I didn’t blog for SIG last week because I was drowning in paperwork, like most of us when we start work after the summer break. I was thinking about how hard I find admin week in September, even though my tasks from year to year are quite similar. I also often...
Today India celebrated Teachers Day, which is actually the birthday of the country’s second President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Radhakrishnan believed that “teachers should be the best minds in the country”. Among the things that India’s Prime Minister,...
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...
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...
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...
During my first session as a teacher educator I always ask my students to think back to a really good teacher from the time they themselves were pupils or students. Then, I ask them to name an essential characteristic of this ideal teacher. Usually, the majority of my...
