TDSIG Blog
Post-CELTA professional development 1: working within time constraints
In your new career as a teacher, a key skill you’ll need to acquire – or enhance, or even develop – is proficiency in time management. One thing that teachers need to do is maintain some kind of balance between the long-term goals of the particular course, the immediate educational needs of the learners and the large amount of bureaucracy and paperwork that comes with being a teacher. Between grading exams, writing lesson plans, as well as actually teaching, you’ll often feel like it’s impossible to fit everything into the amount of time available.
Web Carnvial: Call for Speakers
We're very excited to announce the theme of our 5th Web Carnival: Race & Queerness in ELT. It's consists of a month-long Community of Practice (November 2020) discussion online and a 2-day web conference (5-6 December 2020). For the latter, we encourage you to...
Sustainable online teaching & learning Q&A
On April 19 during the IATEFL Global Get-together, four SIGs (Andy Hockley from LAMSIG, Lawrie Moore from LASIG, Sophia Mavridi from LTSIG, and Cecilia Lemos from TDSIG) came together to discuss Sustainable online teaching & learning in a panel discussion As a...
TDSIG Membership Winners Announced!
We are pleased to announce the winners of our TDSIG Membership Giveaway
Be a part of the TDSIG committee!
TDSIG Committee are a dynamic group of volunteers who are dedicated to teacher development initiatives. For evenly distributed contributions, members work collaboratively together on two project teams. We currently seek one individual to join our TDSIG Committee for...
Win a TDSIG NEW membership!
WE’D LIKE TO HELP YOU START OR RESTART YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH IATEFL AND TDSIGby paying your membership fees next year! Welcome to our first TDSIG New Member Competition, where 6 people can win a free IATEFL 1-Year Individual Membership (as long as you select us as...
My IATEFL experience by Adi Rajan
The memory of IATEFL 2019 may be fading, but TDSIG still have something to share with you! We were very happy to welcome the winner of our Michael Berman Scholarship Adi Rajan at the 53rd annual conference in Liverpool. Here are his reflections on the week. I have to...
TDSIG Member Offer: Being a Teacher Trainer course with Sheffield
Find out about an interesting teacher training course being run by The University of Sheffield and how TDSIG members can get a special offer!
Teacher development online – smart, sexy, sensible or same as it ever was?
Back to the Future is the conference theme for the upcoming Innovate ELT conference in May in Barcelona. Duncan Foord looks at the impact of the internet on Teacher Development past, present and future. By my reckoning we TEFLers have had 20 to 25 years of online...