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Professional Development

Are you looking for an simple way to keep up your professional development as a teacher? Teacher professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators. It's one way teachers can improve their skills and, in turn, boost student outcomes. Learning can take place in formal or informal settings.

Teacher Collaboration Part B; why is it so hard to work together?

Just be kind… Some of you might remember my first article about teacher collaboration, some of you might not; it doesn’t really matter. My point is a different one. I am not sure if this happens in all fields or only with teachers. But let’s face it; we are having trouble or struggling to truly and meaningfully collaborate. Collaboration is defined as...

Doctors specialize, shouldn’t you as an English teacher?

In my experience of 32 years in the ELT trade I have seen and worked in most sectors and I have one thing to say: it’s about time that the majority of EFL teachers who teach general English move on to develop their career in teaching ESP, Business English, modern Greek or even becoming a translator. By Maria Alafogianni, A simple EFL teacher...

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 Alexander Makarios, two teacher educators with many years of experience of working with teachers in various contexts and capacities. ACE TEFL offers a range of...

Communication can change your… colours

    I bet you have all listened to this Cyndi Lauper song. Quite cheesy I would say as seeing the true colours of someone could lead not to love but to a million different emotions to start with. Nevertheless, the connection between colours and personality traits is quite interesting and easily digested when referring to human psychology. Lately, I am...

Life-long learning -those were the days…

Author: ANASTASIA SPYROPOULOU
  It’s been a school year like no other. Τhere was a moment, last spring, when every parent suddenly realized how deeply their lives and livelihoods depended on an institution too often in the background and taken for granted: school. We hadn’t realized as a society how much we needed schools until they were closed. With almost no notice, adults and...

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 unless they are learning themselves. As a child Tagore abhorred formal education and the subject he disliked the most was English. Later he wrote that “The main...

Teacher well-being - ‘Teacher what?’

  ..you think to yourself when you see this title and you smile ironically but you start reading the article because you still want to -slash- need to think positively! Let’s try to describe what a teacher’s (ir)regular day looks like: It’s Thursday afternoon and you’re heading to work. You have two or three different classes to teach today and you won’t...