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Explore expert articles for teacher educators covering the latest developments in English language education and teacher training. Stay informed and support your professional practice with practical insights based on current research and evidence-based approaches from around the world.
Teacher educator self-awareness: Empathy
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of empathy as a feature of self-awareness.
Teacher educator self-awareness: Interactivity
In this article Tessa Woodward discusses interactivity, defined as our capacity to seek communication and engagement with each other and to create environments that foster successful communication.
Teacher educator self-awareness: Conscientiousness
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of conscientiousness as a feature of self-awareness.
Teacher educator self-awareness: Cultivating openness
In this article Tessa Woodward explores openness as a feature of self-awareness and provides ideas on how to work on our ability to be open.
Teacher educator self-awareness
Tessa Woodward gives an introduction to teacher educator self-awareness and suggests some practical ways we can develop it.
Networking: a few simple steps
Kirsten Holt discusses three key stages to networking through a series of simple steps and tips to help the uninitiated develop their networking skills.
Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?
Experienced teachers sometimes ask themselves the question, 'Am I ready to be a teacher trainer?'
Setting up a research circle
This step-by-step task looks at how to set up a research circle with colleagues.
Demonstrating effective teaching behaviour
How can being an effective teacher help you to become an effective teacher educator? In this article we explore this idea and suggest how you might develop in this area.
How to help teachers develop new practices in the classroom
In this article Karen Waterston discusses the importance of analysing exactly what is going on in the classroom, in order to help teachers adopt new teaching practices and techniques.