Today India celebrated Teachers Day, which is actually the birthday of the country’s second President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Radhakrishnan believed that “teachers should be the best minds in the country”. Among the things that India’s Prime Minister,...
For those of you unfamiliar with TES, their website is well worth a visit. Their rapidly growing digital community showcases a long heritage of teacher development and support. Today, I stumbled upon a project of their called A Teaching Moment in Time, where teachers...
Who do you talk to about your teaching? In recent research Pataraia et al. (2014) explores what the main themes of academics’ conversations are and who they talk to. Participants were free to name as many contacts as they wished. “Departmental...
We here at the TDSIG are slowly recovering from a wild and wonderful week in Harrogate at the annual IATEFL conference. So many great sessions, so much food for thought and our own development. For those of you unlucky enough to miss Mojce Belak’s excellent...
I’m writing this in anticipation of our upcoming IATEFL pre-conference event. It may be read as a kind of preamble, I suppose. But I wish it was more like an open invitation, an opening. And whether this is related to this particular event or not, and whether...
