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Teacher of English/Education Researcher

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What I’ve learned from…examining

Continuing the theme, here is the next post on my professional learning. Nothing in this post should be understood as promoting, endorsing or otherwise commenting on any specific examination board or specification. These are thoughts on how examining, in general, has improved my practice as a teacher. Firstly, the mark scheme is supreme. The mark…

What I’ve learned from…editing ELT Research

I’ve recently hung up my virtual red pencil editing for ReSIG’s ELT Research after working on four issues as an editor and bringing two of them to fruition as the Lead Editor. Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way: There’s some really interesting classroom research going on around the world. I…

A teacher who made me feel seen…

At yesterday’s closing plenary at TESOL Spain, Stefania Balloto asked us to reflect on a teacher who made us feel seen and how that made us feel. I immediately knew who that was. My mind was taken back to a conversation in my third year at university with a lecturer who told me that she…

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