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Earn your Trinity TESOL certificate at QUALIFY
There are several reasons to earn your Trinity TESOL certificate at QUALIFY
With a Trinity CertTESOL, you can teach anywhere
It’s easy to apply for a Trinity CertTESOL course at QUALIFY
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Improve your Teaching and Get Qualified at ACE TEFL
ACE TEFL is a centre for teachers of English as a foreign language: a place where teachers can learn, develop and get qualified. ACE TEFL was founded in January 2021 by George Vassilakis and Alexan...
Read MoreLet’s talk about burning…. ourselves out!
According to longitudinal studies conducted by Arvidsson et al. (2019), Skaalivik and Skaalvik (2010), Jacobson (2016) and Brouwers and Tomic (1999) teachers are more likely to experience burnou...
Teacher development, teacher learning
The Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1996) believed that just like a lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame, teachers can never truly teach un...
PeopleCert signs multi-year contract with Transport for London, providing English Language Tests for Licensed Private Hire Drivers across London
Starting in 2021, PeopleCert will provide English language exams to individuals wanting to obtain a Private Hire Driver’s License with Transport for London.
London, United Kingdom: PeopleCert,...
Scholarships for Greek Citizens
Recruitment for all educational exchange programs is based on open, and fair national competition, and on individual merit and academic excellence. Transparency in the selection process is assured t...
Goodbye to a very special person
What a painful duty it is to have to find the words to say goodbye to an acclaimed colleague, a brother in arms, a bosom friend! How can one start to list all those things that made him so good a te...
The Child and the Screen: What now?
A year ago I wrote a series of articles called ‘The Child and the Box’. They were about the use of technology in education and my educational decision to stop working with any ed tools that requi...
THE 1ST QLS ONLINE BOOK CLUB COMPETITION 2021
The inaugural QLS Online Book Club Competition took place on Saturday 17 April 2021, to celebrate World Book Day. More than 550 students from across Greece participated in 5 sessions according t...
2021 ELT Excellence Awards winners announced
The evaluation process for the 2021 ELT Excellence Awards has been concluded by this year's judging committee. It was a long and difficult process as the number of entries surpassed not only last ye...
Education
Scott Thornbury talks about commercially produced coursebooks and neoliberalism in education
Scott Thorbury is a teacher and teacher educator, with over 30 years’ experience in English language teaching, and an MA from the University of Reading. His previous experience includes teaching and...
Read MoreROGER HOUSE TALKS TO ELT NEWS: FROM JOURNALISM TO ELT, FROM TEACHER TRAINING TO MATERIALS WRITING
Roger House has been involved in ELT for over thirty years as a teacher, trainer and author. He is a former chairperson of TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece and an active member of TESOL Greec...
Read MoreTeacher Development: Educational Trend or Necessity?
Teacher educators must now, more than ever, direct learning beyond mastery of core subjects to improve students’ 21st-century skills and make education more responsive to the challenges of a knowled...
Read MoreKnowledge-Based Leadership in Language Education
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I ...
Read MoreLifelong Learning and Educators: Do We Really Need to Pursue Further Studies?
‘Accomplished’ is a word used most often than not to describe fulfillment or the realization of one’s goals. Although the maximum potential reached in any endeavor is clearly of a subjective perspec...
Read MoreAdult Learning: Pedagogy and andragogy
Learning can be both an emotional and intellectual process. Teaching–learning process lasts the entire life span of each individual. Adult learning allows an adult to acquire, renew, upgrade, or co...
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