We’re very pleased to introduce you to our next featured speaker from at the TDSIG Day at IATEFL (Monday, April the 13th incase you haven’t already marked your calendars!). Phil lives in Istanbul and works for Oxford University Press as a Teacher Trainer. He has...
This week our featured writer is Conrad Heyns, who shares some very elegant thoughts on peer observation, feedback and the complex question of quality assurance. Happy reading! Peer Observations Conrad Heyns I have been a teacher and a teacher trainer for over 30...
Welcome to our new series of blog posts! This time we’ll be featuring the speakers who will be presenting as part of the TD SIG Day on Day 3 of IATEFL, Monday the 13th of April. Our first featured speaker is Karen Waterston. Karen has been teaching for 25 years...
We here at the TDSIG are slowly recovering from a wild and wonderful week in Harrogate at the annual IATEFL conference. So many great sessions, so much food for thought and our own development. For those of you unlucky enough to miss Mojce Belak’s excellent...
With the year slowly drawing to a close, it’s time to look ahead; and what better to look forward to than the IATEFL 2014 Conference? The conference will be held in Harrogate, UK, and will run from 2-5 April – but the day before the “official”...
Schools are never neutral sites or free spaces. They are always shaped by the political structures around them. Freire (1996) felt that education could create a world of possibilities for students. We need to cultivate young people’s knowledge of where to begin to...
