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Areas of interest:
- recruiting and retaining staff
- marketing
- academic management
- managing a school's finances
- quality assurance
- delegating responsibilities
- etc, etc
There are currently more than 60 members working in different capacities (principal, DOS, HR manager etc) for schools of different sizes ranging from one-man (or woman) shows to large national players. SIG workshops are run by members and the emphasis is on exchanging practical management ideas which work in the Swiss market.
 Alethea Eriksson, SIG Coordinator
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Alethea is the Managing Director of TLC - The Language Company in Baden. Born and bred in South Africa, she immigrated to Switzerland in 1986 and got into EFL almost immediately but quite by chance.
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Globalisation is not the most elegant term, but to young lawyers setting out on their careers in big city law firms, doctors sharing their expertise across national and linguistic boundaries, engineers working on inter-continental projects or bankers at home in the financial capitals of the world its a reality, and one which can open many doors. But there's little doubt that a good command of English is the key to unlocking those doors. As ESP teachers our task is to help our students meet that challenge. As an ESP SIG our aim is to provide a forum for ESP teachers, to share what we have in common, swap what we don't, and to provide support and encouragement to all those setting out on the ESP road.
 Alison Wiebalck, SIG Coordinator
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Alison was born in the UK but lived in many different countries before arriving in Switzerland with a growing family. Shortly thereafter she started to teach general English at home before branching out into teaching business English in-company. In 2004 she began to specialise in legal English and has since given workshops and legal English teacher training sessions in Germany and Switzerland. Alison teaches legal English freelance and at a college of further education in Zurich.
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Everybody goes through it - right after childhood and just before becoming a rational adult. Our bodies no longer seem to belong to us, our parents are out of touch with our lives, and suddenly everyone is expecting us to make important decisions about our future. Is it any wonder we're sometimes hard to teach!
In this new SIG we would like to gather together those brave souls who enter the ring every morning and try to persuade their teenaged students that English is an interesting and important part of the school curriculum. We want to share triumphs and disasters and explore ways of making the course book exciting, exams relevant and (heaven help us) vocabulary motivating.
 Frances Edwards, SIG Coordinator
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Frances Edwards, Canadian born and bred, has been teaching teens longer than she cares to contemplate. She has worked in the Swiss state education system since 1989 dealing, at different times, with students from 13 to 19 and beyond. She's convinced that pooling resources and sharing ideas will make life in the classroom happier, and give teachers a sporting chance to stay on top of the job. She has also survived her own daughter's teen years. |
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This SIG will give interested teachers the opportunity to learn more as well as share and collaborate on their immersion/CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) experiences.
 Eveline Reichel, SIG Coordinator
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Eveline Reichel, born in Switzerland, grew up bilingually in India and Persia before graduating in English and French at the University of Zürich.
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The Research SIG is for anyone interested in doing, sharing, and learning about all forms of research in English language teaching. Some initial goals for this SIG include exploring more in detail what research is; what kinds of methods there are; how to design, conduct and evaluate a project; how to share the work with others; and the relevance of research in English language teaching.
 JoAnn Salvisberg, SIG Coordinator
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JoAnn has been actively involved in ETAS since finishing her CTEFLA in 1996, joining the ranks of the National Council in 1998 as Regional Coordinator of the Bern-Neuchâtel region. In 2006 she handed over the reins to her successor Gabrielle Schiegg-Cleary at the AGM in January, and in May began the Research SIG at the annual SIG Day conference in Zug. In January the following year she joined the ETAS Committee as Teacher Development Chair.
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