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DEVELOPOD - The IATEFL TDSIG Podcast IATEFL TDSIG
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Hosts Christian and James from the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group talk about issues within teacher development in various contexts.
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Developod Episode 51 - IATEFL Conference 2024
Joining Helen to talk about the IATEFL Conference 2024 before, during, and after the week-long event in Brighton are Sandy Millan, TDSIG Joint co-ordinator James Taylor, past TDSIG committee member Fiona Mauchline, and the two 2024 TDSIG scholarship winners: Didar Moldazhanov, winner of the Early Career Teacher Scholarship, and Maryam Mirshahnasab, winner of the Michael Berman Scholarship.Hear all these different perspectives on the conference, the experiences they've had, and what they have taken away, and in some cases, applied in their classrooms right away.Consider applying for an IATEFL TDSIG scholarship for the 2025 conference in Edinburgh before the June 19th deadline.Tell us about your IATEFL Brighton 2024 Conference perspective, experience, and/or takeaways on our social media channels, we'd love to hear from you!
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Developod 50 - 50th Episode Celebration
Join us for a special celebration of 50 episodes of Developod! In this episode, we look back on our recent future of teacher development episodes, introduce our new host Helen Slee and say farewell to the man who's been there since day one, Christian Tiplady. James quizzes them on their knowledge about podcasts, and Helen interviews Christian about his time with TDSIG.
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Episode 49 - Early Career Teachers with Jo Gakonga
Joining Christian on this episode is Jo Gakonga, a Teacher educator and online course creator, to discuss her interest in early career teachers. This episode is the final part of our Future of Teacher Development strand.Jo has worked in ELT for over 30 years in a range of countries and contexts including Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Kenya and Switzerland. She's a CELTA trainer, assessor and Joint Chief Assessor, she co-authored IELTS Foundation (Macmillan). and runs ELT-Training.com, which has a range of courses for English language teachers. She also recently completed a PhD on mentoring.
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Episode 48 - Interview with Sandy Millin
In this episode, Christian talks with Sandy Millin about the future of Teacher Development from her perspective, especially focusing on the power of blogs and social media. Read Sandy Millin's Blog here: https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/British Council Webinar with Sandy Millin: Professional development through blogs and blogging: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teachers/sandy-millin-professional-development-through-blogs-and Follow Sandy on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandymillin/
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Episode 47 - TD & Tech - Interviews with Vicky Saumell & David Read
Joining us for episode 47 are Vicky Saumell & David Read. They help us to continue our investigation into the future of teacher development from a technology point of view.
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Episode 46 - Bottom up Teacher Development with Claire Steele and Sarah Smith
Joining Christian in this latest episode of Developod are Claire Steele and Sarah Smith, Directors of Eltonix. They discuss the future of teacher development with a focus on 'bottom-up' teacher development, and in particular 'classroom-based inquiry' (or 'action research'), which they argue is both more teacher-centred and student-centred than most current forms of prescriptive professional development led by language school institutions.Information about Eltonix:Website: https://eltonix.com/Facebook Group: eltonix connects (a fund, friendly and international TD community)Previous related Developod episodes:Episode 36 Classroom-Based InquiryEpisode 18 Action ResearchEpisode 8 Creating a Culture of Teacher Development (with Silvana Richardson)