How Important Can A Teacher’s Meeting Be?
By Leticia Sales As with most schools in Brazil, the one where I am a pedagogical coordinator has a teacher’s meeting (or branch) meeting at the beginning of every semester, […]
How to Develop and Thrive as a Teacher without Taking CELTA or TESOL
By Ahmad Zaytoun When experience and qualifications are discussed in English language teaching, TEFL, CELTA, TESOL, and DELTA instantly spring to mind. However, the truth is that in poorer or […]
Reconsidering the Role of the Teacher
by Michael Fletcher As a zealous, overly-confident, but ultimately well-intentioned newly qualified teacher, I cherished the responsibility of attending parent’s evening, primarily due to the sense of significance it afforded […]
Book Review: Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research
Book Review: Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research Identity issues for language teachers are like layers of an onion: the outer layer is personal and professional identity for educators in […]
Dispatches of a Teacher on the Front Line
Dispatches of a Teacher on the Front Line I was doing a talk with some ELT teachers at a school in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon in 2015, in a […]
Book Review: Why NNESTs? by Erzsebet Bekes and Marcela Carrasco
Book Review: Why NNESTs? by Erzsebet Bekes and Marcela Carrasco Thanks to Silvana Richardson’s plenary talk at IATEFL 2016 conference in Birmingham, the issue of discrimination against NNESTs in ELT […]
Ana Owen: Dyslexia-Friendly Techniques for EFL Learners
EFLtalks for EFL Magazine Teachers and educators everywhere have been sharing their ideas and 10 minutes of their time to help new, future and experienced English Language professionals with their […]
Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course
Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course Why did I complete a CELTA course? Having decided to stop working as an assistant head teacher in a challenging school in […]
Cultural Capital: Experience as a Classroom Resource
Experience as a Classroom Resource Amidst all the uncertainties in the world of education, there is, what John Dewey calls, ‘one permanent frame of reference’. He describes this frame of […]
What’s Your Teaching Identity? Book Review
What’s Your Teaching Identity? Book Review Why do English teachers need to have a fully-fledged identity both as professionals and as members of the human race? How does a strong […]