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Antonia Clare’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Antonia Clare’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Antonia Clare is a teacher trainer, international conference speaker and award-winning materials writer. Her special interests include the use of video and new technologies in ELT, creativity and the psychology of language learning.  She has taught and trained in many...

Dimitris Primalis’ Top 10 Teaching Books

Dimitris Primalis’ Top 10 Teaching Books

Dimitris Primalis is an EFL teacher based in Greece. He has a regular column in the BELTA Bulletin and his articles and posts have been published, among others, in the IATEFL Voices, ELT News and Microsoft Partners in Learning Blog. He is particularly interested in...

Anna Musielak’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Anna Musielak’s Top 10 Teaching Books

The TDSIG Team would like to wish you all a wonderful weekend, with this wonderful post from Anna Musielak. Anna is a Polish teacher and teacher trainer with a Ph.D. from Silesian University. She has worked at the military unit, at college, teaching British Literature...

Anthony Gaughan’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Anthony Gaughan’s Top 10 Teaching Books

We're so excited to publish this post from Anthony Gaughan. For those of you who don't know him, Anthony is a teacher trainer and English teacher based in Berlin, Germany.  He has been TDSIG social media coordinator and SIG coordinator, and occasionally blogs...

Tyson Seburn’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Tyson Seburn’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Our second contributor in this series is Tyson Seburn. Tyson is an academic co-ordinator at the University of Toronto, where he specialises in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Tyson is passionate about professional development for teachers, founded #EAPChat and...

Malu Sciamarelli’s Top 10 Teaching Books

Malu Sciamarelli’s Top 10 Teaching Books

This is the first of a series of guest posts the TDSIG will be publishing, and I was inspired by the list of top 10 books that did the rounds on social media recently, so I've invited a few people to share their top 10 teaching books, and invite any of you reading...

Admin Week!

Admin Week!

I didn’t blog for SIG last week because I was drowning in paperwork, like most of us when we start work after the summer break. I was thinking about how hard I find admin week in September, even though my tasks from year to year are quite similar. I also often...

Happy Teachers’ Day India!

Happy Teachers’ Day India!

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, Narendra...

A Teaching Moment in Time 2014

A Teaching Moment in Time 2014

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...