IATEFL TTEd SIG

The Gillian Porter Ladousse IATEFL Conference Scholarship Fund
(formally the IATEFL TTEd SIG Conference Fund)

1. The Gillian Porter Ladousse IATEFL Conference Scholarship Fund was originally set up by the Teacher Trainers Special Interest Group (now Teacher Training and Education SIG) in 1999. The driving force behind the Conference Fund was Gillian Porter Ladousse who was Co-ordinator of the SIG at the time. Gillian felt passionately that the breadth and depth of knowledge shared each year at the Annual Conference should be available to trainers from less financially buoyant parts of the world. The fund was therefore set up to enable a teacher trainer and/or a trainee, who would not normally be able to do so, to attend the annual IATEFL conference. The fund was named the Gillian Porter Ladousse Scholarship after Gillian's death in October 2002.

2. One or two scholarships are usually awarded each year, one to a trainer and/or one to a trainee. In the case of two scholarships being awarded, priority will be given to a trainer and trainee who work together, but all other applications will be carefully considered on merit. For 2009 one scholarship will be awarded.

3. All individual members of IATEFL are eligible.

4. No member can be awarded the scholarship more than once.

5. The deadline for applications is Monday, 22nd September 2008. Applications, marked Gillian Porter Ladousse Conference Scholarship Fund, should be sent to the IATEFL office, along with the speaker proposal form.

6. Each applicant must supply:

- a proposal to give a talk, workshop or paper at the Conference in an interest area to be specified as TTEd, for possible inclusion in the TTEd SIG Special Interest Programme

- a brief curriculum vitae and passport-sized photograph

- a brief statement of how attending the IATEFL Annual Conference would benefit them, with specific reference to trainer/trainee programmes carried out and/or planned in their local context (max. 1000 words)

- a letter of recommendation from an employer, an established member of the profession or a member of IATEFL of at least three years' standing

7. The successful applicants will be required to sign a letter committing them to:

- writing up their experience for the TTEd SIG newsletter, to be submitted by 15th June 2009 following the conference

and

- writing an article for the TTEd SIG newsletter on how attending the IATEFL Conference affected their programmes of work in their local context, to be submitted before the following Annual Conference.

8. The GPL Conference Fund Committee will decide at a meeting in October/November 2008 which of the applicants are to be awarded a scholarship.

9. The GPL Conference Fund Committee shall consist of: TTEd SIG co-ordinator, one other member of the SIG committee and the President or Vice-President of IATEFL, the SIGs Representative or a delegated IATEFL committee member.

10.The sum available for the 2009 scholarship is a maximum amount to any one member of £600. This will cover some travel or accommodation costs.