Bridge mills galway language centre eaquals presentation

1. Bridge Mills Galway Language
Centre
Patrick Creed
School Director
Sean Sullivan
Director of Studies
www.galwaylanguage.com
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2. Bridge Mills Galway Language
Centre

3. Partnership and the EAQUALS
Network
Problems of working alone:
•What is best practice?
•How do you know what you are
doing is correct?
•Who are you following?
•What do you need to learn?
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4. Solution
•Accreditations? EAQUALS? ACELS?
•Qualifications for staff - DELTA?
•Work with other local schools (if possible?)
•Work with schools in EAQUALS network
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5. Work with (local) schools SEAN
•VISIT to Dublin school – Delfin English School
(non EAQUALS member) www.delfinschool.com
•Why we organised it
•How we organised it.
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6. Work with local schools SEAN
•What happened – Different schools – different
needs
•Feedback
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7. Work with local schools Patrick
•Marketing project- Teacher training courses
•Survey monkey (EAQUALS (Alpha College and
Emerald Cultural Institute) and non
EAQUALS member schools)
•What happened
•Feedback
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8. Erasmus+ and EAQUALS
•What Erasmus+ project did we choose?
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•KA1 – Teacher training (working with non EAQUALS
schools)
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•Key Action 2 (KA2) — Cooperation for innovation and the
exchange of good practices — Strategic partnerships in
the field of education, training (deadline 30/04/2014)
(EAQUALS and non EAQUALS partner)
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•http://new.eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2013_362_R_NS0004&from=EN
•http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus-programme-guide_en.pdf
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9. Erasmus +
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•Activities that strengthen the cooperation
between organisations with a view to
establishing exchanges of practice
•1 Erasmus+ partner (Greek -Bourtsoukli
Language School) + 1 non EAQUALS
partner(Italian)
(www.bourtsoukli.gr - PANAGIOTA BOURTSOUKLI)
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10. KA2 projects
•Teacher training and exchange of good
practice
•Teaching techniques and learning vocabulary
for all languages
•Language acquisition
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11. What next?
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•What does your organisation need to learn?
•Who are the stake holders?
•Potential for information exchange
•Potential for training within the network
•Possibility to prepare for inspection?
•No limits?
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12. Contacts
•Patrick Creed
•[email protected]
•Tel: [phone]
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•Sean Sullivan
•[email protected]
•www.galwaylanguage.com