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Post-CELTA Professional Development 11: 4 Great Listening Energizers
Adam Simpson with 4 tips on energising your classes with quick listening activities
Post-CELTA Professional Development 10: 9 Golden Rules for Using Games in the Language Classroom
Time for another post in our series to help you crack on with professional development after you've completed your initial teacher training. Here Adam Simpson looks at a few useful things to consider when using games in the language classroom. I've long been an...
Post-CELTA Professional Development 9: 5 steps to using learner self-assessment in the classroom
Adam Simpson guides us in using learner self-assessment in the classroom
Post-CELTA Professional Development 8: 5 Great Writing Warm Ups
5 great ways to get your students writing, courtesy of Adam Simpson’s guide on developing yourself after completing your teacher training
Post-CELTA Professional Development 7: 4 reasons not to give our language learners any homework
Adam Simpson is back with the next post in our series that focuses on how to maintain your professional development after you've qualified to teach EFL. Here he shares his reasons for a drastic change to the accepted norm of teaching: not giving your...
Post-CELTA Professional Development 6: 6 great techniques for getting students to embrace their homework
We continue Adam Simpson’s series of posts on areas for professional development for after you’ve completed your CELTA. This time he takes a look at the tricky topic of getting students to get on with their homework
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With a new year comes new opportunity! TDSIG needs an enthusiastic social media innovator who will continue existing and create new ways to develop our voice on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram by fostering relationships with our online community. Here’s a brief...
Post-CELTA professional development 5: 10 techniques for dealing with your first observed lesson
There are several steps we can take to make sure that our first observations turn out well regardless of the particular situation or the person observing. With this in mind, here are my tips on getting through your first observed lesson.
Post CELTA professional development 4: the 5 keys to avoiding a bad first year as a teacher
Adam Simpson is back with his series on issues and experiences for the post-CELTA teacher... Welcome back to the fourth installment of my series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. I’ll continue where I...