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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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Hosts Christian and James from the IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group talk about issues within teacher development in various contexts.

    Episode 49 - Early Career Teachers with Jo Gakonga

    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.

    • 34 min
    Episode 48 - Interview with Sandy Millin

    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/

    • 35 min
    Episode 47 - TD & Tech - Interviews with Vicky Saumell & David Read

    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.

    • 33 min
    Episode 46 - Bottom up Teacher Development with Claire Steele and Sarah Smith

    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)

    • 27 min
    Episode 45 - Web Carnival 2023 Preview

    Episode 45 - Web Carnival 2023 Preview

    Join us as we preview this weekend’s annual TDSIG online conference, the Web Carnival. In this episode, James interviews two of our plenary speakers, Michelle Worgan and Cesar Correa Larroca, to find out more about their talks.Register for the Web Carnival at tdsig.org/web-carnivalMichelle and Eloise’s The Teaching Lab: facebook.com/groups/eltteachinglab 

    • 24 min
    Episode 44 - Teacher Development for Young Learner Teachers

    Episode 44 - Teacher Development for Young Learner Teachers

    Joining Christian in the latest episode of Developod is David Valente, primary English teacher educator and researcher. They take a look at how the future of teacher development will affect young learner teachers.USEFUL LINKS: CEPELL resources: https://icepell.eu/ ICEKit materials: https://icepell.eu/index.php/icekits/Reading for in-depth learning (Ridl) framework: https://site.nord.no/ellil/reading-for-in-depth-learning/Materials from the  IATEFL YLTSIG website:https://issuu.com/iatefl/docs/teylt_worldwide_issue_1__2020_special_appendixELLRA website: https://ellra.org/

    • 32 min

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