Ever feel annoyed at how hard it is to see what’s actually ON a blog, in a straightforward way? Here’s a clickable index to the main content so far. Please bear in mind that this has to be manually updated, so there may be a time lag in adding recent posts to this page. If you have suggestions for better ways to manage and categorise this, please let us know in the comments 🙂
Applied Linguistics
Classroom Management
Course design and materials
English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
Issues
- Native speakerism in ELT in Australasia (2016)
- Discrimination against non-native English teachers
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PARSNIPs: Controversial topics in the English language classroom
Language
- Why are we still teaching grammar the wrong way? (follow-up to Scott Thornbury’s workshop)
- Lessons to go: Passive Quiz by Peter Guylay
Literacy
Management
- Dealing with students as ‘clients’
- Setting up and running effective peer observation programs
- ‘Setting up a peer observation scheme’ by Andy Hockley
- Using L1 in the classroom
- Management issues
- Perspectives on developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD (Part 1)
- Perspectives on developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD (Part 2)
- Teachers as Team Members: How to Add Value
- Supporting Teachers New to the ELT Profession
- What if…? How prepared are you / can you be?
- The two cultures in Australian ELICOS
Motivation
- Tips and techniques to motivate your students
- Learner Autonomy, with Phil Benson
- Teacher motivation & recharging your batteries
Professional Development
- 5 things to remember when covering a class at the last minute
- 5 things to remember when listening to colleagues complain in the office
- Dream jobs: where do we TEFLers dream of ending up?
- The first ever MeetELT: A fresh take on PD for busy teachers
- What do teachers want from a network?
- Workshop: Making PLNs work for you
- Project Hope – Volunteer teaching in Palestine
- IATEFL 2014 wrap-up by James Pengelley
- Professional development – that’s what I want!
- Writers wanted!
- Teachers as Team Members: How to Add Value
- Conferences and Presenting
- Reflective Practice: Benefits, Tips, Feedback
- 2017 Conference/PD Swapshop
- Conference and Networking Tips
- Keeping the momentum of PD going – post-conferences 2018 (chat)
- Ramblings of an ELT rambler (EAConf 2018, CLESOL 2018, Q&A Teaching Special)See also our Professional Development page
Pronunciation
Skills
- What are we really teaching when we ‘teach listening’?
- Improving students’ speaking confidence
- Motivating General English students to write
- Extensive reading
- Fluency Development through Extensive Reading
- Using phonics in the adult learning context
- Beyond ‘testing’ receptive skills
- Topics for speaking and writing activities and tasks
- Fluency development through extensive reading
- Teaching speaking: Speaking sub-skills and effective feedback
- Extensive listening (Twitter chat)
Teachers
- Who looks after the teacher? What influences our well-being?
- Future-proofing your career in TESOL
- Teacher motivation & recharging your batteries
- Work and rights in Australia (2017)
Teaching/learning approaches
- Demand High ELT Part 1
- Demand High ELT Part 2
- Demand High ELT Part 3
- Demand High ELT Chat Summary
- Managing mixed-ability classes
- Task-based learning
- Pseudoscience and neuromyths
- Materials-light teaching
- Helping high level/fluent users
Technology
- Experiences with technology in the classroom
- Edtech: The mouse that roared? by Scott Thornbury
- “What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?” (edtech chat summary Part 1)
- “Hype, hope, and what are we actually meant to do with it all???” – Attitudes to edtech (edtech chat summary Part 2)
- “There’s a time and a place…” (edtech chat summary Part 3)
- The future of education technology – is resistance futile? (edtech chat summary Part 4)
- The student data blueprint: We’re moving forward but do we know where we’re going?
- Competition: How to engage learners online
- How to engage language learners online (chat)
Twitter & social media for teachers
- How to write a Twitter chat summary
- See ‘How to’ and ‘Downloads’ for more Twitter tips
- Mixed feelings about Twitter? And other social media questions
