0 Professional Development January 8, 2019 The Leader in the Mirror My first webinar of 2019 will be a webinar for the TESOL Affiliate Network on January 11th. I’m thrilled to have an opportunity to talk about what teachers want from their teacher associations. Here’s... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
1 Professional Development September 3, 2018 Engaging non-majors with relevant resources (by Marc Helgesen) Most of us have probably been there: a required class of non-English majors. People whose major has no particular need for English. Students who have no particular love of English. In one class, we... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
2 Professional Development November 10, 2016 Teachers: How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking (by David F. Goldberg) Truth be told, even after being a teacher for over 16 years now and being the center of attention while talking to numerous, large groups of students at the front of the class on... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
2 Professional Development February 22, 2015 Starting a YouTube Channel (by Mark Kulek) Barbara: Why did you decide to start a YouTube channel? Mark: I started my YouTube channel so that my students could practice English at home. I also wanted my students’s parents to see what... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
4 Professional Development January 31, 2015 Experimental Practice: My personal Journey (by Jennie Wright) There is a brilliant quote about professional development which I always carry with me from Scrivener’s book Learning Teaching: “Twenty years’ experience can become no more than two years’ experience repeated ten times over” (1994,... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
2 Professional Development January 30, 2015 Traveling the experimental practice road (by Christina Rebuffet-Broadus) There comes a point in every TEFL teacher’s life when we reach a fork in the road. We begin asking ourselves questions: Should I start looking for ‘a real job’? Where is my career... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
11 Professional Development December 11, 2014 Getting Unstuck…10 Experiments (by Theodora Papapanagiotou) We have all been there! Sometimes you’re swamped with work, with personal problems and you just can’t function. As a teacher, as a person, you just go through a very non-creative phase and you... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
1 Professional Development September 4, 2014 What’s your future perfect? (by Jen Brummer) Hi, everyone. Let’s do a quick grammar activity before you begin reading my blog post. Please answer the questions below. I will provide an example of each for you. 1) Give an example of... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
11 Professional Development / Reflection June 12, 2014 The Fallacy of Fun by Leonie Overbeek Tackling this subject I almost feel like an atheist walking into a church and shouting ‘God is dead’. I am met with the same amount of horror and resistance. Some of the comments made... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Personal Learning Network / Professional Development / Reflection / Uncategorized February 16, 2014 Why I love Teachers 2014 A few years ago I wrote a simple little post about the reasons I love Teachers. Since then, I’ve had a chance to work with some amazing Teachers through the International Teacher Development Institute.... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket