Personal Reflections – Chris Richards ELT

What I’ve learned from…examining

Mathematics exam paper with handwritten solutions, red markings, and score 8 out of 10

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 markContinue reading “What I’ve learned from…examining”

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. IContinue reading “What I’ve learned from…editing ELT Research”

Stori’r Iaith

Inspired by the recent S4C Series, I decided that I wanted to write my (Welsh) language story and explain my relationship with the language. It’s the first time I’ve written something for public consumption in Welsh, so it’ll be with some trepidation (and awareness that my written Welsh is far from perfect) that I clickContinue reading “Stori’r Iaith”