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...
Tuesday 9th April; TD SIG day programme; Room 11b; Please find enclosed our programme. We hope you will come to our workshops and give us some feedback on the day by means of this blog. Thanks very much for your comments. 10.50 Colin MacKenzie: 59 seconds to...
I have just arrived home from our joint event with LAMSIG on ‘Developing Teachers in Developing Schools’ in Brighton which was a great success. The event brought together ELT teachers and management to discuss themes such as: ‘CPD Going forward with your teachers’ and...
