Category Archives: mentoring

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 →

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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 →

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Can teacher development make you happy?

Posted on 06/07/2009 by alexcase

I’m reading The Developing Teacher by Duncan Foord, the latest title from the always interesting Delta Publishing and it popped into my head that teacher development does provide a way of getting satisfaction and a feeling of progress out of … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, Delta Publishing, ELT publishing, Lesson observations, mentoring, Peer observations, Teacher training, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TESOL | Leave a comment

The TEFL mentoring experiment has begun

Posted on 23/04/2009 by alexcase

It took a while, but after reading Louise Lee’s guest piece calling for an online system of TEFL mentoring, we leapt into action (well, staggered to our feet like we had a makkoli hangover) and a mere 2 months later … Continue reading →

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TEFL mentors needed!

Posted on 19/02/2009 by alexcase

A thought- (and hopefully action-) provoking guest piece by Louise Lee “I sometimes think that jumping out of a plane at 15,000ft was a piece of cake compared to my intensive TEFL course followed by the first four months of … Continue reading →

Posted in CPD, links, mentoring, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, TEFL | Tagged | 5 Comments