Photo by Laurenz Kleinheider on Unsplash In this month’s blog, committee member Jake Kimball reflects on self-development. Change Starts With Self-Awareness One of my favorite ways to think about teacher development is through art, so whenever I have the chance, I...
Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash This month committee member Helen Slee shares their reflections on some very impactful IATEFL conference sessions. Time has flown since the April 2026 IATEFL conference, and some of us are still percolating our learning moments. Some...
Photo by Austin on Unsplash In this post, our committee member Elizabeth S. Coleman shares how teaching pre-service educators reignited her passion for ELT. After years of conducting CPD and training with established teachers in university preparatory programmes and...
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...
Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash In this post Anna Loseva considers what we mean by trying to make PD stick. When you hear or read discussions about sustainable professional development (SPD), what comes to mind? What is often meant is long-term, contextualized...
