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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.
Webinar for teacher educators: Noticing in mentoring – what do we do with what we notice?
This webinar is aimed at teacher educators who are involved in mentoring colleagues. The presenter, Doina Fleanta, explores the skill of 'noticing’.
Creating creative teachers
In this extract Marisa Constantinides presents activities to develop teachers’ creative thinking skills.
How to be a trainer
In this article Tessa Woodward explores ways to keep on developing as a teacher trainer and looks at how and why we should try to improve our training repertoire.
Making mentoring a meaningful continuing professional development experience
In this webinar recording, Sarah Priestley looks at key steps and effective tools to use when mentoring and supporting teachers.
Non-gendered language: how to teach it, should we teach it?
This webinar recording examines gender-neutral language and discusses why the teaching of gender-neutral language should be an important element of the ELT classroom. It also provides practical examples as to how teachers can integrate teaching of this aspect into their own syllabuses.
How can we monitor teacher potential and performance?
In this article Karen Waterston discusses ideas and tools we can use to monitor teacher progress in the classroom.
Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: Ensuring relevance to context
In this article Claire Ross looks at how teacher educators can ensure that the resources they use are relevant to the context.
Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: Case studies
This article examines two teacher education scenarios, and suggested learning resources for each.
Marisa Constantinides: Creating Creative Teachers
This webinar focuses on helping teachers, rather than learners, with developing their own creative thinking skills so that they, in turn can do a great job with their learners. There are useful ideas for teacher educators and teachers.
Teacher educator self-awareness: Resilience
In this article Tessa Woodward explores the idea of resilience as a feature of self-awareness.