TDSIG Blog
Review: Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research
Here, our committee member Jake Kimble offers his review of Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research, edited by Richard Smith, Seden Eraldemir Tuyan, Mariana Serra and Erzsébet Ágnes Békés Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research Published earlier this year, Stories...
Thinking Skills for a Sustainable Future – Marcela Villan
Photo by Prado on Unsplash Marcela Villan shares her thoughts on the Sustainable Development Goals and cultivating connections in the classroom. If you are a teacher or you’ve ever stood in front of a classroom, planned a project, or simply watched the news...
From Chalkboards to Chatbots: Essential Tech Tools for Today’s English Classroom – Seda Yaman
Image from Canva. This month's blog is brought to you by our Web Carnival speaker Seda Yaman. Imagine a classroom where your students practice English by chatting with historical figures, create recipes by mixing cuisines from across the globe, or play vocabulary...
CPD portfolios: Keeping it simple
Photo by Nodir Khalilov on Unsplash This month’s blog post is brought to you by our sponsors, NILE In this post, Martyn Clarke, MA Programme Leader at NILE, describes how a simplified CPD Portfolio became an effective tool for over 800 Uzbek teachers to enhance their...
Bringing 21st-Century Skills into ESL Classrooms and Training – Linda D’Argenio on behalf of Bridge Education Group
This month’s blog post is brought to you by our sponsors, Bridge Education Group 21st-century skills is an umbrella term that refers to a set of competencies deemed essential in today’s educational and professional landscape. They include learning skills (critical...
TD or TTED: What is the difference?
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Every year at the IATEFL Conference, we are asked the same question: “What is the difference between the TD (Teacher Development) and TTEd (Teacher Training & Education) SIGs (Special Interest Groups). It is not a surprise that...
Lean on me: stories of coaching, mentoring and teacher resilience – Divya Madhavan
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash In our previous post, Divya Madhavan shared her thoughts on coaching and mentoring in ELT. Here, she shares stories of inspiring educators from around the globe. I am going to talk about how we show up for each other by sharing the...
Showing Up for Teachers: Coaching and Mentoring – Divya Madhavan
Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Here we present the first part of Divya Madhavan’s plenary speech from IATEFL 2023 in Harrogate. We ELT teachers lean on each other an awful lot. It is essentially how we grow as teachers. There are more traditional disciplines in...
How Reflective Teaching Fuels Continuous Professional Development – Sina Daneshvar
Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash As an ELT practitioner with over 18 years of experience, I have experienced days when I walked out of the classroom feeling that I had performed poorly or when I thought to myself, I could have taught that grammar part differently....