Kindness Project in ELT (by Pravita Indriati)
February is the month of love, with both Valentine’s Day on the 14th and Random Acts of Kindness Day on the 17th. When most people think of celebrating love, they think of romantic times...
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Christmas in the Trenches, 1914 (by Bob Jones)
Like many other teachers, I like to do Christmas related activities with my students at this time of year. One thing I want them to know is that Christmas is not just about cake...
Teachers: How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking (by David F. Goldberg)
Truth be told, even after being a teacher for over 16 years now and being the center of attention while talking to numerous, large groups of students at the front of the class on...
It’s time to move: Energy breaks for the language classroom (by Marc Helgesen)
Human beings are not designed to sit still all day. Thousands of years ago, on the plains of the Serengeti in Africa, people walked 10-20 kilometers every day (Medina, 2014). It has only been...
Learning Names (by Marc Helgesen)
Learning students’ names is hard. And I’m not particularly good at it. And my teaching situation makes it challenging. My students have maybe 20 teachers. Some of these teachers are young. Some are old. Many...
Breaking the Ice Everyday (by Mark Kulek)
I work in a small English conversation school for children. At the beginning of each class, I have my students sit on the floor in a semicircle facing me. I am also seated on...
From This Teacher’s Daughter
The ‘From the Teacher’s Family’ issue was recently published on the iTDi blog with posts from Rose Bard, Matt Shannon, and Ayat Tawel. These authors share posts about how being a teacher affects our families and...
Remembering
I’m in the process of updating old posts to work with a new blog template, which has been quite a walk down memory lane. Hopefully, when I’ve finished, it will be easier for readers...
Starting a YouTube Channel (by Mark Kulek)
Barbara: Why did you decide to start a YouTube channel? Mark: I started my YouTube channel so that my students could practice English at home. I also wanted my students’s parents to see what...
Experimental Practice: My personal Journey (by Jennie Wright)
There is a brilliant quote about professional development which I always carry with me from Scrivener’s book Learning Teaching: “Twenty years’ experience can become no more than two years’ experience repeated ten times over” (1994,...
Traveling the experimental practice road (by Christina Rebuffet-Broadus)
There comes a point in every TEFL teacher’s life when we reach a fork in the road. We begin asking ourselves questions: Should I start looking for ‘a real job’? Where is my career...
