(Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania)
Jūratė Patackaitė
Jūratė Patackaitė has been an active member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania since its foundation: from 2006 to 2009, she was the Association’s treasurer and a Board member; in 2010 and in 2014 she was elected the Vice President of the Association (holding this position currently). J. Patackaitė has shown deep insight into the importance and benefits of professional networking in general and in setting up such acitivities in Lithuania; she has proven to be able to combine her daily teaching dutues with extensive voluntary work for the benefit of the teaching community in Lithuania. In 2012, J. Patackaitė won the Association’s highest award – the Baltic Philologist Coffret – for the most beneficial aid to business, for the promotion of innovative ideas in teaching Lithuanian, for maintaining cooperation between teachers of different languages. Being the Head of the Foreign Languages Centre and a Member of the Board at Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences (one of the Founding members of the Association), J. Patackaitė has managed to build a strong team of professionals who share her dedication to supporting the teaching and learnin of foreign languages and cultures, who initiate and offer assistance in organising various activities of the Association. A speaker of several languages, J. Patackaitė possesses excellent communication skills; due to her natural cheerfulness, tact and consideration, her genuine commitment and high sense of responsibility, Jūratė has gained respect and admiration among her colleagues in the Association and beyond.
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