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
Professional Development October 30, 2011 The Swing of the Pendulum (by Márcia Lima) Having been in the TEFL field for a number of years now, I’ve witnessed the ELT pendulum swing a number of times (back and forth and sideways) when talking about methods and approaches. Throughout... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know May 28, 2011 Lexical Chunks for Kids (by Mark Kulek) Mark left a comment on a recent post of mine (How Context Matters) that intrigued me, about using lexical chunks with his young learners. I asked him to expand on his comment in a guest... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know May 18, 2011 How Context Matters What are these? How are they used? Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know February 21, 2010 Do It Your Way (by Janet Bianchini) A very good friend, Ehrhard, a retired teacher from the former GDR, recently wrote a letter to me, which made me truly reflect. He told me that he was so happy that he had... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket