TDSIG Blog
Who do you talk to about your teaching?
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 colleagues" came first...
Improvisation – Where teachers fear to tread
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 workshop...
Why Critical Pedagogy?
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 you will...
Electronic Village Online – Crafting the ePerfect eTextbook
Electronic Village online, the virtual wing of TESOL, is currently running a 5-week online collaborative course on eCourseware design, and TDSIG is proud to be listed as one of its sponsors. Follow this link to see more:...
IATEFL 2014 Pre-Conference Event
With the year slowly drawing to a close, it's time to look ahead; and what better to look forward to than the IATEFL 2014 Conference? The conference will be held in Harrogate, UK, and will run from 2-5 April - but the day before the "official" start of the conference,...
Making a difference
Schools are never neutral sites or free spaces. They are always shaped by the political structures around them. Freire (1996) felt that education could create a world of possibilities for students. We need to cultivate young people’s knowledge of where to begin to...
The Fair List award
TDSIG received The Fair List award for last year's Brighton event. The Fair List is an annual award that celebrates excellence of gender balance at ELT events in the UK. Check out their website: http://thefairlist.org/ Here you see a photo of Anthony and Mojca from...
Finding your own voice
By the time you enter teacher education, you have spent approximately 13,000 hours observing teachers. The fact that you are overfamiliar with the teaching profession doesn't mean that you will easily find your own voice as a beginning teacher. We all know what it...
IATEFL Liverpool
Tuesday 9th April; TD SIG day programme; Room 11b; Please find enclosed our programme. We hope you will come to our workshops and give us some feedback on the day by means of this blog. Thanks very much for your comments. 10.50 Colin MacKenzie: 59 seconds to...