Letter from the Associates’ Representative

IATEFL has around 70 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.

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.

Current Associates

 View detailed list of current IATEFL Associates.

Who is who and when to contact

Associates’ Representative
Les Kirkham - leskirkham@gmail.com

• info/suggestions for Associates’ Day & contributions for Associates’ Pages of Issues
• questions, suggestions about Associates’ Scheme

Executive Officer
Glenda Smart, glenda@iatefl.org

• updating your contact details - but you can go online to change them yourself
• info about becoming an Associate
• requesting promotional materials about IATEFL
• putting your events onto our website
• types of membership and membership forms - updating your Associate’s Agreement
• WMS details, bidding forms, questions and suggestions
• joining the PAL list, and questions about PAL

Editor of IATEFL Voices
Alison Schwetlick, aschwetlick@tiscali.co.uk

• contribution offers for VOICES
• articles from YOUR Newsletter for inclusion in VOICES
• info about your events to go into VOICES

Associate’s Benefits:

• Receive IATEFL VOICES six times a year.
• Opportunity to publish brief accounts of what your Association does on the ASSOCIATES’ PAGES of VOICES.
• Chance to attend and contribute to the ASSOCIATE’S DAY at our annual Conference.
• Chance to publicise your EVENTS in our newsletter, our E-list, and on our website.
• Help in forming PARTNERSHIPS with other teacher associations.
• Become eligible for our WIDER MEMBERSHIP SCHEME.

Here are some useful links

1. Articles Bank [ download a list of articles    ]
2. Guidelines for Joint Events: IATEFL SIGS and TAs - working together
3. Comparison of IATEFL & Associate SIGs
4. Developing an Association for Language Teachers Handbook
5. Working Party Report on Democratic Structures

You can also find out more about our Associates from the links on the left hand side of this page.  A complete list of IATEFL SIG and Associate events can be seen on the events page..

Regards from

Les Kirkham
Associates’  Representative