fee.
