Showing Up for Teachers: Coaching and Mentoring – Divya Madhavan

Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Here we present the first part of Divya Madhavan’s plenary speech from IATEFL 2023 in Harrogate.  We ELT teachers lean on each other an awful lot. It is essentially how we grow as teachers. There are more traditional disciplines in...

Sustainable online teaching & learning Q&A

On April 19 during the IATEFL Global Get-together, four SIGs (Andy Hockley from LAMSIG, Lawrie Moore from LASIG, Sophia Mavridi from LTSIG, and Cecilia Lemos from TDSIG) came together to discuss Sustainable online teaching & learning in a panel discussion As a...

The IATEFL Experience Part One – By Gerhard Erasmus

The IATEFL experience through the eyes of our Scholarship winner One of the ways TDSIG gets involved with IATEFL is through our scholarship; every year we invite people to apply for the Michael Berman Scholarship, with the winner getting the chance to attend the...

TDSIG at IATEFL 2018

Two weeks is a long time in ELT. Just a fortnight ago, the TDSIG committee were gearing up to get ready for the IATEFL Annual Conference in Brighton – and what a busy event it was! TDSIG teamed up with the Leadership and Management Special Interest Group (LAMSIG) for...