Competition: win an e-book reader!
Do you ever create your own teaching material? Have you got an original teaching idea? Do you want to see your work published? Then enter our competition.
Introduction & meet the judges
The prize
The editor's tips
All you have to do is create an activity for its-teachers and iT’s for Teachers, our print edition. Your activity should consist of one page of photocopiable material and one page of teaching notes.
From all the entries we receive, we’ll make a shortlist of 20. Our panel of judges will comment on the 20 entries and one overall winner will be chosen. A selection of entries will be published in the issue of iT’s for Teachers that's published in May 2010.
Did we mention the prize? The overall winner will receive a Papyre 6.1 e-book reader (pictured below). Click here for more information about the prize.
Interested? Then here are some points to consider... 
Your activity should be suitable for the summer issue of the magazine. If you want to make it topical, then think about what will be in the news in May/June 2010. If you want to make it seasonal, then think about the type of activity teachers will want to use at the end of the academic year or for summer courses in many places. The material must fit onto one page. And your teaching notes must include (1) ACTIVITY: a short summary of the activity. (2) GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY: any grammar or vocabulary areas covered. (3) LEVEL: the student level the activity is aimed at. (4) TIME: the approximate length of time the activity takes to do. (5) ANSWERS: answer key. (7) WHAT TO DO: step-by-step instructions.
Look at the activities and teaching notes at this site to get an idea of the format or download a sample activity from the print edition of the magazine.
Send your entry by email to competition@its-teachers.com with 'Your Activity Here!' as the subject. Or send it by post to iT's for Teachers, Your Activity Here!, Apartado 5096, 08080 Barcelona, Spain. The closing date for entries is Friday, January 29, 2010.
Find out more
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Robert Campbell is the founder and editor of iT’s for Teachers magazine. He is also one of the judges in this competition. Follow this link to find out more about what the judges are looking for as well as some tips to help you prepare your competition entry. Go to page |
Meet the other judges
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Stephanie Collins has taught in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. She has worked for Cambridge University Press since 1992, first as a teacher trainer and then as an editor and commissioning editor. She is currently responsible for the secondary and upper secondary lists for Spain, as well a series of graded readers for the international market. |
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Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and author. He’s the lead author on Global, the forthcoming adult course from Macmillan. His other books include The Language Teacher’s Survival Handbook (with Duncan Foord) (iT’s Magazines 2008) and Dealing with Difficulties (with Luke Prodromou) (Delta Publishing 2007). He’s also the series editor of the Delta Professional Development Series. |
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Jane Cadwallader is experienced in teaching English to children and has run courses for primary teachers. She was the editor of The Calendar newsletter that went on to become iT's for Teachers. She’s the co-author of the infant course English with Ellie (Richmond Publishing) and has just published 8 original primary readers for the Young Eli Readers series. |
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Jamie Clement taught English in the United Kingdom, Latin America and Spain before joining the editorial team at Vicens Vives as an editor and product manager. He currently heads up the ELT department, which produces CLIL materials for primary and secondary as well as promoting a wide range of other ELT materials. |