Last week, I was inducting some new teachers into our school: preparing them for their teaching career for the year ahead. We looked at various areas about teaching: classroom management, get to know you activities, games in the classroom, etc. The final area we looked at was about continuing professional development (CPD). We looked at formal and peer observations, attending workshops, contributing to workshops as well as blogging. All teachers with varying years of experience, including a teacher who had just completed her CELTA (or equivalent), had only come across the mainstream websites related to English language teaching (TEFL.com, Dave’s ESL Cafe or Teaching English) yet had not really considered blogging a tool for CPD.
Thank you for sharing the trial lesson. I was impressed by your patience and the amount of time you let…
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Thanks for the suggestions! Much appreciated.
I teach on Preply and try to teach as little as possible there. I gave about 5-6 trial lessons and…
Hi Martin, I'm glad to have happened upon your blog. I've been teaching EFL abroad for 5 years and, having…