Modern English Teacher blog

In many parts of the world, a new school year is beginning, which means starting over with new classes and new students. In this month’s post, our resident blogger David Dodgson shares some of his favourite activities to get a new academic year or course of study underway and highlights the purpose behind each one.

Having now moved back to the UK after working internationally for almost 20 years, our resident blogger David Dodgson takes time this month to look at current trends in ELT. In particular, he focuses on two positive trends that must continue to develop as our profession moves forwards while also highlighting work that still needs to be done.

Having focused on making the most of the feedback we receive in last month’s post, David Dodgson this month turns his attention to an equally important part of the process – giving feedback. He discusses some of the pitfalls to avoid when discussing an observed lesson and advocates a seemingly simple but subtly skilled approach to ensure teachers get the most out of the process.

In this month’s post, MET blogger David Dodgson considers the importance of feedback and the role it plays in our professional development. He considers experiences in his own teaching context, focusing on why we at times disagree with the feedback we receive and how we can make the most of such discussions to feed further development.

MET blogger David Dodgson now switches his focus to the use of authentic materials in the English language classroom. He offers advice on what to do and what to avoid when selecting, adapting, and utilising articles, images, videos, songs, and other ‘real world’ media to supplement our courses and achieve our learning goals.

In his latest post, MET blogger, David Dodgson, considers the importance of the lesson plan for his teaching. He looks back at how the purpose of planning, as well as his attitude towards it, has changed over his years as a teacher, and looks forward to how planning will continue to play a key role in his classes.

In this month’s blog, David Dodgson, our MET resident blogger, shares his thoughts on teachers’ workloads, the importance of self-development, and the drive for self-improvement. He also considers the need to seek activities and relaxation away from our teaching day jobs, and makes the case for being self-centred once in a while to improve our performance in the classroom.

In his first blog post of 2019, MET blogger David Dodgson looks back on his post from January 2018 and reflects on how far he got in achieving his goals for the year just gone.

In his latest post, MET’s resident blogger, David Dodgson explores the world of EAP to meet the language needs of his senior high school students.