Regional Professional Association
ELTABB is a professional association and resource group for teachers of English as a foreign language and other English language practitioners in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. ELTABB is an affiliate of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
ELTABB in the News:
"Here in Germany there's a teachers' association you don't (strictly) have to be a teacher to join--so even Groucho would have been welcome."
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Membership
The annual membership fee (EURO 40) includes a subscription to the quarterly newsletter, English Teaching Matters, admission to regular ELTABB events and access to our email list, where jobs are frequently posted. Membership runs January to December. New members joining between Oct-Dec automatically receive membership for the following year as well. Please fill out the membership form and send it to Membership Secretary Simone Neumann (membership@eltabb.com).
Events and Workshops
ELTABB workshops and events are held at a variety of locations throughout Berlin and Brandenburg including publishers' information centers, private language schools and the British Council.
Knowledge Forum
ELTABB provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques and knowledge through our Internet list and workshops which take place on a regular basis. In addition we publish a quarterly journal, English Teaching Matters, which contains reviews of events, informative articles, book reviews, practical teaching tips, and calendars of local, national and international events in the field of teaching English as a foreign language.
Monthly Stammtisch
A monthly Stammtisch offers a pleasant social atmosphere as well as an opportunity to use the resource of native speakers from a variety of English-speaking countries. The Stammtisch meets at various restaurants and pubs throughout Berlin on the last Friday of the month, please check the calendar.
Officially Registered
ELTABB is an officially registered professional association. Our members, both native and non-native speakers of English, come from all teaching sectors. View our statutes.
For More Information
For more information about the English Language Teachers' Association Berlin-Brandenburg, write to the Chair, Mo Riddiford (thechair@eltabb.com). Also, here is the expense form if you need one.
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Upcoming Events:
 | December 13, 2008 - Saturday, December 13, 2008 6:00 p.m. until...
CHRISTMAS PARTY & CONCERT
This year's Christmas party will be held at a Vietnamese style vegetarian restaurant in Mitte. There is plenty of seating, so please feel free to bring family and friends along.
We are also very happy to announce that guitar duo, Lutz Ebert and Robert Hoffmann, will perform in concert for us at the start of the evening. The guitarists met while studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eichler and formed "Teachers Passion" at a later date while teaching at the the Musikschule Dahme-Spreewald. They have inspired students of all ages through their performances in and around Berlin and Brandenburg. Their "crossover" guitar sound includes meditative compositions created while on a trip to Greece, but also livelier compositions implementing special effects, surprising percussion "instruments" and maybe even a sythesizer. See www.teachers-passion.de
Venue:
Restaurant Samadhi
Wilhelmstr. 77
10117 Berlin
Tel: 030 - 22 48 88 50
www.samadhi-vegetarian.de
S-Unter den Linden
U2 - Mohrenstr.
Bus: 348, 200 Wilhelmstr. / Behrenstr.
Please register with Dorothy Sommer at events@eltabb.com by Monday, December 8, 2008.
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| January 24, 2009 - Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Teacher-to-teacher Day and AGM
ELTABB Annual General Meeting
Venue: GLS Sprachenzentrum, Kastanienallee 82, 10435 Berlin, www.gls-sprachenzentrum.de
U2-Eberswalderstr.
More information and registration for this event coming soon!
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| Saturday, February 21, 2009 - Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Workshop double-session: 1.) Four ELT oral placement tests that take only six minutes 2.) Feedback: are we ready for it? by Anna Gebka-Suska
1.) "4ELT oral placement tests that take only 6 minutes"
Correct placement is vital to ensure the student satisfaction with any language course. Lengthy written placement tests take a lot of time and effort on the part of the language school. During the busy enrolment time students are often kept waiting to find out their level. That may cause irritation. To prevent this I devised a very short oral test that efficiently tests students’ levels up to pre-FCE and can be used when time is limited. The idea of the test is based on the assumption that while memorising new structures students always rely on their previously acquired knowledge. During my workshop I will first ask the participants to “take the test” themselves as a part of an experiment. Then we will discuss how they felt about it. Later I would like to explain the rationale behind the test and present how it can be designed and applied by the teachers themselves. Although the test has been designed for Polish students, I am convinced it can be easily adapted to any teaching context and what is more important, the test can be prepared by any teacher to suit his or her particular group of students. At the end of the session the participants will be invited to design their own tests to take home.
2.) "Feedback: are we ready for it?"
Information is supposed to be the 21st century's most precious resource. Teachers cannot provide high quality effective lessons if they don't know what their students need, want and expect, what they enjoy, what elements of English what exercises they find easy or difficult. In this presentation, I would like to talk about different ways of obtaining this valuable information. The art of getting feedback form students and the art of giving feedback to them; about the importance of feedback for both students' and teachers' motivation. And about different ways of dealing with the information we obtained through it.
Biodata:
Anna Gebka-Suska is a teacher trainer for state school English teachers in Poland and has also written a coursebook, workbook and audio material for Young Learners. She is the co-owner and co-founder of a language school and is also founder and academic director of a commercial teacher training center. Moreover, Anna organized two IATEFL Poland conferences for more than 1000 English teachers.
Venue: TBA
Please register for this event at events@eltabb.com
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