Associates

IATEFL has around 100 Associates - the exact number changes from week to week. An Associate is another Teacher Association that has entered into a mutually beneficial relationship with IATEFL. Increasingly, though, the real benefit of becoming an Associate lies in linking up to a network of teacher associations all over the world, and through this, a network of language educators all over the world.  We aim to help groups of teachers form a local Teaching Association, so that they can support each other and help to develop their skills and professional development.  Our booklet - Developing a TA is available to download here.

Here is how this network functions. IATEFL provides the structure, creates a forum for its Associates to communicate. Then it's up to the Teacher Associations to make the most of this - to use the electronic, printed, and face-to-face mediums for meaningful communication. So if you're not an Associate, read on to find out what benefits joining might bring to your members, and what ways there are in which YOU and YOUR MEMBERS can reach out to English teachers all over the world. And if you have already become an Associate, please use the existing channels of communication - and let us know if you have any suggestions for changes and improvements.

Our new publication for Teacher Associations - Running an Association for Language Teachers: Directions and Opportunities is available to view here.

A.    S. Hornby Educational Trust and IATEFL Associates 

Teacher Association development projects Award, 2012

The A. S. Hornby Educational Trust invites proposals for funding of small-scale projects from IATEFL Associates to support teacher and teacher association development.

The A. S. Hornby Educational Trust supports teacher development in developing countries and countries in transition.  The Trust works with various partners to achieve this aim, including the British Council and IATEFL.  The Trust wishes to make available to IATEFL Associates round the world project funding for activities in 2012-13 which will support teacher and teacher association development in practical, sustainable and contextually relevant ways. 

Two projects will be funded..  A maximum of £2,000 will be granted for each project.  The two projects will be chosen from the best proposals submitted by the deadline.

The projects will run during the period March – October 2012, with project reports required by the A. S. Hornby Trust from the project managers by the end of October 2012. 

Successful projects supported by this scheme have been run by teachers’ associations in countries including Namibia, India, Albania and Cuba.  

Please see these files for further details and an application form.