Description
We all have stories about our teacher development. What’s in these stories shapes our teaching and affects those around us. IATEFL TDSIG invite you to attend its inaugural Web Carnival on “Stories of Teacher Development” on Saturday, January 30, 2016. During it, selected speakers from our community will share their stories by focusing on:
- a turning point that led to a realisation about their teaching
- a key question that they faced in this realisation
- how these turned into action
While sessions are short, everyone will have opportunities to interact, share, and reflect on these points. In addition, you can also share your stories through posts on our website or yours. If you’d like to participate in this way first, please submit your story here. We’ll either select to be on the TDSIG website or link to it.
Schedule
Programme & RECORDINGS
To view the full online programme, please click here: http://bit.ly/tdsig-webcarnival. You will not be required to preregister. If you want to share a printable poster in your staff room (that isn’t so ink-heavy), download it here.
Watching the recordings here:
A – Lizzie Pinard (recording)
B – Thiago Veigga (recording)
C – Anna Bartosik (recording)
D – Maha Hassan (recording)
Location
We will be using the IATEFL Adobe room. Click this link and enter as guest:
iatefl.adobeconnect.com/tdsigwebinars/
#tdsigcarnival tweets!
What do you have to say about a key event in your teacher development? Join the #tdsigcarnival convo below!
@seburnt Joining Twitter opened up a whole world of teaching to me and led to many other opportuńities #tdsigcarnival
— Sandy Millin (@sandymillin) January 4, 2016
@seburnt The moment I realised there isn’t a singular right/correct way to teach #tdsigcarnival #elt
— Anthony Ash (@Ashowski) January 5, 2016
@seburnt #tdsigcarnival doing the DELTA, in particular the assessed lesson observations. Almost completely broke me pic.twitter.com/q7r2mVXXbw
— Mike Harrison (@harrisonmike) January 4, 2016
#TDSIGcarnival @tdsig @iatefl Key point in my professional development: blogging about my ELT experience ??
— Raquel Gonzaga (@Rach_Gonzaga) January 6, 2016
teaching 6+ years in a country (TH) with very little PD/dev support forced me 2b extra self-sufficient w/ CPD & reflectn etc #tdsigcarnival
— Matthew Noble (@tesolmatthew) January 7, 2016
Being restless (bad) early on meant exposed to many schools & contexts (good!) ->helped dev T skills (such as they were/are!) #tdsigcarnival
— Matthew Noble (@tesolmatthew) January 7, 2016
Becoming a creator rather than just consumer of trainings was shift for my teaching #tdsigcarnival
— Shaeley Santiago (@HSeslteacher) January 7, 2016
#tdsigcarnival @tdsig Joining national teacher association. Helped me see ELT as a profession (not just temporary source of income).
— Vedrana Vojković (@Ven_VVE) January 7, 2016
1. Attending my first ELT conference completely changed my perspective on my profession. #tdsigcarnival
— Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) January 7, 2016
2. Interacting with a global ELT blogging community showed me diffs between all Ting context, so I could learn from them. #tdsigcarnival
— Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) January 7, 2016
3. Involving myself in associations and groups #tesltoronto #iatefl #tleap #eapchat provided new platforms for collaboration. #tdsigcarnival
— Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) January 7, 2016
Discovering & exploring the almost untapped world of technology in the ESL/ELT classroom changed my perspective on teaching #tdsigcarnival
— Anna Bartosik (@ambartosik) January 7, 2016
Never thought my teenagers cared about their English classes till term ended and they made me a #BookofHappiness ? pic.twitter.com/QJns0IS7Qh
— Parisa Nafissi (@ParisaNafissi) November 24, 2015
“My experience of Teacherpreneurship as the Way to Stay Competitive on TEFL Market” via Marina Kladova #tdsigcarnival
— Tyson Seburn (@seburnt) January 28, 2016
#tdsigcarnival When I started using fb and twitter to learn with other teachers opened up new opportunities and led to more ideas
— vicky papageorgiou (@vpapage) January 28, 2016
#tdsigcarnival After the entire group (my first ever adult group) failed their end-of-course grammar test, I knew I’d have to part with PPP.
— Olya Sergeeva (@olyaelt) January 28, 2016
@seburnt DETLA Module 2 helped create #reflectiveteacher habits, #elt #community virtual & face2face have kept it going #tdsigcarnival
— Kendra Peterson (@kendraELT) January 29, 2016
#tdsigcarnival It all fell into place when I just started being myself.
— Patrice Palmer, M.Ed (@growthmindset2) January 29, 2016
A couple member blog posts
We’ve collected a couple blog posts related to our #tdsigcarnival topic!
From Rob Howard: Look Who’s EFLTalking!
From Laxmi Prasad Ojha : Thrown away in the crowd: Reflection on my first teaching job
From Shiny Christy : Education 3.0 colonization and the theory of designing maximal neuron stimulated curriculum.