Category Archives: CPD

The thin line between CPD and neurosis

Posted on 02/12/2012 by alexcase

It’s difficult to argue with the fact that remaining critical about your teaching and constantly trying to improve is better than spending years churning out the same old crap. However, being constantly unsatisfied and always looking for things that you have … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD | 3 Comments

The Good Enough Teacher?

Posted on 28/07/2010 by alexcase

Like a parent, there is always more a teacher could do and always the worry that you are not doing enough. For that reason, although the idea of adapting the ideas of the Good Enough Parent to teaching was something … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, TEFL | 3 Comments

The Diving Bell and the Lesson Plan

Posted on 21/03/2010 by alexcase

After surprising myself by getting through three months of walking to work in the record Korean snow injury free, I rather ironically slipped over on a slightly wet wheelchair ramp in the land of go chuui kudasai (please be careful, … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, links, TEFL, TEFL career planning | 7 Comments

Speed mentoring

Posted on 05/03/2010 by alexcase

While listening to a recent Radio 3 programme on Speed Dating with a Thinker, it occured to me that the speed dating format would make for a great break from workshops at a TEFL conference, and also maybe help people find … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, mentoring, Teacher training, TEFL conferences, TEFL workshops | 5 Comments

Guest piece- Why I Mentor

Posted on 19/01/2010 by alexcase

A guest piece by Paula Swenson, long term TEFL.net reviewer and all round star “Mentoring, mysteriously, seems to be something of a hot-button topic. You know the type of thing that causes people to write flaming, emotion –laden replies to … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, mentoring, TEFL | Tagged | 3 Comments

Development, blogs, books and Japan- An interview with Darren Elliott of Lives of Teachers blog

Posted on 09/01/2010 by alexcase

We all seem to be seeing your name around a lot recently. A masterplan to become the next Thornbury/ trying to keep yourself busy while your wife watches Japanese television/ sleep disorder/ other? I think it takes more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge Delta, CELTA, Critical Mass ELT, Eikaiwa, Experience of Language Teaching, first TEFL job, MA TESOL, Teacher training, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL, TEFL blogs, TEFL conferences, TEFL heroes- Rose M Senior, TEFL heroes- Scott Thornbury, TEFL qualifications, TEFL reviews, TEFL villains- Jennifer Jenkins, TEFL workshops | Tagged | 8 Comments

Your DoS’s RMCITE (aka Nick’s Scale of Awesomeness)

Posted on 05/01/2010 by alexcase

A guest piece by Nick Jaworski of Turklish TEFL blog “Do you ever wonder why your Director of Studies likes others and not you? Do you ever get the feeling you’re being measured against some unknown scale? Well, this is … Continue reading →

Posted in CELTA, CPD, ELT management, links, personal learning network, TEFL blogs, TEFL interview questions, TEFL workshops, Twitter | Tagged , | 12 Comments

Become (more of) a Webhead with free online training

Posted on 03/01/2010 by alexcase

with TESOL’s Electronic Village Online project, no less. Registration starts tomorrow and finishes on 10 January, so get there and get signed up. I was just about to sign on for Become a Webhead, Online games for ESL/EFL and/ or … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, Distance learning, Interactive whiteboard, links, online games, Teacher associations, Teacher training, Technology, TESOL | 1 Comment

How to cope with methodology books

Posted on 12/12/2009 by alexcase

Daaren E!!iott’s doubts about reading TEFL books as a way of improving your lessons and my desperate attempt to justify reading books about Korea as a form of CPD instead on building up my arm muscles with Rod Ellis’s The … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, ELT publishing, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Rod Ellis | 1 Comment

The great teaching abroad CPD dilemma

Posted on 10/12/2009 by alexcase

With the limited reading time you have available, should you: a) read up on the culture of the students you are teaching? or b) concentrate on just improving your general TEFL knowledge and techniques? Which will help you more with your classes … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, Cultural differences/ cultural training, Teaching English Abroad | 9 Comments