TDSIG Blog

TDSIG/LAKMA joint conference: “ELT in the digital age”

TDSIG and LAKMA, Lithuanian Teachers’ Association are happy to invite you to a joint conference entitled ELT IN THE DIGITAL AGE from 22 to 23 September 2011 at Vilnius Pedagogical University, Studentu St. 39, Vilnius, Lithuania. New technologies and social media...

The Unplugged Conference – A report from Barcelona.

A report of the Unplugged Conference of the 21st May by Catalina Dumitrescu. Catalina is a teacher trainer at Oxford TEFL  Barcelona ‘It’s so easy not to practise what you preach. It´s better to sit down and talk. We all have so much to say. Not a good idea to be...

TD SIG and LAKMA event at Vilnius Pedagogical University

It is going to take place at Vilnius Pedagogical University  http://www.vpu.lt/ The Conference invites ELT teachers, researchers, teacher educators and decision makers to exchange, discuss and develop their ideas on the challenges of the digital world. The conference...

Does my bum look big in this?

Five more days to go and then our Unplugged Conference is on in Barcelona. http://www.tdsig.org/unplugged/ You
can also register on the day in reception at OxfordTEFL if the online
registration doesn't work. I will now continue our discussion on Giving Feedback. On...

Moving away from ‘dogme moments’

I’ve always felt that dogme, a genuinely learner-centred approach that turns top-down orthodoxy on its head, is intrinsically linked to teacher development. It may now be true to say that teacher development must be linked intrinsically to dogme, if the latter’s...