Teacher Articles on Teacher Training
The 'Teacher Training' category offers a wealth of articles aimed at enhancing the pedagogical skills of English language teachers and academics. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, from classroom management to innovative teaching methodologies. These resources are designed to support your professional development, enrich your teaching practices, and ultimately, improve your students' learning outcomes.
The advantages and disadvantages of blind observations
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
What are the advantages and disadvantages of "blind observation"- when someone checks everything but the lesson itself?
Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to use drilling when presenting or practicing new language, when preparing for an impending exam or to hammer out bad habits (including choral drills, interactive drills, substitution drills, transformation drills and drilling using flash cards)
The advantages and disadvantages of peer observations
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
What are the advantages and disadvantages of peer observations?
Setting up workshops for teachers
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some tips on how you can make workshops work well
Setting up a TEFL certificate course- Advantages & Disadvantages
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
The pros and cons of setting up a TEFL certificate course, including financial implications, space requirements, time management, staff recruitment, and morale considerations.
Setting up a TEFL certificate course
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Personal experiences of setting up a TEFL certificate course, including choosing a course provider, preparing your teachers, and ensuring adequate resources.
Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to prepare an English conversation lesson for a holistic, structural, four-skills syllabus: an article for new teachers or those unfamiliar with grammar-based syllabus or the PPP model of lesson planning (Present, Practice, Produce).
How to break into teacher training
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Challenges and strategies for teachers aspiring to become teacher trainers, including practical advice on how to gain relevant experience and increase chances of securing a teacher training role.
Realia
Category: Teacher Training
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How and when to use realia, which consists of actual objects or items or facsimiles thereof, which are used in the classroom to illustrate and teach vocabulary or to serve as an aid to facilitate language acquisition and production.