If you are an English-medium teacher working in a school, international university or IB / GCSE programme, your classroom is your own ...

In the wake of lockdowns, school and university closures, and international students returning to their countries to be with their...

If you have an initial qualification in TESOL and a couple of years of experience in the classroom, you may be wondering where to go next...

No matter what you teach, student engagement is a major challenge in every classroom. Learning increases when students are engaged

In order to facilitate improvements in teaching which continue to have an effect after a visiting trainer leaves the building, we need to ta

Cognitive approaches to language learning work under the assumption that the more deeply learners think about what they are learning

Any teacher working towards assessments or barrier tests experiences the familiar pressure to get through syllabus content so that their...

Any initial teacher training qualification in TESOL will rightly stress the importance of clear lesson structure for language lessons....

Of the many excellent talks, presentations and workshops held at IATEFL 2019 last week, one theme was noticeable in anything connected with

Imagine you were retraining as a teacher of Mandarin to Speakers of Other Languages (MSOL), to meet the growing international demand for...

Lesson observations are an integral part of most teacher education courses for good reason; we can learn an enormous amount by stepping...

So you’ve finished your teacher training course, and are ready to go out into the world of teaching. Maybe you have a job lined up, maybe...

In-depth, lasting Continuous Professional Development activity is often seen as either a luxury or a chore for public school teachers, as...

Why do we focus on the behaviour of teachers during ‘official’ classroom observations? Is there an alternative way that is more in line...

Teacher development in any field can only work if teachers themselves take ownership over how they manage their own development plans....

Having looked at how to set up a sustainable teacher development project, how can we ensure that what is delivered in face-to-face...

Preparing the soil - TESOL qualifications tend to be seen as discrete products leading to fixed outcomes