TDSIG Blog
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...
Interview with Anthony Gaughan at IATEFL 2011
Anthony Gaughan, teacher trainer, will be one of our facilitators at the TDSIG Unplugged Conference in Barcelona on May 21. Find out more. REGISTER NOW!
Interview with Luke Meddings at IATEFL 2011
Luke Meddings will be giving a Dogme demonstration lesson, along with Scott Thornbury, at the Barcelona Unplugged Conference in May. Register now, as places are limited. Find out more
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...
Generation H?
Dogme has endured, and I now find myself going into other schools and teaching departments to share the ideas advanced in Teaching Unplugged. What’s increasingly apparent to me is that – while there is a genuine appetite for ‘opening the space’ in language classrooms...
Developing Dogme
The ‘unplugged’ TDSIG conference, which will be held in Barcelona on Saturday, 21st May, will retain the Open Space format used in last year’s pre-conference event to explore unplugged teaching and its implications for teacher development. Open Space is a particularly...
The Unplugged Conference
REGISTER NOW! We are happy to announce The Unplugged Conference, a one-day event on Sat 21 May 2011 at OxfordTEFL, Barcelona, Spain, organised along Open Space Technology lines so as to maximise participation, and with the aim of exploring and debating issues involved...