TD or TTED: What is the difference?

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Every year at the IATEFL Conference, we are asked the same question: “What is the difference between the TD (Teacher Development) and TTEd (Teacher Training & Education) SIGs (Special Interest Groups). It is not a surprise that...

TDSIG @ IATEFL 2016

TDSIG tweets from IATEFL! Thanks to the various tweeting ability of the TDSIG and those that attended our events on PCE and SIG days, we have a lovely social narrative of the time in Birmingham. Special thanks to Tyson for pulling these tweetings out of the Twitter...

SIG Day speakers – Emma Meade-Flynn

And so the IATEFL conference proper is almost upon us! Today is the day of the Pre-Conference Events, and we at TDSIG are getting ready for our day at the University of Birmingham, The Teacher’s Voice. Today is also the day for publishing the last blog post we...

SIG Day speakers – Marina Bendtsen

Here’s our second SIG Day speaker post of the week. This time we hear from Marina Bendtsen, whose session on 13 April is Exploring the insider perspective – teachers’ evolving views of teacher learning. Marina’s blog post I have always been driven by a...

SIG Day speakers – Sally Janssen

It’s been a while since the last post introducing one of our SIG Day speakers, but we hope the wait has been worth it as we introduce three more this week in the lead up to the 50th IATEFL conference in Birmingham. Here is Sally Janssen, outlining some of the...