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- Making Assessment a More Positive Experience
- Planning Teacher CPD – Key Principles
- Initial Teacher Education in ELT
- What do ELT Consultants Actually Do?
- Improving National Levels of English – What Matters Most?
- Assessing Children’s English – Again
- COVID and Language Teacher Education: New Research
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- Remote Teacher Education
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Category Archives: professional development
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
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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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
Posted in professional development, teacher education
Tagged assessing children, assessment literacy, English assessment, English language teaching, professional development, teaching children
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COVID and Language Teacher Education: New Research
Discussions of the impact of COVID–19 on education are understandably often framed in negative terms; the pandemic has, after all, had a massive disruptive impact on schooling globally. Teacher education – both initial teacher preparation and continuing professional development – … Continue reading
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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