Sponge Chats - Perspectives on TBLT teacher education with Lara Bryfonski

I have the great pleasure to speak with TBLT researcher and teacher educator Lara Bryfonski. We went into detail about teacher education considerations, working with individual differences, TBLT and young learners, and many other cool stuff. 00:00 Introduction 03:00 Sponge Chats 04:00 Who is Lara? 08:00 How and why did Lara move into research? 11:00 Why should teachers be aware of TBLT? 14:30 How do we bring TBLT to teachers? 17:45 Assessment 20:00 TBLT or tblt? 24:00 Individual teacher differences 28:00 TBLT observation schemes 34:00 The impact of courses on teachers' implementation of TBLT 37:00 Tasks and young learners 45:00 A return to assessment 48:00 Lara's recent projects! 55:00 Lara's piece of advice for TBLT teacher educators 59:00 Book recommendations (and Lara's upcoming book!)