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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

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Reforming English Pre-Service Teacher Education (Part 1)

Educational reform is best understood as a process rather than an event, requiring sustained interaction between policy, implementation and professional learning. Since 2021, I have contributed to a collaborative reform project involving the British Council and the Ministries of Higher … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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