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- Increasing Teacher Engagement in Online Professional Development Groups
- Improving the Effectiveness of Professional Development
- New Research on In-Service Teacher Educators
- Making Assessment a More Positive Experience
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Category Archives: professional development
Reforming English Pre-Service Teacher Education (Part 3)
The previous two blogs have drawn on my ongoing work in Iraq. The first described how national research into English education led to revised pre-service curricula, followed by the piloting and evaluation of these in selected universities across Iraq. The … Continue reading
Reforming English Pre-Service Teacher Education (Part 2)
In my previous post, I described how a large-scale review of English language teaching in Iraq led to curriculum reform in Colleges of Education and Basic Education across the country. By 2025, updated curricula had been piloted and early evaluations … Continue reading
Posted in educational reform, pre-service teacher education, professional development
Tagged educational reform, English language teaching, pre-service teacher education, professional development
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International Handbook of Research on Teachers’ Beliefs (2nd Edition)
Research on teachers’ beliefs remains one of the most active areas of educational inquiry. Across a wide range of subjects and educational settings, researchers continue to explore what teachers believe about teaching, learning, assessment, motivation, technology and curriculum. This sustained … Continue reading
Posted in professional development, research, teacher cognition, teacher education
Tagged ELT, teacher beliefs, teacher cognition
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Increasing Teacher Engagement in Online Professional Development Groups
One of my recent projects involved the evaluation of a Facebook group for English language teachers. The use of Facebook groups to support teacher development has been studied (see, for example, the open access paper by Nelimarkka et al., 2021) … Continue reading
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