Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash In this post, our committee member Maria de la Caridad Smith Batson shares insights from a teacher development programme she coordinated. Attaining teaching excellence is a long journey, and unfortunately, most of the time, we do not...
Here, our committee member Jake Kimble offers his review of Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research, edited by Richard Smith, Seden Eraldemir Tuyan, Mariana Serra and Erzsébet Ágnes Békés Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research Published earlier this year, Stories...
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...
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 Homework… now there’s a tricky subject...
We’re very excited to announce the theme of our 5th Web Carnival: Race & Queerness in ELT. It’s consists of a month-long Community of Practice (November 2020) discussion online and a 2-day web conference (5-6 December 2020). For the latter, we...
Overview A four day workshop titled Introduction to Exploratory Action Research (EAR) was organised by the Department of ELT, Gauhati University from 18 to 21 September, 2017. The workshop, led by Dr Richard Smith of Warwick University, UK, and Dr Amol Padwad of...
