Our SIG Day speakers – David Byrne and Mark Heffernan

Time to introduce our second set of speakers for our TDSIG Day – David Byrne and Mark Heffernan. They are the pair behind Textploitationtefl, having previously given talks at IATEFL on the use of texts and getting the most out of minimal resources, but this time...

IATEFL SIG Day Countdown 2017

It’s getting closer – the IATEFL Annual Conference takes place next month with Pre Conference Events on Monday 3 April and the conference proper running from Tuesday 4 April to Friday 7 April. With hundreds of talks, workshops and other sessions to see, it can...

Find the actor in you: An interview with Peter Dyer

The following interview took place on 20 March 2012, in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. Barbara: Yesterday you were the facilitator for our Teacher Development SIG Day at the Glasgow IATEFL conference, which was very successful. Can you tell us something...

Find the actor in you!

On the 19th March Peter Dyer was the facilitator for our Teacher Development SIG Day at the Glasgow IATEFL conference, which was very successful. In the next Newsletter you will find an interview I had with him. Here’s a taster: Peter: The acting side of the workshop...

Don’t end your text message with xxx

Rita, a teacher from Amsterdam was appalled when a pupil showed her her private holiday snapshots taken from Facebook during a traineeship in Curacao. ‘ I didn’t wear anything indecent and didn’t throw up or anything, but it was very shocking.’ Fortunately, the same...