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Category Archives: teacher education
Incongruence in Pre-Service Teacher Education
“Teacher educators seem to agree that, to be able to support their student teachers’ learning, they themselves should be good models of the kind of teaching they are trying to promote. However, it is clear from the literature that this congruent … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, congruence, pre-ser, reflection, teacher education
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Remote Teacher Education
COVID–19 has made remote teaching a necessity for educators around the world. Levels of preparedness for this sudden transition have varied, with the result that many educators have faced the challenge of adapting rapidly and learning by doing, while continuing … Continue reading
Posted in professional development, teacher education
Tagged COVID, in-service, online, teacher education
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Teacher Confidence
I’ve worked on a few teacher development projects recently where one of the objectives has been to boost teachers’ confidence, both as speakers and teachers of English. For example, on the EfECT project in Myanmar, participants’ confidence in their English … Continue reading
Teacher evaluation
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
Workshops and Teacher Change
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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