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Category Archives: professional development
Teacher Appraisal
I hope you have all been keeping safe. A couple of years ago I was commissioned by the British Council to write a literature review on teacher evaluation in ELT. This was published in 2018 and is available here. Late … Continue reading
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Education in Focus Podcast Series
One of the projects I recently completed (with my colleague Rob Lewis) was a podcast series about key educational issues. The podcasts (which were commissioned by the British Council) focus on South Asia, but, as you will see from the … Continue reading
Designing In-Service Workshops
I had the opportunity recently to do a workshop on grammar teaching with a group of around 90 mostly secondary school EFL teachers in Slovenia. This was a good opportunity for me to revisit some of my workshop design principles … Continue reading
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Perspectives on Teacher Research
In recent weeks I’ve run workshops on teacher research in two quite different university contexts. It was interesting to see how participants in these two contexts responded to the idea that teachers can, as a valid form of professional development, … Continue reading
Making Educational Reform Work
One of the projects I am currently working is called English for Universities (EfU). This has been running for four years in Ukraine, with a dual focus on improving the quality of ESP teaching in universities and developing the English-medium … Continue reading
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