1. Asociación de Profesores
de Inglés de Rosario March 2011
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Dear Member,
2011 marks the 35th Anniversary of our association. To the current EC, celebrating means
working harder than usual to meet the objectives: making APrIR – the association OF
teachers, BY teachers, FOR teachers – rise to as high a level as possible socially,
academically and culturally.
Celebrating this anniversary means remembering the former members of past ECs and
honouring teachers who are not among us any longer. The association would never have
come so far in time had former ECs not worked towards these shared aims.
Celebrating, again, means revising the purpose of our existence as a learning as well as
teaching community, and setting new attainable objectives.
It means helping our association to grow by adding new members, which will imply
gathering in an even larger group of like-minded colleagues. A more numerous group will
also allow for a greater diversity of interests, expertise and knowledge. In a world in which
knowledge no longer belongs only to specialists, in which knowledge is so vast that it cannot
possibly lie with a few, sharing and learning together and from each other seems to be the
only way to keep updated.
February brought us the realisation that we would need the whole of 2011 to be able to fulfill
all the projects that we had in mind as a way to provide different ways to mark this
anniversary. Every newsletter will come to you with a summary of what has gone on the
previous month and what has been planned for the near future.
Let us declare 2011 as the 12-month-long celebration of APrIR’s 35th birthday. Be our
guests, but help us organise opportunutes for happy and fruitful gatherings and join in!
Activities carried out in February and early March
February 23rd, 6 to 8.30
Teaching Business English: a refresher for insiders; an overview
for newcomers.
Profs. Julieta de Zavalía, Alejandra Garré, Mariela Rodríguez, Ma. Del
Carmen Fernández Beitía

2. 49 people attended this event, during which the presenters gave a sound overview of
teaching English in corporate environments. UCEL provided a superb venue and a warm
coffee-break as well.
February 24th, 9.30 pm
Chatting Meal
Advanced students and teachers got together to have a friendly chat over
dinner (pizza, pop-soda and ice-cream) with Profs. Julieta de Zavalía and
María del Carmen Fernández Beitía.
The activities proposed were fun and apart of practising English we all had
a good laugh.
Mark this date:
March 31st, 9 pm
The next Chatting Meal will
take place at the same venue
(Café de la Música, Santa Fe
and Moreno) on May 31st, at
9 pm. Don’t miss it! It’s fun!
Unfortunately, we cannot
have more than 15 people per
session. Book your seat by
filling in this form
http://tinyurl.com/aprir-meal-
march
First come, first served!

3. February 25th:
APrIR supported the Heinle event: Content and language: Towards a
perfect partnership which was held at ARICANA. Ian Martin provided a
sound explanation of the benefits of focusing on cultural issues to embed the
language we are teaching.
See the pictures at http://tinyurl.com/6hrkrlm
March 5th, 9.30 am
Professional development 2.0: Shaping our Learning Paths
Speaker: Carla Raguseo
Prof. Carla Raguseo gave a smashing presentation at SBS. She showed
new ways of keeping updated by forming a community of practice and
stressed the fact that APIrR has evolved into such a type of
community since its founding in 1976. The session ended with a
recording of Prof. Jeremy Harmer’s birthday greeting to APrIR, which can be heard on:
http://voicethread.com/#q.b1734523.i9126762
If you missed it, you can find the slides of the presentation at
http://www.slideshare.net/CarlaR/professional-development-2
March 8th
International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and
social achievements of women past, present and future. This day honours the suffragettes
who campaigned for women's right to vote, celebrates women's success, and reminds of

4. inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911.
2011 is the Global Centenary Year. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
We do hope all of the lady-teachers in the Association had a wonderful day.
March 12th, 10 am: ENROLMENT CLOSED
APIBA – APrIR Webinar for Teacher Associations:
“Marketing and Fundraising for TAs”
with the support of FAAPI and the British Council
In April 2010 APIBA President Analía Kandel attended the 44th
IATEFL Conference on a British Council grant and represented
FAAPI on Associates’ Day. In this session, hosted by e-
duTraining, she will first share with Members of FAAPI Teachers’
Associations the highlights of the Conference and of that
meeting, in particular a summary of sessions on Marketing and
Fundraising for TAs. She will then encourage all participants to
think collaboratively of possible solutions to problems our local
TAs face in relation to these and other relevant issues in our own
professional context.
This event is free of charge for Members of Teacher Associations with their dues up to date.
It is aimed at current members of Executive Committees and other Association Members who may be
interested in joining the Committee in the future. A list of readings to be covered before the session
has been made available on enrolment.
Your opinion and interests:
Help us plan ahead by taking this poll! It won't take up more than a couple of minutes:
http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=IIMINO_52dac81a

5. SIGs and Workshops: Starting in April
Remember they are free of charge for APrIR members
CALL, coordinated by Mary Di Mónaco
Last Saturday of the month, 9.30 to 11.30
Reading for Pleasure, coordinated by Nora Séculi
Teaching Tips: Conversations about our Practice, coordinated by Graciela
Castelli.
First Wednesday of the month at 9 am
Would you like to coordinate a workshop? Contact us asap.
Further dates to mark on your calendar:
April
Date: Saturday April 9th, 9 am
Venue: APrIR’s headquarters, Corrientes 1323 PB.
Asamblea General Ordinaria
Orden del día
1. Lectura y aprobación del acta anterior
2. Lectura Memoria 2010
3. Lectura informe de Tesorería y Comisión Revisora de Cuentas
4. Determinación de la Cuota Anual
5. Planificación de actividades para el ejercicio 2011
6. Designación de dos Asambleístas para refrendar el Acta
Recordamos que pueden participar con voz y voto en las asambleas los socios que tengan
antigüedad mayor a 6 meses.

6. May (dates to be confirmed)
A crash course with Rita Zeinstejer
Details to come.
Teas and Fashion
Come and taste different kinds of teas and watch a unique fashion parade.
June (date to be confirmed)
Bloomsday
Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on June 16th in Dublin and elsewhere to
celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of
which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. Joyce chose the date because his first
outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle happened on that day, when they walked to the
Dublin urban village of Ringsend. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of
Ulysses. (Source: Wikipedia)
A special event is being planned. You may want to start revising your notes!
August 19th - 20th
In celebration of our anniversary, APrIR will offer an academic event.
APrIR Seminar: "Teaching and learning together: 35 years and counting"
Venue: UCEL
Objectives:
Our speakers will broach interesting topics of their expertise, with a selection of 2.0
technology geared talks and non-technology ones. All talks will be held f2f, on Friday
evening and Saturday morning and afternoon.
Confirmed speakers to date:
Cristina Thomson de Grondona White
Malena Botto
Rita Zeinstejer
Silvia Rivero
Carla Raguseo
Florencia Viale
Raquel Vergara
More details coming soon!

7. September
Teacher’s Day
We are planning a get-together to celebrate both APrIR’s birthday (September 4th) and
Teacher’s Day. More details to come.
2011 FAAPI Conference
Remember the 2011 FAAPI Conference will be hosted
by Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de
Tucumán. The theme of the Conference is
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND
LEARNING REVISITED. What more than three
decades of experience have taught us. The Call for Papers is in progress: check the
guidelines at http://www.faapi.org.ar/mostrarnoticia.php?id=105148
October
A lecture by Viviana Valenti
Details to come.
News from our members
If you are an APrIR member and you are giving a presentation, please keep us posted by
filling in this form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHMxMTgxVnhYdjFpR2luM2hiTEFwUFE6MQ
We will be delighted to share the information in our Newsletter.
State Education
Regarding the recent proceedings leading to tenure in secondary schools (Titularización) we
would like to inform you that the letter sent in December to both Junta de Calificación and
the Minister of Education http://www.slideshare.net/Aprir/junta-calificacion-secundaria has
met with no response.
We have kept subscribers to APrIR Google Group updated on a number of demonstrations
organized by individuals, and reminded our members that they are entitled to an
appointment with our legal advisor free of charge.
At present, we are compiling a database of cases in which non-qualified people have taken
precedence over qualified teachers. If you haven't contributed yet, it is available at
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHpRV1NXV3BDaUhrZ0FoY1YtT
FEyX3c6MQ#gid=0

8. Your Voices:
If you would like to send a greeting to our association, you may do so by mail or email, or
you may leave an audio / video message at: http://voicethread.com/?#u1642534.b1734523
APrIR would like to thank Carla Raguseo very warmly for taking the initiative and
creating this Voicethread file. We would love to hear your voices!
Join Professor Jeremy Harmer - and many others already - in celebrating APrIR’s
anniversary!
It’s really simple:
● Register for a free account
● Click on Comment
● Choose the kind of message you prefer (text, audio or video)
● Click on Record
● Right click and choose “permitir”
● Then choose mike
● Speak. After you finish speaking your recording will be played automatically. Click on
Save if you are happy with it or Cancel if you are not, and try again.
If in doubt check
http://voicethread.com/support/howto/VoiceThreads/Commenting/How_do_I_leave_comments_on_a_
VoiceThread/ or http://digitalstories21.wikispaces.com/file/view/VoiceThread.pdf
Useful information:
Our office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 pm to 7 pm. Corrientes 1323 (P.B.)
Rosario.
Our telephone number is: (0341) 153-983562 Outside office hours, please leave a
message.
You may also contact us via email: aprir.2009@yaho.com.ar (about general matters)
aprir.cd@gmail.com (for administrative matters)
Remember to follow us online

9. Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/APrIR/127774673899632?ref=ts ,
Twitter: http://twitter.com/aprir
http://groups.google.com.ar/group/aprir
Enrolment for events
A note about enrolment:
You may have realised that there are different ways of signing up for activities and events.
1) APrIR’s Secretary, at our headquarters
2) At bookshops, as indicated in each case
3) Automatic, by following the link and filling in the on-line form. As soon as you click on
‘send’, your name gets registered on a spreadsheet which we view immediately. This is a
very safe kind of enrolment.
These institutions support APrIR:
Are you a Director of Studies?
Contact us to find out how your institution can also support APrIR.
Write to aprir.cd@gmail.com
APrIR is your association. Take pride in belonging.