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Category Archives: teacher education
New Research on In-Service Teacher Educators
Given the important role that in-service teacher educators play in education systems worldwide, the volume of research that studies their work remains surprisingly scarce. One reason for this is that the role of the in-service teacher educator itself is not … Continue reading
Posted in professional development, research, teacher education
Tagged CPD, in-service training, Nepal, research, trainer development
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Initial Teacher Education in ELT
Back in May I wrote about what matters most when education systems are trying to improve levels of English among learners. I concluded that the qualiity of initial teacher education is vital. Studies of high-performing education systems often refer to … Continue reading
Posted in educational reform, pre-service teacher education, teacher education
Tagged Pre-service teacher education; initial teacher education; ELT; teacher preparation; educational reform
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What do ELT Consultants Actually Do?
Several months have passed since my last blog, where I promised to follow up the discussion of what matters most in rasing national standards of English by discussing some features of effective pre-service teacher education programmes. I will post that … Continue reading
Posted in professional development, research, teacher education, teacher research
Tagged CPD, ELT consultancy, Initial Teacher Education, Professional Inquiry, Teacher Professional Development
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Improving National Levels of English – What Matters Most?
Two recent projects I have worked on had the common goal of trying to understand at a national level the status of English learning and the factors that influence it. The two countries involved were Iraq and India – very … Continue reading
Posted in research, teacher education
Tagged educational reform, English education, India, Iraq, pre-service teacher education
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Assessing Children’s English – Again
If I asked teachers to ‘agree or disagree’ with the following statements, what would most say?: ‘The purpose of assessment is to allow students to demonstrate what they know’.‘One function of assessment is to increase student motivation to learn’.‘Assessment should … Continue reading
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Tagged assessing children, assessment literacy, English assessment, English language teaching, professional development, teaching children
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