[etni] Fw: ETAI Newsletter 17 - February 2009

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ETAI is getting better and better!

Newsletter 17:  February, 2009


Dear Readers,

I would like to start this newsletter with a message of 'Get Well Soon!' to 
Shaee Zucker, a long-standing and active ETAI member and board member, who 
is in hospital - but hopefully will be home soon. All of us at ETAI send you 
our warm greetings and best wishes for your recovery!

This month has seen two successful mini-conferences, one at Kfar Saba on 
January 14th (congratulations to organizers Ahuva Kellman and Elaine 
Alcalay!) and one at Beit Yerach on February 3rd (congratulations to Aviva 
Shapiro and her team at Beit Yerach!).  I'm getting the feeling that these 
mini-conferences are at least as important to teachers as the 
'maxi'-conferences, maybe more so.  They are local enough to be able to come 
over in the afternoon after school and get back home not too late; their 
speakers and topics are carefully chosen by the organizers to be of optimal 
use to the audience; and the small – (well, relatively small: there were 
close to 80 at Beit Yerach!) number of participants means there is an 
intimate 'home-y' feel about the whole event.   There is often a feeling of 
a 'high' at the end of these happenings which keeps you in a good mood for 
the next few days, and lots of practical teaching ideas to take back into 
the classroom.

Calls for speaker proposals have gone out already for the conferences in 
Haifa (April 16) and Jerusalem (July 6-7).  If you are an ETAI member, you 
should have got yours in the mail.  If you haven't, go into the website and 
check it out.  We need lots of good presentations for these events, and our 
best presenters are usually the teachers speaking from their own experience 
and sharing good ideas with the audience.  It's certainly how I started, 
myself: I got excited about something I'd done in the classroom that 
'worked' and wanted to share it, so sent in a proposal to ETAI, and started 
presenting.   So if you're excited about something – don't keep it to 
yourself, and don't be unduly modest and retiring: use ETAI to share it. 
ETAI audiences are the friendliest and most supportive I've ever met; even 
if you have never presented before, there's no need to feel nervous.   You 
have something to say?  Get up and say it!

Anyhow … the next mini-conferences are: February 22 at Rishon LeTzion, March 
17 at Maghar, March 25 at Jerusalem.   I'll be at the first two, so hope to 
see those of you who live near these places, whether ETAI members or not.

Whew! I don't remember a year so full of events as this one.  I don't know 
if ETAI is getting better and better (see slogan above), but it's certainly 
getting busier and busier!  We need as much support as we can get in order 
to continue the momentum: if you haven't yet joined, please consider doing 
so while the discount membership fee is still available (130 shekels instead 
of 175, until April 16).  And if you have any ideas about how you could 
contribute, or just want to be in touch with suggestions about how to make 
ETAI  'better and better', please email me at pennyur@xxxxxxxxx, or Marna at 
etaioffice@xxxxxxxxxx

Penny Ur
ETAI Chair


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