Category Archives: professional development

Making Educational Reform Work

Posted on 3 December 2018 by Simon Borg

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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Systemic barriers to practitioner research

Posted on 30 October 2018 by Simon Borg

I’ve just attended a conference in China which focused on supporting teachers in becoming researchers. Most participants were university College English teachers and one issue I found myself reflecting on throughout the event was whether our concern was academic research … Continue reading →

Posted in professional development, research, teacher research | 7 Comments

Teacher Confidence

Posted on 26 September 2018 by Simon Borg

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 →

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Teacher evaluation

Posted on 25 January 2018 by Simon Borg

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 →

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Why do teachers assess English the way they do?

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Simon Borg

I’ve been based in Slovenia for a few years now and regularly come across examples of how English is assessed in primary schools. I don’t know with empirical certainty how typical what I see is but I’m tempted to believe … Continue reading →

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