50 Professional Development Ideas For The New Year There is never a better time than “NOW” to start working on one’s own professional development as a teacher. However, often unless by chance you find yourself in the perfect school with perfect colleagues – it is hard to get started and you’ll find yourself in a [...]
Tag archives for training
Teacher Training
It’s summer and thought I’d quickly share some Teacher Training resources I have created/organized for teachers. Please see the Teacher Training Channel for many presentation like those below (now all available in flash). Also, our full library of teacher training items. Further, a sterling list of archived articles – Must Reads! This list and video [...]
category: Prof. Development
Joking Matters
I’ve spent the weekend reading the Heidegger and a Hippo walk through those Pearly Gates, the sequel to the amazing Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar. Amazing books that combine commentary with jokes. As I’m reading, I was thinking of how jokes so well inform us teachers. So many times, jokes have framed [...]
category: on language, Prof. Development
Free TEFL Course
I’ve long had the idea that there should be a very basic, low cost, online course for TESOL. For teachers around the world who need to think again about their teaching or especially for new teachers heading abroad without much idea of how to teach English. So I did it. Here’s the introduction to the [...]
category: Prof. Development
The #1 …. (thing teachers are scared of)
** Not your ordinary, endless list – just what’s number 1. Silence I remember being a new teacher and I was so deathly scared of any silence in the classroom! I’d yammer and stammer away just to fill that void. It was a panic attack, it was a nightmare, it was worse than death. Now, [...]
category: Prof. Development
The main reason for P.D.
This morning spent some time reading and thinking about professional development for teachers. It’s an important issue – especially these days with the public demanding we root out “bad” teachers and set up systems of evaluating teachers. Most good educational systems ask teachers to (even demand by law) engage in some form of professional development. [...]
category: Prof. Development
Using Songs in the EFL Classroom
This presentation has always been a fav. of teachers. Here, I add a voiceover and summarizing some of the main points (ever so quickly). Click on the presention to listen and use the slideshow underneath to go to resources highlighting each point (by clicking on the photos). Additionally, the “song” tag gives post gives with [...]
category: methodology, Prof. Development
Keeping going …..
Today, went out for a nice bike ride with “my old man”. He’s almost 70 and he kicked my butt! Truly. I’ll admit I’m not in great shape anymore but watching my dad, “power in” the last 20 k of our ride, me lagging behind – gave me pause. The guy just doesn’t age and [...]
category: Prof. Development
New Teachers – Essential stuff on EFL 2.0
I just finished a whirlwind 6 day week of workshops on technology and language teaching – given to mostly new teachers. I had a wonderful time and the energy of the teachers always renews me, no matter how tiring the 6 hour sessions a day truly are. It got me thinking that I need to [...]
category: Prof. Development, websites
Presentations to help new teachers
I have many presentations both on our Professional Development page, on our Practice Page and on our Teacher Training page — which provide many tips and pointers regarding teaching language. Here are the main ones in video that might benefit those newer teachers starting to teach this coming school year. Get them directly by clicking [...]
category: Prof. Development, websites
Top 5 Warning Signs the Teacher isn’t yet a Teacher
I know I’ll take a lot of flak for this and I know it isn’t the standard way to go when talking about “teaching” (the standard approach being to talk about what is “good” teaching), however, during my years of helping teachers, I’ve come upon some warning signs that set off alarm bells and signal [...]
category: methodology, Prof. Development
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