Category Archives: professional development

Teacher evaluation

Posted on 25 January, 2018 by Simon Borg

Two new reports  on teacher evaluation were launched this week. The first is a global literature review of teacher evaluation, which examines different ways of evaluating teachers and makes recommendations for teacher evaluation in  ELT.  One interesting insight from this … Continue reading →

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Why do teachers assess English the way they do?

Posted on 21 November, 2017 by Simon Borg

I’ve been based in Slovenia for a few years now and regularly come across examples of how English is assessed in primary schools. I don’t know with empirical certainty how typical what I see is but I’m tempted to believe … Continue reading →

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Teachers, Research and Methodology Textbooks

Posted on 25 April, 2017 by Simon Borg

I’ve just returned from the ELTRIA conference at the University of Barcelona on the theme of bridging the gap between research and practice. Scott Thornbury spoke there about an interesting line of inquiry he has initiated looking into how methodology … Continue reading →

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Long live grammar teaching (or ‘It ain’t over till the fat lady sings’)

Posted on 19 October, 2016 by Simon Borg

In the last 20 years, repeated messages in the literature about communicative and task-based approaches, and the uptake of these approaches in contemporary coursebooks, may have created the impression that a ‘modern’ approach to grammar teaching is now a universal … Continue reading →

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Workshops and Teacher Change

Posted on 5 July, 2016 by Simon Borg

Recently I observed a training workshop that teachers of English were attending as part of a teacher development project they were on. The theme of the workshop was ‘Using Games’ and the teachers assumed the role of learners and experienced … Continue reading →

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