Centro Espiral Mana
  • About Centro Espiral Mana
    • Courses we offer
    • Trainers, Volunteers and Staff
    • Contact us
    • Application Forms for our courses >
      • World Learning's SIT TESOL Certificate Course Application
      • Young Learners: World Learning's TESOL to Young Learners Certificate Course Application
      • Skills and Principles in Language Teacher Training Application
      • Classroom Assessment Application Form
      • Classroom Management: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Communication for Educators Application
    • About us >
      • Materials from our workshops and presentations
    • Location
    • Values, Vision, Mission
    • FAQs about Living in El INVU de Peñas Blancas
  • Our philosophies of Learning
  • Our stories
    • Experiences with the Relationship-based Classroom Management course
    • Teachers >
      • Roger Ramirez
    • Voices and Experiences of Participants >
      • Cindy's experience on the TESOL Certificate Course
      • Samples of assignments that participants have done on our courses
    • The Multiplier Effect
    • Where do our course graduates teach?
  • Gratitude
  • Courses for Teachers and Teacher Educators
    • World Learning’s SIT TESOL Certificate Course in Costa Rica >
      • SIT Graduate Institute TESOL Certificate. A program of World Learning
      • TESOL Training Costa Rica
    • 21st Century Learning and Teaching: Advanced Learning Theory in Practice
    • Internships in Language Teaching >
      • Marlboro Tesol Course Internship >
        • Journal: Marlboro Students TESOL Certificate Teaching Internship
        • Final Projects and learning statements
      • Voices and Reflections from World Learning Interns >
        • intern's impressions
      • News
    • Weekend Seminars for Language Teachers
    • Formative Assessment Principles and Tools to See and Promote Language Learning
  • Courses for Teacher Educators
    • Skills and Principles in Language Teacher Training: Workshop design, observation and feedback
    • Observation and Feedback skills
  • For everyone: Relationship-based Classroom Management
    • What is Compassionate Communication?
    • Resources
    • Compassionate Communication and Non Violent Communication
    • Facilitators
    • Tuition and Fees
    • CNVC
    • Teaching Children to Teach Peace >
      • Peacemaker resources
  • Community English program
  • Projects
    • 2012 Teacher Training in El Salvador!
    • 2011 Visit to work with teachers in Los Santos!
  • Videos
  • Resources
    • Favorite TED talks and Videos
  • Alumni portfolios, blogs and websites
  • Fun things to do in our area
    • Adventure FUN (mention us and receive a 10% discount!)
    • Eco-lodge and organic farm Fun!
    • Wild Animal Rescue Center and Spanish School
  • Hotels we recommend in Costa Rica
  • Learn Spanish and/or Teach English near the beach!
  • Current Courses
    • MEP 2017
  • Comments for 10th Anniversary Celebration
  • MINERD RESOURCES

We are a small institute in the heart of rural Costa Rica that aims to create the conditions (relationships, environments and stimuli) for learning to be rich, dynamic and on-going, and friendships that reach beyond borders to inspire and empower us to lead compassionate lives.

We work with teachers, mostly English teachers, from countries all over the world but mostly from Latin America. We also work with teacher-trainers and teacher-educators. We work at our institute, online and in other countries.  We love learning, love facilitating learning and love our students, teachers and people that we work with. 

     

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Upcoming courses at Centro Espiral Mana

Upcoming courses open to the public: World Learning’s SIT TESOL Certificate Course 

  1. 2020: Sunday, January 5 - Saturday, February 1
  2. 2020: Sunday, June 28 - Saturday, July 25​
The application for the SIT TESOL Certificate Course can be found here​​​


We also do projects and trainings that are contracted by embassies, universities, language schools and other institutions.

Projects we've been doing these past few years: 


Ministry of Education in Costa Rica  (Sponsored by the US Embassy)

2019: 
  • 750+ teachers from elementary and high school from 14 regions in the Ministry of Education will receive a 1-day workshop on the new methodology.
  • 300 teachers from the night high schools, IPEC and CINDEAS, bilingual high schools  and bilingual groups will receive a 1-day training on the new methodology.
  • 1000 teachers and advisors from throughout the country in the Ministry of Education will attend 6 webinars on the new methodology.
  • 13 National and Regional English advisors will receive a 5-day intensive on Learning and Teaching the Action Oriented Approach.
  • 10 teacher-leaders are taking the internationally recognized 180-hour SIT TESOL Certificate course
  • 10 teacher-leaders are taking the internationally recognized 180-hour World Learning's TESOL Certificate for Teachers of Young Learners course


2017-2018: 
Face-to-Face Training
Our trainers traveled to 13 regions in Costa Rica to give workshops to teachers from the Ministry of Public Education. Over 800 elementary teachers and high school teachers learned with us. We gave 80 teachers from the Bilingual high schools  a 1 training on the new methodology.


25 National and Regional English advisors will received a 3-day workshop on Best Practices in Workshop Design and a 3-day workshop on Observation, feedback and Coaching teachers.

10 teacher-leaders took a 120-hour blended course on Educational Leadership and Online Communities of Practice.
Their websites are here: 

10 teacher-leaders took the internationally recognized 180-hour SIT TESOL Certificate course


WEBINARS
We collaborated with the national advisors and 2 teachers to design and offer 3 webinars that were attended by a total of 1000 teachers from throughout the country.  You can see the webinars here: 
Enhancing Language Learning Through Technology MEP CEM US Embassy Webinar 12 06 2018
MEP CEM US Embassy in San Jose Webinar. :Focus on Pronunciation 13 06 2018

MEP CEM US Embassy Webinar: Writing Process for everyone! June 14, 2018


Ministry of Education in the Dominican Republic (in Collaboration with the ICDA and MINERD and Sponsored by the US Embassy in Santo Domingo)

2017-2018
We piloted a new TESOL Certificate Course for teachers of Young Learners 


Courses we've offered in recent years:

21st Century Learning and Teaching TESOL: Advanced Learning Theory in Practice
Skills and Principles in Language Teacher Training: Workshop Design, Observation and feedback
Formative Assessment: Seeing and Promoting Learning in the Language Classroom
Relationship-based Classroom Management (Compassionate Communication, Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Resolution)
Observation and Feedback to Promote Learning-centered Professional Growth and Collaboration
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    Contact us with questions or comments!

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CONTACT US: admin at espiralmana dot org   
telephone in Costa Rica: +506-2468-0020, +506-8863-5744
in  USA +1-585-200-3091

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  • About Centro Espiral Mana
    • Courses we offer
    • Trainers, Volunteers and Staff
    • Contact us
    • Application Forms for our courses >
      • World Learning's SIT TESOL Certificate Course Application
      • Young Learners: World Learning's TESOL to Young Learners Certificate Course Application
      • Skills and Principles in Language Teacher Training Application
      • Classroom Assessment Application Form
      • Classroom Management: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence and Compassionate Communication for Educators Application
    • About us >
      • Materials from our workshops and presentations
    • Location
    • Values, Vision, Mission
    • FAQs about Living in El INVU de Peñas Blancas
  • Our philosophies of Learning
  • Our stories
    • Experiences with the Relationship-based Classroom Management course
    • Teachers >
      • Roger Ramirez
    • Voices and Experiences of Participants >
      • Cindy's experience on the TESOL Certificate Course
      • Samples of assignments that participants have done on our courses
    • The Multiplier Effect
    • Where do our course graduates teach?
  • Gratitude
  • Courses for Teachers and Teacher Educators
    • World Learning’s SIT TESOL Certificate Course in Costa Rica >
      • SIT Graduate Institute TESOL Certificate. A program of World Learning
      • TESOL Training Costa Rica
    • 21st Century Learning and Teaching: Advanced Learning Theory in Practice
    • Internships in Language Teaching >
      • Marlboro Tesol Course Internship >
        • Journal: Marlboro Students TESOL Certificate Teaching Internship
        • Final Projects and learning statements
      • Voices and Reflections from World Learning Interns >
        • intern's impressions
      • News
    • Weekend Seminars for Language Teachers
    • Formative Assessment Principles and Tools to See and Promote Language Learning
  • Courses for Teacher Educators
    • Skills and Principles in Language Teacher Training: Workshop design, observation and feedback
    • Observation and Feedback skills
  • For everyone: Relationship-based Classroom Management
    • What is Compassionate Communication?
    • Resources
    • Compassionate Communication and Non Violent Communication
    • Facilitators
    • Tuition and Fees
    • CNVC
    • Teaching Children to Teach Peace >
      • Peacemaker resources
  • Community English program
  • Projects
    • 2012 Teacher Training in El Salvador!
    • 2011 Visit to work with teachers in Los Santos!
  • Videos
  • Resources
    • Favorite TED talks and Videos
  • Alumni portfolios, blogs and websites
  • Fun things to do in our area
    • Adventure FUN (mention us and receive a 10% discount!)
    • Eco-lodge and organic farm Fun!
    • Wild Animal Rescue Center and Spanish School
  • Hotels we recommend in Costa Rica
  • Learn Spanish and/or Teach English near the beach!
  • Current Courses
    • MEP 2017
  • Comments for 10th Anniversary Celebration
  • MINERD RESOURCES