Save the EOIs (State-run language schools)!

We need your support. The governnment is planning to change the teachers' working conditions at Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas (State-run language schools) by turning us into secondary school teachers. That would be the first step to make EOIs disappear. Please sign the petition to stop this:  

http://www.change.org/es/peticiones/salvemos-la-enseñanza-pública-de-idiomas

Going underground at the EOI

It's worth keeping an eye on that blog

Thanks to Inés (click on the picture to see her blog) for shortlisting the self-learning blog of the English Department at EOI Coruña for this prize.

Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog is a new initiative sweeping the ELT blogosphere at the moment. Basically, if someone tags you in their list of 10 recommend teaching blogs, you have to post the eye picture with a link to the blog from which you received the award and then post your own list of 10 other blogs you'd like to share. Although many more deserve to be here, I can only choose ten. Here they are:

Helendipity Weblog

Learning English with Mª Jesús

Argente's Blog

Mind your English

Our Advanced English Blog

Cristina's English Place

Avanzado 2 Cristina's Blog

A Cup of Tea?

EOI Leganés

Mcargobe's blog-room

Talk on St Patrick's Day by Roisin Tighe at the EOI

WORD OF THE MONTH OCTOBER 2009: SIT-IN

A sit-in is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons non-violently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
This month all the EOIs in Galicia have staged a 48-hour sit-in in shifts to protest against the new Circular 5/2009. For your information, there is a website which has a compilation of all the news that have been published since Circular 5/2009 arrived. You can also listen to some interviews with some of us teachers here and watch videos here.

EOI sit-ins in Galicia

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