Why I love Teachers 2014
A few years ago I wrote a simple little post about the reasons I love Teachers. Since then, I’ve had a chance to work with some amazing Teachers through the International Teacher Development Institute....
Category: Personal Learning Network
Help! I just got another new student!
What happens when a new student enters your class at a very different level than the students who are already there? That’s the question a teacher would like to ask Villagers (that’s you!). Have you...
Boisterous Boys and Bored Girls
I had a recent reminder of the power behind this blog’s simple motto: We’re better when we work together. To get some guidance in preparing for an upcoming webinar about working with large, small,...
Little teacher me in the big ELT World (by Yitzha Sarwono)
Note from Barb: I know that attending an international conference is a major decision for teachers — big conferences tend to require a serious investment of both time and money. Since some of you...
The Myth of the Perfect Teacher
Note: This post was originally published on June 26, 2012. On October 14th, I did a presentation at JALT 2012 in Hamamatsu with Chuck Sandy and Ozge Karaoglu, during which participants created this prezi....
The floor is ours!
TeachMeet is a life-changing experience. Those who have never taken part in one won’t understand what I’m talking about; those who have, are most probably hooked for life. To describe it briefly, TeachMeet is...
What is a PLN, anyway?
A good friend (and a great teacher) e-mailed me after my last post. “Great links,” she said. “But what’s a PLN?” A good reminder about why I try to avoid acronyms and jargon in...
Come join the Electronic Village Online (by Carla Arena)
I’m here to tell you about how a simple acronym – EVO – changed my life and was a true turning point in my professional development. When I joined the Electronic Village Online for...
Teacher Development 2.0 (by Steven Herder)
I’ve always believed in the power of people to be able to come together to create something much bigger than any one of them individually. Here is a story about a bunch of teachers...
Fun, in practice
At the end of January, I wrote a post inspired by Volkswagen’s Fun Theory competition. (If you missed the original post, it’s here: The Fun Theory in Language Learning) As often happens, as soon...
