DEVELOPOD - The IATEFL TDSIG Podcast

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...

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/web...

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.

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 devel...

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-carnival Michelle and Eloise’s The Teaching Lab: facebook.com/groups/eltteachinglab  

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/r...

In the latest episode of Developod, James is joined by Colm Downes to discuss how the climate crisis should be a central part of our teacher development. About Colm: ELT Assessment and Teacher Education, ESP, EAP, CLIL, Project Management & Climate Change Education Specialist. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia - Colm is currently working on a range of projects as a freelance consultant for a variety...

The third in the series on 'The Future of Teacher Development in ELT', this episode hears from Silvana Richardson.

In episode 41 of Developod, James is joined by Cecilia Lemos and they discuss their new roles as coordinators of TDSIG. We also hear from Taiza Lombardi, the winner of this year's Michael Berman Scholarship, about her experiences at this year's IATEFL Conference in Harrogate. To apply for our scholarships in 2023, go to https:// tdsig.org/scholarship/ . The deadline is 21st of June.

The second in the series on 'The Future of Teacher Development in ELT', this episode hears from Richard Chinn and Danny Norrington-Davies, two teacher trainers and developers who have recently published a cutting edge book called ' Working with Emergent Language' .

This episode kickstarts a series of podcasts on The Future of Teacher Development in ELT. The interview is with Gabriel Garcia Maggioli, or "Gabo", the current President of IATEFL. 

Helen, the winner of the Michael Berman scholarship 2022, tells us all about their take-aways from the IATEFL conference in Belfast and offers useful tips for those going to a conference for the first time. https://tdsig.org/scholarship/ https://www.iatefl.org/resources

Join Christian, Tania and James as they discuss the Web Carnival that took place earlier this year. Find out more about the theme, critical pedagogy, and three of the talks from the event. Antoine Marcq: https://youtu.be/AqGLYCl0akc Linda Ruas: https://youtu.be/Jy2VYvHY9F4 Panel discussion: https://youtu.be/VjThS2H1Y1M Watch all the talks from the conference here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list...

Christian talks to Petra and Eliška, two primary school teachers of English in the Czech Republic.  Their classroom-based inquiry projects centre around the topics of differentiation and motivation in the classroom, and their findings reveal how relatively small changes can have a very profound impact.

In this episode of TDSIG’s Developod, James, Christian and Tania discuss Race and Queerness in ELT, via their review of three articles from the recently published second volume of the TDAJ (Teacher Development Academic Journal) .  TDSIG held a web carnival in December 2020 on the theme of 'Race and Queerness' and speakers contributed to this edition of TDAJ, a publication which is available to TDS...