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 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”

A Term of ELT Events

The first in the series of planned posts on this rejuvenated blog is an overview of the last couple of months in ELT from my perspective, what’s being going on (and therefore, what’s been keeping me from posting!). Bilbao It feels like ‘Bridging the North’ has been a staple of the Spanish ELT event calendarContinue reading “A Term of ELT Events”