1. ETRC Advisory Board Meeting
March 29, 2013

2. Agenda
 analyze ETRC daily work and availability of its
resources,
 report about seminars and workshops for English
teachers;
 present results of the Spring School 2013;
 report about the collaboration with the
administration of the university,
 share the results of the second pilot Service
Learning project started in this semester;
 report about ETRC promotion;
 etc.

3. ETRC Daily References and Visits
2013 Books Computers Audio/Video
January 57 72 0
February 157 166 9
March 95 105 8
TOTAL: 309 343 17
2013/ month 1 2 3
school teachers 21 18 8
univer.lect. 14 35 27
students 90 255 138

4. Weekly events for English teachers
• January 2013– 3 seminars for school teachers (aver.
attendance: 12 people ) + 2 webinars (aver. attendance: 9
people ) + 1 seminar for university lecturers attended by 5
persons
• February 2013 “Black History Month”– 4 seminars (aver.
attendance: 12 ) + 2 webinars (aver. attendance: 10) + 1 movie
session AMISTAD attended by 14 people
• March 2013– 4 seminars for school teachers (2 by special
guests from Kiev, Pearson Publishing House; (aver.
attendance: 27 )+ 2 webinars

5. Spring school 2013
March 4-7
 seminars and workshops presented by the
experts in the English language both local and
foreigners
 meeting with FLEX alumni
 representatives of the Ministry of Education,
Mihai Calalb, who spoke about the e-twinning
program;
 representatives of Smartboard Technologies,
Ion Dodon

6. March 4, March 5, March 6, March 7,
2013 2013 2013 2013
74 teachers 72 teachers 70 teachers 71 teachers
SPRING SCHOOL VIDEO FROM THE CLOSING CEREMONY

7. EFL training by a group of retired
American teachers
Friday, March 8th, 2013
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8. SL: weekly seminars of English for
teachers of other subjects
 February 11, 2013 – till present day
 3 times per week
 12 lessons by Ana Mocan, master student
 12 lessons by Mariana Ceban, graduate student, modern
languages
 10-15 participants from different educational institutions
 http://animoto.com/play/26FLJuN1CTDaP1CHAatyhQ

9. FACE club discussions for Students
• January 2013– cancelled due to lack of
participants or presenter’s desire to transfer
• February 2013 – 4 meetings (aver. Attendance: 10)
• March 2013 – 5 meetings (aver. Attendance: 11)

10. Photo Contest: St. Patrick's Day
“i've decided to go at the
end of the rainbow were
hard working
leprechauns are hiding
their golden coins. A
great camouflage shout
do the trick. Hope to find
the hidden treasure and
not get lost somewhere
over the rainbow.”

11. New members in 2013
• January
• February
• March
8

12. ETRC online
• Several pages of the ETRC site were translated
in 2 languages: Russian and Romanian 
wider audience got access to it

13. Future plans:
• Regular seminars and events
• An event to celebrate American holiday/tradition
• Launch a Contest for teachers connected to the ETRC
10th Anniversary.
• Host Webinar Series 10
• Summer school ?