Letter from the Associates’ Coordinator

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’ Coordinator
Sara Hannam, hannam@city.academic.gr

• 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 (!!!)
• 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

Moderator of IATEFL PAL, Partners and Associates E-List
Gavin Dudeney, dudeney@encomix.es

• subscribing to PAL for all your committee members
• 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

Wider Membership Scheme
Simon Fenn

• questions/suggestions for WMS

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 Issues.
• Chance to attend and contribute to the ASSOCIATE’S DAY at our annual Conference.
• Chance to publicize 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.

You can find out more about our Associates from their own website.

Regards from

Sara Hannam
Associates’ Coordinator