A five-phase framework for reflection
Thomas Farrell provides a step by step plan to help you develop as a reflective practitioner. Philosophy, principles, theory and practice are all covered as key stages of the framework.
Reflective practice: what is so special about it?
Atsuko Watanabe discusses what is special about reflective practice, one of the main underlying philosophies of teacher development.
How to keep Teacher Training going at a distance
Are you looking for tips for keeping your in-service training or professional development sessions working online? This article provides plenty of suggestions to make your sessions work.
Reach out
Not sure how to do something? Ask someone. Then ask another person and evaluate the answers. In this article three ways of getting useful personal development are discussed with examples from the non-teaching world.
Supporting pre-service teachers and graduate instructors
Are you mentoring or training newish teachers? What are they struggling with? How can you help them?
Teacher development in the digital age
Teacher development can be a very personal activity. Thinking about your teaching before, during and after can be a useful habit to develop.
A positive approach to (online) English Language teaching
Among the ideas covered are adopting a humanistic approach, negotiating learning goals and assessment, being sensitive to learner needs, allowing learner mistakes, providing real-world task, reducing corrective (negative) feedback, and creating a relaxing learning environment.
We’ve always done it that way
As you change levels, ages, classes and institutions your teaching will evolve, sometimes naturally and sometimes by choice. To keep your teaching fresh, make sure you have a way of regularly trying new things out.
English language assessment concerns: stakeholder voices
Some research by trainers and teachers shows that the one area missing from so many training courses is assessment. Given its importance for our learners, shouldn’t it be higher up the list of priorities?
Communicating lesson aims
Brian Cooke describes some research he carried out. The results show a wide range of opinions on the topic of lesson aims.
Creating material for a CLIL philosophy ‘101’ course
Andrew Boon describes the process he used to design and produce a completely new CLIL course teaching Philosophy through English.
Writing materials for live online lessons
John Hughes describes some of the differences between online and live teaching materials. He looks at formats, content, learner skills as part of the process in producing useful online resources.
Creative writing tasks for online learning
Are you looking for personalised activities which are both motivating and useful? Find out more about some communicative and creative online writing tasks suitable for young adults.