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- Initial Teacher Education in ELT
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- Improving National Levels of English – What Matters Most?
- Assessing Children’s English – Again
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Author Archives: Simon Borg
Improving the Effectiveness of Professional Development
It was great to attend the IATEFL Conference last week after a few years away. In particular, after what feels like years of working online, it was just so nice to meet people in person again and to give a … Continue reading
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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Making Assessment a More Positive Experience
I had the enjoyable experience last week of speaking to a group of school and university language teachers on the theme of how to make assessment a more positive experience for students. I built on themes I have discussed in … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, professional development
Tagged language teaching, professional development
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Planning Teacher CPD – Key Principles
This post is linked to yesterday’s webinar on key principles in planning effective CPD for teachers. A recording of the webinar will be available soon on the TeachingEnglish website, but here is the final summary slide with the 10 principles … Continue reading
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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