My teaching journey has always been a fascinating one - mostly because I never intended to be a teacher in the first place. I've...
27 September, 2015
26 September, 2015
My own teaching career has taken me from Madrid to Manchester and now to Berlin. Here are some of my experiences on the road to being a...
24 September, 2015
My journey towards becoming a classroom teacher began when I spent nineteen years as a community organizer working in low-and-moderate...
15 September, 2015
As World Teaching Day comes round again, I thought I would share a few random thoughts about teaching and how it has influenced my life.
14 September, 2015
I became a teacher probably because I was predisposed to the profession genetically and hereditarily. I was intrinsically motivated to...
9 April, 2015
Topic 1 - Identifying and developing the skills and knowledge a teacher needs, gives one furiously to think, as Hercule Poirot would say.
2 December, 2014
Well, let's start saying that teaching is not the easiest job in the world.
1 December, 2014
Sustainable and long-term development is an ideal that all professional teachers aspire to.
28 November, 2014
An introductory programme to introduce classroom action research for forty teachers including ten ELT teachers was done by me at Nattandiya...
28 November, 2014
I am the Director of Studies at International House Sevastopol, and one of my responsibilities is to plan the programme of Continuing...
28 November, 2014
I recently stopped being a mentor.
27 November, 2014
What exactly is action research?
25 November, 2014
I took a management course and one of the assignments was to write about managing poor performance.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuous teacher development or CPD. How have you managed your development as a teacher in a busy schedule?
21 November, 2014
There are plenty of materials on facilitating and facilitated learning on the web.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuing teacher development or CPD.
20 November, 2014
When I was an academic manager about six years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I had the chance to lead a few different professional development...
19 November, 2014
Nowadays, the teacher must be a facilitator.
18 November, 2014
Without research there is no progress, and with no progress there is no learning.
11 November, 2014
Through the years of teaching and lecturing, I have had a string of colleagues who would ask for my opinion, advice and help.
28 October, 2014
Learning a language is like observing a transformation take place.
19 October, 2014
Although I trained to become a teacher at university when I was younger, I didn't go into the profession straight away.
14 October, 2014
I am usually asked this question which is not easy to be answered.
13 October, 2014
Being a teacher means several wonderful things to me.
2 October, 2014
This collective post for October pulls together insights and comments from our TeachingEnglish associates as a feature for World Teacher's...
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27 September, 2015
My teaching journey has always been a fascinating one - mostly because I never intended to be a teacher in the first place. I've...
26 September, 2015
My own teaching career has taken me from Madrid to Manchester and now to Berlin. Here are some of my experiences on the road to being a...
24 September, 2015
My journey towards becoming a classroom teacher began when I spent nineteen years as a community organizer working in low-and-moderate...
15 September, 2015
As World Teaching Day comes round again, I thought I would share a few random thoughts about teaching and how it has influenced my life.
14 September, 2015
I became a teacher probably because I was predisposed to the profession genetically and hereditarily. I was intrinsically motivated to...
9 April, 2015
Topic 1 - Identifying and developing the skills and knowledge a teacher needs, gives one furiously to think, as Hercule Poirot would say.
2 December, 2014
Well, let's start saying that teaching is not the easiest job in the world.
1 December, 2014
Sustainable and long-term development is an ideal that all professional teachers aspire to.
28 November, 2014
An introductory programme to introduce classroom action research for forty teachers including ten ELT teachers was done by me at Nattandiya...
28 November, 2014
I am the Director of Studies at International House Sevastopol, and one of my responsibilities is to plan the programme of Continuing...
28 November, 2014
I recently stopped being a mentor.
27 November, 2014
What exactly is action research?
25 November, 2014
I took a management course and one of the assignments was to write about managing poor performance.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuous teacher development or CPD. How have you managed your development as a teacher in a busy schedule?
21 November, 2014
There are plenty of materials on facilitating and facilitated learning on the web.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuing teacher development or CPD.
20 November, 2014
When I was an academic manager about six years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I had the chance to lead a few different professional development...
19 November, 2014
Nowadays, the teacher must be a facilitator.
18 November, 2014
Without research there is no progress, and with no progress there is no learning.
11 November, 2014
Through the years of teaching and lecturing, I have had a string of colleagues who would ask for my opinion, advice and help.
28 October, 2014
Learning a language is like observing a transformation take place.
19 October, 2014
Although I trained to become a teacher at university when I was younger, I didn't go into the profession straight away.
14 October, 2014
I am usually asked this question which is not easy to be answered.
13 October, 2014
Being a teacher means several wonderful things to me.
2 October, 2014
This collective post for October pulls together insights and comments from our TeachingEnglish associates as a feature for World Teacher's...
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22 September, 2014
If I were to describe my 2014 so far, in one word, it would be challenging.
27 February, 2014
Rather than one teacher, I am going to write about two teachers that not only inspired me, but who were also partly responsible for me...
2 April, 2008
I was interviewed by the Teaching English Team about my views on teaching and working in India.
19 November, 2014
Nowadays, the teacher must be a facilitator.
21 October, 2018
The profession of the teacher requires continuing our development in order to always become better at what we do. What is the best way to...
14 January, 2014
The average teacher has an impact on nearly 3000 students in their lifetime.
19 December, 2016
Materials writing is a rewarding form of professional development for a teacher.
19 December, 2016
Becoming a teacher trainer is something that many teachers look to do once they have have been teaching for a while and are looking for a...
17 January, 2014
The way the title of this post is phrased seems to imply a built-in assumption that I’m a better teacher and that blogging helps it.
24 January, 2014
How does blogging help you to be a better teacher?
17 January, 2014
Perhaps the quality above all others that makes a good teacher is the ability to reflect on what, how and why you do what you do in the...
18 January, 2014
This is my first blog post on the British Council Teaching English webpage.
17 January, 2014
Going back in history a bit…
21 January, 2014
There is blogging as an internet activity: anybody can create a blog, an online diary, and pour out one’s soul to the whole wide world.
28 February, 2017
Taking responsibility - learning from example
15 January, 2014
Two factors help my non-stop development as a teacher: continuous learning; and sharing what I learned with others.
29 April, 2016
I know that I am very privileged to be the Director of Studies in my first year at an established school, which has one of the best first-...
2 December, 2014
Well, let's start saying that teaching is not the easiest job in the world.
3 March, 2009
Yesterday, as part of my action research project on poetry in the classroom, I invited one of my colleagues into class to observe.
29 April, 2008
I've recently signed up for a course in creative writing at the Open University.
12 December, 2008
I am working as professor of english in an engineering college in Coimbatore and I have designed a syllabus in Technical Communication for...
18 January, 2011
One of the sessions on the British Council's Classroom Language Teacher Programme deals with developing one's confidence as a...
21 September, 2018
This post discusses informal teacher-research as a means to maximize learning in language classrooms.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuing teacher development or CPD.
21 November, 2014
Teacher development. Continuous teacher development or CPD. How have you managed your development as a teacher in a busy schedule?