Mark Bain
June 1st, 2011
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Here’s the presentation put together by Nicky Hockly’s group, which I also participated in. I’m the unshaven one showing my loyalty by wearing the TDSIG t-shirt.

Luke Meddings
March 13th, 2011
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I’ve always felt that dogme, a genuinely learner-centred approach that turns top-down orthodoxy on its head, is intrinsically linked to teacher development. It may now be true to say that teacher development must be linked intrinsically to dogme, if the latter’s gradual evolution from a critique of materials overuse into a framework teaching approach is [...]

Mark Bain
February 8th, 2011
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REGISTER NOW! We are happy to announce The Unplugged Conference, a one-day event on Sat 21 May 2011 at OxfordTEFL, Barcelona, Spain, organised along Open Space Technology lines so as to maximise participation, and with the aim of exploring and debating issues involved in unplugging teaching, teacher training and teacher development. The event  is organised [...]

Mark Bain
March 8th, 2010
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“ELT, life, the universe and everything” Harrogate, 7 April 2010 This is a Pre-Conference Event with a difference: in the world where change is the only constant, we are going to challenge the need to stick to things as they are and venture into the universe of the unplanned, where anything can happen. The structure [...]

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