November, 2008

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Mester offers 15 scholarships for non-native Spanish teachers in Salamanca, Spain!

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Regardless of your years of experience this course is designed to improve your teaching methods and refresh your Spanish, whilst enjoying the city of Salamanca and discovering something new and exciting!

salamanca View

Salamanca View

The scholarship includes all program fees of instruction, social and cultural activities, and airport transfers Madrid-Salamanca-Madrid. Applicants will only be responsible for their accommodation, which we can help to organise.

The scholarships are available for 1 or 2 weeks and are for non-native Spanish teachers currently working in America.

The course consists of 4 daily lessons. The first one is dedicated to review grammatical structures and analyze different teaching methods used to teach these structures. In the second lesson we examine the concept of teaching and learning Spanish as a second language.

Spanish Teachers

Spanish Teachers

The third and fourth lessons are workshops which include communication techniques, original ways of using language laboratories, the use of new technologies in language learning and teaching, and the creation of “personal teaching materials”.

Participants must send an application letter explaining their main reasons to participate in the program, their preferred dates to participate, an updated CV (including information of their experience as educators) and a letter from their Head of Department explaining their teaching responsibilities.

For more information check out www.mester.org/scholarship .

Let Mester introduce you to our new social networks!

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Mester changes with the times and we don’t want to be the last to get up to date with the new technologies, so we are developing a series of groups and profiles that’ll help us keep in touch with all our students, new and old!

Spanish Students

Spanish Courses Students

At the moment we have groups on Facebook, twiter, youtube and orkut (for Brasil): The websites to look at if you want to join our communities are:

Spanish Courses Videos in youtube (Group)

Mester Courses Group

Orkut Group link (Brasil)

From these you can look up our most important events, contact old students, friends and teachers. It’s a direct line to us where you can ask any questions, share photos and look at photos we have of our schools and events, check the latest from us and have a quick look at our videos and leave us your comments and feedback.
We’re waiting for you on our websites, cheer up and come and see us on facebook, youtube or orkut!

Spanish School Newsletters (Salamanca, November 2008)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Here’s the latest school newsletter for our students in Salamanca, La Voz, it has all the activities for November and the first week of December. It also includes a bit about the city trips we have on, which include Madrid, Segovia, Avila and Burgos.

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 1

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 1

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 2

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 2

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 3

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 3

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 4

Spanish Course Newsletter Page 4

You can sign up to the trips that we’re going to put up on Facebook, or directly in reception. If you want to have a quick look at all this have a look at our profile and group on Facebook:

Perfil de Facebook de Mester Courses

Facebook Group Mester Salamanca

You can also access the section with our student magazines on the Internet:Salamanca Students newsletter (PDF)

Do you want to try some “tapas”?

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Jamón Serrano

As part of our cultural program every week we take a trip to some of the various bars and cafés in the town in which you are studying, where you’ll have a chance to sample some of the most delicious food on offer. This is usually typical to the region and tapas reflect the traditions of each area of Spain.
Tapas are a huge Spanish custom and a big part of the social life. They are small snack foods served with coffee, refreshments, beer or wine in the bars and cafés. It’s a great trip for getting to know some of the new students each week and sampling the local food.

Salamanca, Tapas Tour

In Salamanca the Tapas tour is running during November every Tuesday and is 7 euros. See the latest issue of La Voz for information. We even offer weekly cookery classes to show you how to make some of the traditional tapas we taste on the weekly trip!

Group programs in Salamanca

Monday, November 10th, 2008

At Mester we have a huge number of students of all different nationalities, many of which arrive in Spain for a short stay either alone or with friends to get to know the Spanish way of life and to improve their Spanish. During their stay they participate in the scheduled activities and they mix with the other students at the school, being able to combine their choice of accomodation and school in Spain’s beautiful city of  Salamanca.

Enjoying the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca

Another way of working with us is organising a group trip from either your school or university abroad. In this case Mester can oganise your trip so that it is unforgettable and rewarding; We will organise your trip according to your needs and objectives, we will even organise your airport transfer to Salamanca. Our standard courses consist of 20 classes a week, the content of which can be organised partially or totally by our teaching staff, by yourself or by the members of staff accompanying the group, it’s your choice. The timetable and amount of classes each week can be agreed upon and you will have access to a huge amount of didactic material, large classrooms and audiovisual material complete with computers and projection equipment.

You can choose between the different types of accomodation, the most popular of which are Family Stays (very important for your progress), Halls of Residence and for over 18s we have Private Student Flats and Shared Apartments. Combining your trip between the different schools is one of the best ways of combining tourism and learning in one trip.

The activities can be a main focus of choosing a group trip, and we organise personalised programs for each group, organised and agreed between Mester and the trip leader. The program can be made up of any of the activities that Mester offers, with a timetable compatible with the Spanish course, and we can facilitate the privacy of the group, that is to say your students can be the only ones to participate in the agreed activity if this is preferred.

We can also mix the students with the rest of the Mester students during classes, in the accomodation and during the activities, at the discretion of the group leader.

In any case, with group programs Mester is fully open to adapt itself to your needs, and we would be delighted to negociate any request or need particular to your group. Please contact us using this form with any queries you might have or check the program example:

Salamanca Program Example

Group Budget Form