The law of two feet: a reflection on the Istanbul conference

The Teacher Development and Learning Technologies SIG Joint conference in Istanbul in May, entitled “Developing with and without technology”, explored the role of technology in our development as teachers. Gavin Dudeney referred to the innovation cycle where a period...

The Unplugged Conference – A report from Barcelona.

A report of the Unplugged Conference of the 21st May by Catalina Dumitrescu. Catalina is a teacher trainer at Oxford TEFL  Barcelona ‘It’s so easy not to practise what you preach. It´s better to sit down and talk. We all have so much to say. Not a good idea to be...

Interview with Luke Meddings at IATEFL 2011

Luke Meddings will be giving a Dogme demonstration lesson, along with Scott Thornbury, at the Barcelona Unplugged Conference in May. Register now, as places are limited. Find out more

Moving away from ‘dogme moments’

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...