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The Fair List award

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

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

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...

Brighton 2012 ‘Developing Teachers in Developing Schools’

Brighton 2012 ‘Developing Teachers in Developing Schools’

I have just arrived home from our joint event with LAMSIG on ‘Developing Teachers in Developing Schools’ in Brighton which was a great success. The event brought together ELT teachers and management to discuss themes such as: ‘CPD Going forward with your teachers’ and...

Sustainable learning

Sustainable learning

In a workshop TDSIG organises in November, I will discuss how professionals learn in their workplace, especially during the early stages of their career. You are probably given objectives or competencies but the real assessment will be whether your performance meets...

Watch IATEFL BESIG symposium live online

Watch IATEFL BESIG symposium live online

This Saturday 16 June, the IATEFL BESIG 2012 Summer Symposium is taking place in Paris, France. As in previous years, a selection of the talks will be broadcast live on the internet. The BESIG website provides a page with more information on the symposium. The...

Reports: Joint TDSIG & LTSIG conference in Istanbul, Turkey

Reports: Joint TDSIG & LTSIG conference in Istanbul, Turkey

You can now read all about our recent collaboration with the IATEFL LTSIG on the official conference website: http://iatefleventsturkey.com/ There, you'll find reports about all the main presentations and workshops. The LTSIG have also produced several videos, which I...