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Post-CELTA professional development: The great TEFL lie
Well… here we go again with the seventh part of this series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. We’ll continue where I left off in the...
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10 books you need to read if you’re taking a four-week #TESOL course
It’s been 15 years since I took my language teaching certificate course and here I am, still going strong! Something I remember about the course is how tough it is to take in so much new information...
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8 steps to choosing your next ELT coursebook
One of the things that I’ve been involved with at work over the past few years has been course book selection. As part of the process, research was undertaken by myself and a few colleagues about how...
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Great reading strategies: ‘Anticipation Guides’ for developing comprehension
Throughout the summer I’ve been posting a series of posts looking at communicative classroom reading strategies. I’ve started each post with this little bit of blurb explaining my thinking behind the...
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Great reading strategies: ‘Story sequencing’ for developing comprehension
Over the course of this summer I’m going to be posting a long series looking at communicative classroom reading strategies. I’ll start each post with this little bit of blurb explaining my thinking...
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Are we wasting time planning our lessons?
Marek Kiczkowiak has written an excellent post on his TEFL Reflections blog about the relative importance of lesson planning in the greater scheme of things. Given that I recently wrote about...
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Secrets of those that do the TEFL hiring: Making the right impression at your...
As with my previous post on the benefits of the CELTA course, this is an ancient bit of writing that I’ve brought back from the dead for you all. I originally wrote this for another blog I contributed...
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Post-CELTA professional development: Dogme materials
Can you believe it? We’re now on part nine of this series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. As ever, we’ll continue where I left off in...
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Post-CELTA professional development: People make the class
Well… here we go again with the eighth part of this series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. We’ll continue where I left off in the...
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Free e-book: The Good Guy Greg Guide to Motivating Language Learners
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve shared two e-books with you; the first on how to present at a language teacher’s conference, the second on using games in the language classroom. These have proven...
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Free e-book: How to Present at a Language Teacher’s Conference
A few years ago I wrote a series of posts here on the blog about getting ready to make your first conference presentation as a language teacher. I’m very happy to say that these posts have now been...
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Post-CELTA professional development: The great TEFL lie
Well… here we go again with the seventh part of this series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. We’ll continue where I left off in the...
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Post-CELTA professional development: 10 techniques for dealing with your...
Welcome back, finally, to the fifth part of my series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. I’ll continue where I left off in the first four...
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Post-CELTA professional development: the 5 keys to avoiding a bad first year...
Welcome back to the fourth installment of my series of posts looking at your early career as a language teacher and how to make the most of this time. I’ll continue where I left off in the first three...
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7 great teachers share the books that inspired them
The IATEFl Teacher Development SIG is currently hosting a series of blog posts in which some of my favourite English teachers are sharing lists of the ten books that have most heavily influenced their...
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Online Learning Fallacies Part 2: Employers don’t recognize the value of...
As you may know from my last post, I have, after much deliberation, cautiously decided to enter into the world of online education. I’m not doing it blindly, though. There are many things to consider...
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Book review: ‘Punctuation..?’ by User Design
Whenever reviewing a title for an ELT website or for a journal, I regard the most important thing a book should do as delivering to its target audience. This being the first review I’ve done directly...
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Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: What can we learn from...
Last time round we looked at Glasser’s Choice theory of classroom management. This time we focus on Canter’s Assertive classroom management model… The assertive classroom management model was developed...
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Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: What can we learn from...
Having focused on the discipline-based theories of Skinner and, to a lesser extent, Jones in my last two posts, it’s definitely time for a shift of gears! What better way to do that than with...
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Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: What can we learn from the...
Those of you who’ve visited the blog recently will know that I’ve been tackling a two-pronged series, looking at both the physical and emotional aspects of effective classroom management. In my last...
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