1. Running Quality Language Services Associations
This section contains the profiles of the five National Associations of Quality Language Schools participating in the IPALE project. It also includes examples of networking and sharing best practices which took place during the IPALE project.
- ACERT profile
- DATA on language learning - A survey carried out by ACERT within the IPALE partnership
- NYESZE Cooperation with government offices
- NYESZE profile
- OPTIMA profile
- OPTIMA's Recent developments
- PASE profile
- PASE Summary of the VAT Campaign in 2010
- QUEST profile
- QUEST Radadiana Calciu, Laura Muresan Regional Networking Survey
2. Quality and Innovation in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
This section focuses on high standards of teaching, CEFR and ELP-inspired curriculum design and self-evaluation for developing language skills for better career prospects in the spirit of lifelong learning. The presentations have been contributed by language professionals / practitioners involved in adult language education in all five project countries. They include methods and learning mechanisms to faciliate innovative practices in adult language education (including LWULT-language).
- ACERT DVD demonstrating how to stimulate the understanding and use of the CEFR within adult language learners - DVD available separately
- ACERT Lenka Pavilková: ILMAE - Innovative Learning Methods in Adult Education
- ACERT Lenka Pavilková: Practical Outputs from 2 Grundtvig Projects
- ACERT Martin Hejhal: Motivating in-company students to study (languages)
- ACERT Markéta Vinkelhoferová: Language proficiency descriptors among adult learners
- ACERT Understanding of language proficiency descriptors among adult learners
- NYESZE Studio Italia: Innovative Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages - DVD available separately
- NYESZE Zsuzsanna Blashke: Companies work better with languages
- OPTIMA Boryana Kostova-Stamboliyska: How to meet quality assurance standards at university level - Bulgarian context
- OPTIMA team: Motivated Teachers, Motivated Learners
- OPTIMA Yordanka Angelova: Incorporation of the European Language Portfolio in the Curriculum
- QUEST Andrea Hitter-Kovacs: Soros Educational Centre
- QUEST Ioana Sonea Language Education in a Multicultural Environment: Standardizing Teaching and Assessment
- QUEST Luminata Cocarta Andrei Interinstitutional collaboration
- QUEST Laura Muresan and Liliana Dellevoet: Implementing "QualiTraining" in the Buseness Writing Class with ASW Students
- QUEST Marina Cristian: Implementing the ELP in the English Class. A Romanian Case Study
- QUEST Rodica Andronescu: Emploi du Portfolio européen des langues a l'échelle de l'éstablissement scolaire. Etude de cas: Le Collége National "Horea, Closca si Crisan" - Alba lulia, Roumanie
3. Teacher training and development - innovative solutions
This section includes presentations, articles, links to on-line materials for continuing teacher development and encouraging greater learner autonomy. It capitalizes on IPALE partners' participation in European projects relevant to lifelong learning concepts and best practices.
- NYESZE Osvath Erika: PLN (Professional/Personal/Passionate Learning Network)
- NYESZE: Handbook on ICT-web2tools_100 practical ideas for teachers of foreign languages-available at http://www.nyelviskola.hu/webimages/files/ikt_kiskate(1).pdf
- OPTIMA Svetlana Dimitrivova-Gyuzeleva: Teachers as Lifelong Learners of the Craft, the Art and the Magic of Professional Development, Implementing a Pedagogical Portfolio - A Case Study
- OPTIMA The Teacher Profiling Grid
- PASE Jacek Czlonkovski: Lehrerfortbildung in Polen
- PASE Luisa Wójtowicz Waga: When silence is golden - The less of you, the more of them +
- PASE Luisa Wójtowicz Waga When silence is golden handouts for teachers
- QUEST Anca-Cristina Colibaba and Cezal Vrinceanu: European Projects Promoted by EuroEd Foundation, Co-Founder and Full Member of QUEST Romania
- QUEST Angela Cotoara: Implementing Quality Assurance in Mentoring
- QUEST Anisoara Pop: Raising Our Students' Confidence in Their Speaking with Web 2.0 Speaking Tools
- QUEST Cornelia Patru: Erkenntnisse und Erlebnisse im Laufe des Ausbildungsprogramms "Grünes Diplom"
- QUEST Lucia Petrescu, Anca Colibaba OfficeInterActors
- QUEST Luciana Mag Enhancing learner Autonomy using MEC
- QUEST Mihaela Toader: PRO-MULTILINGUA, quatre modules multimedia de communication interculturelle pour cadres d'entreprise
4. Dissemination of IPALE Activities and Events
This section presents a number of events and activities which contributed to dissemination of the project ideas and products in all the project contries and beyond, reaching a wide international audience.
- QUEST conference in Bucharest (21.-22. May 2010)
- PASE conference in Warsaw (13.-14. May 2011)
- EAQUALS conference in Prague (8.-9. April 2011)
- NYESZE conference in Budapest - Beharangoz - 12. April 2010
- NYESZE conference in Budapest - 16. April 2011
- OPTIMA conference in Sofia (8.-9. July 2011)
- OPTIMA conference in Sofia (10. December 2010)
- OPTIMA 10th anniversary conference in Sofia (3. June 2010)
- University of Economics International conference in Bucarest (13.-14. May 2010)
- British Council networking event in Zagreb - Supporting Quality Language Schools (24.-25. February 2011)
- PRISEAL 2 Conference University of Silesia in Katowice/Sosnowiec (8.-10. June 2011)
- NYESZE Language Fair 2011 in Budapest (September 2011)
- NYESZE Language Fair 2010 in Budapest (September 2010) - Pictures
- NYESZE Language Fair 2009 in Budapest (September 2009) - Pictures
- National Education Fair 2010 in Bucharest (March 2010)
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Dissemination of IPALE activities on the project partners's websites:
ACERT OPTIMA NZELVISKOLA
Publishing promotional materials with the IPALE logo, project information and results - Dissemination through article published in the Newsletter of the Romanian National Agency's Newsletter "Avertimail! 7/2010 - in the "Grundtvig" section: "Rolul sinergiilor in parteneriatele de invatare"
